?Names for the things that should not have them. Ghosts, demons, haunted houses, cryptids, cursed objects and the teams who chase them — each one arriving with a legend attached. Free for your stories, games and videos.
Pick a kind and summon. The archive has plenty to spare.
The best horror names are almost ordinary. "Mercy Ashgrove" unsettles because it sounds like a real person on a real headstone; "Lord Skullthirst" does not, because nobody was ever christened that. Pair a plain, period-correct human name with one specific, unexplained detail — a missing finger, a locked nursery, a count that never finishes — and the mind fills the rest in on its own.
Every name and legend generated here is free to use, including commercially. Take them for tabletop campaigns, horror shorts, indie games, creepypasta, or the ghost tour you are writing for your own town. If a legend line sparks something, keep pulling that thread — it was written to be a first sentence, not a last one.
Yes, completely. Generate as many names as you like with no account and no payment.
Yes. Names generated here are yours to use in fiction, tabletop campaigns, horror games, videos, or anything else, commercially or otherwise. No credit required, though it is always welcome.
Six kinds: restless ghosts, demons and infernal names, haunted houses and locations, cryptids, cursed objects, and paranormal investigation teams. Each comes with a one-line legend you can build on.
No. Every name here is invented for fiction. Nothing on this page is drawn from grimoires, and generating a name summons nothing.
There is something older than these instruments waiting in the archive. GHOST tells the story your reading belongs to — in his own voice.
Enter the Nexus — meet GHOSTFree to try. No account needed to use the tools on this page.
GHOST · Nexus is a work of fiction made for entertainment. Nothing here detects real paranormal activity — or does it?