"dark memory" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe a particularly unpleasant recall of an event, such as "He had a dark memory of the accident that kept him from ever driving again."
But for the candidate himself, those two weeks in 1988 remain a dark memory.
Whatever happens in Dublin, Quins can finally consign the dark memory of Bloodgate to the history books.
Mentioning him can still cause discomfort in Russian academic circles, where his fate is a dark memory.
It was as if Arthur was a name no longer to be mentioned; a dark memory best left unsaid, for fear that the bad old times be evoked.
The last time French minds were split between the football and the Tour was 2000, in what now seems like a different world: it was the heyday of Zinedine Zidane and company, Lance Armstrong was beginning the second year of his dominant if ultimately provisional reign and terrorism was largely a dark memory, anything but a threat to the world's greatest cycle race.
Ronan O'Gara calls it a "pretty dark memory" while Duncan McRae, the Australian back who punched his way into the Lions bestiary with a combination that might have won him a WBC title, has long accepted that he went just a little over the top in assaulting his Irish rival.
Too many dark memories haunt him in Mbekweni.
It unleashed dark memories of her own experiences, she said.
Obviously, the murder case featured in Serial and the dark memories of "Nick" are different entities.
Her meows are full-throated and heartfelt, sparked perhaps by dark memories of human abuse.
They would not conjure the dark memories of the US's 2004 Athens failures.
