![]() ![]() An episode from the '90s version of The Outer Limits featured not-Mulder and not-Scully investigating missing children for this reason.The kid's attempt to use this fact to his advantage ended very very badly. ![]() The '80s Twilight Zone revival did an episode with a "Shadow Man" who lived under a kid's bed when he wasn't out terrorizing the neighborhood.Seuss' There's A Wocket In My Pocket, there is the Vug under the rug, pictured only as a shadowy lump beneath the aforementioned carpet. Fortunately, the titular wizard detective goes fwoosh right back. In The Dresden Files, many things go bump in the night.Candyman from the eponymous movie and the Clive Barker novella which inspired it he's actually summoned the same way as Bloody Mary.In the Discworld novels, bogeymen are a species of creature which like to hide behind doors or under beds, and can be defeated with the knowledge that they don't know anything under a blanket exists.Boggarts in the Harry Potter books like to hide under beds, closets, and cupboards.A Donald Duck story featured pretty much exactly the same plot, except it didn't take place in space but on an island where Scrooge McDuck wanted to build a vacation center.They finally survive by, yes, hiding under the blankets on their bunks. Robert Sheckley's scifi short Ghost V is about two troubleshooters hired to investigate the bizarre events on a far-off planet they belatedly realize that the planet brings your subconscious imaginings to life, and so they have to spend the entire return trip to Earth battling the bogeymen of their shared childhood.In several of King's works, the term "allamagoosalum" is applied to these types of creatures.Also appears in 'Salem's Lot, where the master vampire takes the appearance of one of the characters' childhood bogeyman.Ditto with The Tommyknockers, although they're rather different from the legends.King seems to really like this trope it also makes an appearance in The Langoliers, where the titular monsters begin as a boogieman story but turn out to be very real.(Or rather what he thinks is his psychologist.) This trope is also visited in a subplot in King's novel Cujo. Stephen King did a short story called The Bogeyman (published in the collection Night Shift) about a grown-up who tells his psychologist about the closet-dwelling entity which killed his children, one by one.depicts this general situation from the monsters' point of view. Speaking of Hellboy, there's a quote from the first film:.As Prince Nuada puts it: "I will show you why you once feared the dark." Tooth Fairies are given a similiar treatment in Hellboy II.The movie Darkness Falls transforms the otherwise innocuous childhood mythological figure of the Toothfairy into one town's bogeyman, and one man's life-long nightmare.Briefly shows up in The Monster Squad, when the Mummy is hiding in one kid's closet.The (comedic) film Little Monsters is about a young boy getting dragged into the monster-filled world under his bed.The compulsory Touch of the Monster moment is not with a woman but a man! The movie Monster in the Closet is a comedic riff on this idea, in which it is revealed that the indestructible titular entity needs closets to survive, and the only way to kill it is to destroy every closet in the world.Phil Foglio's XXXenophile had a couple of adult twin sisters find out there really is a monster under their bed listening to their fun-and then have a threesome with it.Subverted in Supernatural Law the monster under the bed is inoffensive and the kid is a horrible brat who took a baseball bat to it.Examples of Things That Go Bump in the Night include: Comic Books ![]()
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