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The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
Scary Quotes. “Sometimes dead is better.”. — Stephen King, “Pet Sematary”. “I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.”. — Anne Rice, “Interview with the ...
Trypophobia is an aversion to the sight of repetitive patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps. [3] [4] [5] It is not officially recognized as a mental disorder, but may be diagnosed as a specific phobia if excessive fear and distress occur. [1] [4] Most affected people experience mainly disgust when they see trypophobic imagery. [4]
This is a list of urban legends. An urban legend, myth, or tale is a modern genre of folklore. It often consists of fictional stories associated with the macabre, superstitions, ghosts, demons, cryptids, extraterrestrials, creepypasta, and other fear generating narrative elements. Urban legends are often rooted in local history and popular ...
Cursed image. A cursed image refers to a picture (usually a photograph) that is perceived as mysterious or disturbing due to its content, poor quality, or a combination of the two. A cursed image is intended to make a person question the reason for the image's existence in the first place. The term was coined on social media in 2015 and ...
Pareidolia ( / ˌpærɪˈdoʊliə, ˌpɛər -/; [1] also US: / ˌpɛəraɪ -/) [2] is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia . Common examples include perceived images of ...
Zalgo text. Zalgo text, also known as cursed text or glitch text due to the nature of its use, is digital text that has been modified with numerous combining characters, Unicode symbols used to add diacritics above or below letters, to appear frightening or glitchy . Named for a 2004 Internet creepypasta story that ascribes it to the influence ...
Published. August 2, 1984. In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories is a collection of horror stories, poems and urban legends retold for children by Alvin Schwartz and illustrator Dirk Zimmer. It was published as part of the I Can Read! series in 1984. In 2017 the book was re-released with illustrations by Spanish freelance illustrator ...