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* ''[[Coraline (novel)|Coraline]]'', by [[Neil Gaiman]], and the film adaptation also by Henry Selick.
** [[Word of God|According to Gaiman]], at least, adults find it much scarier than children do, because children tend not to pick up on the implied [[Adult Fear
* ''[[Goosebumps]]''.
** Taken quite literally with the story ''Vampire Breath'': one of the elder vampires wore fanged dentures because he had no teeth.
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* ''[[Super Mario]]'': The entire series has places with ghosts (especially spherical ones called Boos). Most of these are in haunted houses, but there are also places such as [[Paper Mario (franchise)|a haunted forest]], [[Super Mario RPG|a sewer system]], and at least two [[Super Mario RPG|sunken]] [[Super Mario World (video game)|ships]]. Bowser is also known to reside in a gothic castle at the end of most games. [[Luigi's Mansion]] revolves around this trope from beginning to end.
** According to [[Chuggaaconroy]], this is the reason a hunter ghost was cut from [[Luigi's Mansion]]; he would have been the only {explicitly} homicidal ghost and was deemed too scary.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Pokémon]]'': Certain Pokedex entries in the series (especially about Ghost Pokemon) are this trope. For example, Gengar likes to imitate people's shadows under a full moon, and then laugh at their fright, Shuppet was a doll who seeks revenge on the child who disowned it, Dusclops traps anyone who looks into its eye into a void, and so on. Of course, none of this actually happens in-game.
* ''[[Sonic Heroes]]'': The Hang Castle and Mystic Mansion zones.
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* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' has lots of very well done instances of kiddy horror.
** The poster boy for
** The keeper of the library in the desert is just a very large owl, that's actually very polite and friendly. But it's clearly not a mere mortal creature and it's made very clear that one should not abuse its trust. And when it eventually gets angry, things turn really scary.
** The [[Weird Moon|Blood Red Moon]] during the season 1 finale.
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** And stay alive.
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' did this on occasion, such as when Raven pulled Dr. Light into some sort of dark vortex within her cloak, and when he came out he was curled up in the fetal position muttering, "S-so cold. Make it stop. Please make it stop."
** The episode "Haunted" also ranks up there as one of the creepiest pieces of [[Western Animation]] targeted towards kids. They took Slade, a villain who's already creepy in his own right, and left the audience constantly unsure whether he was [[Back
* While not borderline scary (at least for the older folks), Danny entering the [[Phantom Zone|Ghost Zone]] for the first time in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' was deliberately given an atmospheric, spooky, and naturally ''ghoulish'' feel to it; they were really emphasizing just how vastly different this world is compared to Earth. There's always something disturbing ''when numerous skeletons pop out of graves and tries to grab onto you''.
** On the other hand, [[Vain Sorceress|Spectra]] and [[Psycho for Hire|Dark Danny]] aren't "defanged" in the least.
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