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{{quote|''"From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties and [[Trope Namer|things that go bump in the night,]] good Lord, deliver us!"''|'''Welsh Prayer'''}}
The bogeyman in your closet. The monster lurking in the shadows under your bed. The guy who starts scratching his long, ''razor-sharp'', nails on your windowpane the instant you draw the curtains and turn out the lights. These are the the Things that Go Bump in the Night. They are ''very'' real when you are six or seven years old, and even after you supposedly grow up and move far away, they're still back there, somewhere.
Waiting.
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** 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.
** Ditto with ''[[The Tommyknockers]]'', although they're rather different from the legends.
** Also appears in ''[[
** In several of King's works, the term "allamagoosalum" is applied to these types of creatures.
* [[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. They finally {{spoiler|survive by, yes, hiding under the blankets on their bunks.}}
** 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.
* Boggarts in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books like to hide under beds, closets, and cupboards.
* 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. INCLUDING THEMSELVES.
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or the demons won't wait until you're asleep
before they eat you up }}
* [[Voltaire (
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[The Heartless]] of [[Kingdom Hearts]] ''started out'' as these, according to the first game's [[All There in the Manual|Ansem Reports]]. They lurked in dark places like the rarely-visited sealed off dungeons under the rather gothic castle at Hollow Bastion. Indeed, in the prequel [[Birth By Sleep]], the Heartless were well nigh absent in most areas (with the less deadly Unversed being the main enemies). Unfortunately, by the time the games take place, they've eaten their way out from the shadows and infest almost all outdoor areas, leaving the untrained protagonist Sora dumped into hostile environments with [[Things That Go Bump in the Night]] constantly homing in on him.
* The final monster in the [[Infocom]] [[Interactive Fiction]] game ''The Lurking Horror'' is described in these terms.
* The main premise of videogame ''[[Scratches]]''.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Family Guy]]'', the Evil Monkey living in Chris' closet is a parody of this.
* Gets a huge [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] from the ''[[Animaniacs]]'', when trying to "reassure" a King before he goes to sleep.
{{quote|Hush little King, please don't cry.
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