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* In Dorothy Canfield Fisher's short story "Sex Education" a town preacher lurks in a cornfield waiting to jump and rape any young girl dumb enough to wander nearby. [[It Gets Worse]]: It's heavily implied by the female characters that a number of other men in their town have similarly questionable hobbies, also involving young girls and cornfields.

* In ''[[The Stand]]'', a number of characters dream about being chased through a cornfield by the Dark Man.

* In ''[[The Lovely Bones]]'', Susie is [[Short Cuts Make Long Delays|cutting through]] a cornfield on her way home from school when a neighbor lures her into a secret underground room, rapes her and kills her.

* The Jerome Bixby short story "[[It's a Good Life]]", where the [[Reality Warper]] Anthony Fremont literally sends people who do anything he doesn't like to the cornfield behind his family's home. Served as the basis for a memorable ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode.

* [[Stephen King]]'s short story ''[[Children of the Corn]]'' served as [[In Name Only|loose inspiration]] for an endless string of movies which are probably the example that a lot of people remember, and contributes a great deal to cornfields being associated with creepiness. The page quote above, from the original story, gives an example.

 

* The series finale of ''[[Carnivale]]'' has the climax take place in a cornfield, with Brother Justin chasing after Ben with a [[Sinister Scythe|scythe]], no less.

* An episode of ''The Middle'' had the teenaged son lose his little brother in a cornfield maze, and he kept running into the creepy [[Crusty Caretaker|caretaker]] who told him about how he had lost his own little brother in a cornfield all those years ago.

* The ''[[Bones]]'' episode "Mummy in the Maze".

 

* [[Sufjan Stevens]]' ''Illinois'' album has a short track about a [[Real Life]] corn maze, titled "[[Drone of Dread|A Conjunction of Drones]] Simulating the Way in Which Sufjan Stevens Has an Existential Crisis in the Great Godfrey Maze".

 

* In ''[[Batman Doom]]'', one such maze pops up near the beginning of the level with the Scarecrow boss fight. It's full of gangsters and even spotting the passages is a problem (the automap helps). Once you're past this part, the rest of the level is thankfully free of confusing view-obfuscating maize.

 

* The [[Halloween Episode|Halloween-themed]] ''[[Skin Deep]]'' story "The One-Eyed Bear" centers around a road trip to an annual haunted corn maze attraction in Verona, MO referred to, appropriately enough, as [https://web.archive.org/web/20130110190811/http://www.themaize.com/sites.php?ID=&username=moverona The MAiZE]. (See [[Real Life]], below.) In keeping with getting lost, they stumble onto the attraction while fleeing from a nightmare and a [[Our Demons Are Different|demon]], only to be menaced by a [[Friday the 13th|hockey-mask-wearing, chainsaw wielding maniac]] {{spoiler|who is actually both a performer in the haunted maze and a bugbear in human guise}}.

 

 

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