The Dark may refer to:

• Darkness, the absence of light

Radio, film and television

• "The Dark", a 1937 episode of the radio drama Lights Out
  • recreated on the 1962 Arch Oboler album Drop Dead! An Exercise in Horror
• The Dark (1979 film), science fiction horror film directed by John Cardos
• The Dark, a 1993 film featuring Jaimz Woolvett
• The Dark (2005 film), a British-German horror film starring Sean Bean
• The Dark (2018 film), an Austrian horror film

Literature

• The Dark (Curley novel), a 2003 novel by Marianne Curley
• The Dark (Herbert novel), a 1980 novel by James Herbert
• The Dark (McGahern novel), a 1965 novel by John McGahern
• The Dark (magazine), a magazine published by Sean Wallace
• The Dark, a series of comics published in the 1990s by Continüm Comics
• The Dark, a play by Charlotte Jones

Music

• The Dark (Guy Clark album), 2002
• The Dark (Metal Church album)
• "The Dark", a song by Caro Emerald from the EP Emerald Island
• "The Dark", a song featured on the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's album Beethoven's Last Night
• "The Dark", a song by Simon Curtis featuring Jay-Z from 8Bit Heart
• "The Dark", a punk band from London who recorded with Fresh Records

Other uses

• The Dark (Magic: The Gathering), an expansion card set for the game Magic: The Gathering
• The Dark, a fictional character in the role-playing game Villains and Vigilantes; basis for the comics series (see above)
• Brendan Hughes or "The Dark" (1948–2008), Irish republican