Darkside New Jersey Art & Oddities Market is a festival experience held at the New Jersey Convention & Expo Center in Edison, NJ, celebrating all things weird, eerie and macabre.

Featuring over 150+ unique vendors offering oddities, curiosities, dark artwork, housewares, accessories, clothing, and more. Darkside NJ also hosts live tattooing and piercing, Zombie Portraits by Life of Agony bass Player & Artist of the New Beetlejuice Coloring Books, Alan Robert, appearances from TV’s The Ghosthunters Steve Gonsalves & Dave Tango, taxidermy classes featuring Butterly Pinning and Owl Pellet Dissection and Live Music.

The event also hosts the official Darkside New Jersey Film Festival featuring dozens of films from local filmmakers along with an appearance by award-winning cult movie director and co-founder of Oingo Boingo, Richard Elfman.

Guests can also delve into Speaking Panels led by Professional Morticians on the art of Cadaver Restorative Makeup, explore legends like the Jersey Devil with the Editors of Weird NJ, Dance your dark heart away, and experience a Dark Wave Silent Rave pulsing with goth, metal, and emo beats. With burlesque, pole dancing, and sideshow performances such as contortion, fire breathing, foot archery, bed of nails, and more like the area’s finest food trucks, Darkside NJ is a must for fans of the Weird, Odd, Curious & Macabre.

The Darkside New Jersey Art & Oddities Market is produced by the group behind The Trenton Punk Rock Flea Market.