>>3022896Okay well that's the root of scotophobia, the fear of the dark. Unease about what you can't see.
If you want to simplify extremely the motive for most of these, it's simply the conveyance of that feeling you get driving really secluded roads alone during Witching Hours.
Conceptually theres very little relation, but aesthetically, I'm drawing a bit from Shiga Lieko's Rasen Kaigan, particularly Portrait of Cultivation (pic related)