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* ''[[Max Payne 2]]'': The [[Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book|crayon drawings]] seen in Part 1's Prologue, {{spoiler|which depict part of the first game's story (Max's wife and baby are killed)}}, are definitely the work of a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant, even if we don't know how anyone else reacts to them.

* In ''[[Bad Mojo]]'', we see a childhood drawing done by protagonist Roger Samms with a note from his teacher attached commenting to the effect that "This boy is clearly disturbed". Said drawing is obviously inspired by Roger's issues with his mother's [[Death by Childbirth]], as it consists of a newborn baby smirking evilly as he stabs his mother to death, and an animated version plays as you approach, accompanied by creepy music.

** Fado from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time]]''. (Uh, [http://zeldawiki.org/images/8/8f/Fadooot.png this kid]. Her name's [[All There in the Manual]]. Apparently, no connection to the [[Name's the Same|two later Fados]].) When you meet her in the Lost Woods after the [[Time Skip]], she's taken a turn for the creepy. "That guy isn't here anymore. Anybody who comes into the forest will be lost. Everybody will become a Stalfos. Everybody, Stalfos. So, he's not here anymore. Only his saw is left. Hee hee." ... "Heh heh heh. Are you going to be... too? Heh heh!"

** It's entirely possible that she simply went mad from watching all her childhood friends turn into undead, especially considering that they all are significantly older than they look.

** And now [[He's Dead, Jim]]. :(

* [[Nursery Rhyme]]s. "Rock A'bye Baby" is probably the worst.

** [[Shel Silverstein]] addressed the scariness of "Rock A'bye Baby" in [http://www.dictionary-quotes.com/rockabye-baby-in-the-treetopbrdont-you-know-a-treetopbris-no-safe-place-to-rockbrand-who-put-you-up-therebrand-your-cradle-toobrbabybri/ this poem].

** And of course, "It's Raining, It's Pouring", featuring an old man who bumped his head and didn't get up in the morning.

** ''Humpty Dumpty'' is another horrifying example. People often think of Humpty Dumpty as an egg, but there's absolutely nothing in the rhyme that indicates this. That makes the idea that after his fall, "all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again" all the more sinister.

*** Not necessarily, as it's believed that ''Humpty Dumpty'' [http://www.rhymes.org.uk/humpty_dumpty.htm is about a large cannon], which was mounted on top of a wall in Colchester during the English Civil War. The wall was blown to bits, and the cannon came crashing to the ground. Neither the king's cavalry nor his infantry could put it back together.

** One interpretation of ''Mary Mary Quite Contrary'' is that it refers to the torture devices that were used by Mary I (Bloody Mary). "Silver bells" are thumbscrews, "cockleshells" a genital torture device, and the "pretty maids" are the Maiden, also known as the guillotine. However, there's no confirmed evidence of the rhyme dating from Mary's reign, and although there was a guillotine-like device that went by that name- the Scottish Maiden- it wasn't even built when she was alive. The other contender, the little-used Halifax Gibbet, didn't go by the name 'Maiden'. Besides, most of Mary's executions were by burning.

* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090902204700/http://reason.com/news/show/133876.html A Scary Thing Happened]''. A coloring book to help children cope with disasters.