History Quotes / ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight

-->--'''[[Music/{{Gwar}} GWAR]]''', "I'll Be Your Monster"

-->--'''Music/{{Allstars}}''', "Bump in the Night"

-->--'''Music/{{Radiohead}},''' "Climbing Up the Walls"

-->--'''Creator/DeanKoontz''', ''The Book of Counted Sorrows''

-->--'''Creator/StephenKing''', foreword for ''Literature/NightShift''

-->--'''Lucifer''', ''Film/TheProphecy''

-->--'''Richard Sonnac,''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Book of Worlds''

-->--''[[TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness Innocents]]'' on '''Night Terrors'''

-->--''[[Creator/JohnConnolly The Erlking]]''

-->--''Videogame/DwarfFortress''

-->--''[[Literature/{{Hagwood}} Thorn Ogres of Hagwood]]''

-->--'''Molly Finch''', ''VideoGame/WhatRemainsOfEdithFinch''

-->---'''Harry Dresden''', ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''

-->--'''Music/{{Lordi}}''', "They Only Come Out at Night"

-->--'''Mum''', ''Film/TheABCsOfDeath''

-->--'''[[Music/{{Gwar}} GWAR]]''', ''I'll Be Your Monster''

-->--'''Music/{{Allstars}}''', ''Bump in the Night ''

->''In the desolate depths of a perilous place\\
the bogeyman lurks, with a snarl on his face.\\
Never dare, never dare to approach his dark lair\\
for he's waiting...just waiting...to get you.''

->''He skulks in the shadows, relentless and wild\\
in his search for a tender, delectable child.\\
With his steely sharp claws and his slavering jaws\\
oh he's waiting...just waiting...to get you.''

->''Many have entered his dreary domain\\
but not even one has been heard from again.\\
They no doubt made a feast for the butchering beast\\
and he's waiting...just waiting...to get you.''

->''In that sulphurous, sunless and sinister place\\
he'll crumple your bones in his bogey embrace.\\
Never never go near if you hold your life dear,\\
for oh!...what he'll do...when he gets you!''
-->-- '''Jack Prelutsky''', "The Bogeyman"
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You hear a creek on the stair\\

-->--'''[[Music/{{Allstars}}]]''', ''Bump in the Night ''

You're shivering and quivering

-> ''There's a chill in the air\\

-->--'''[[Music/{{Allstars}}''', ''Bump in the Night ''

-->--'''[[Music/Gwar GWAR]]''', ''I'll Be Your Monster''

But some dreams do come true\\
I'll be your monster, baby\\
I'll rip you apart\\
I'll be your monster, baby\\
I'm gonna take your heart\\
I'll be your monster, baby\\
Oh please don't go\\
I'll be your monster, baby\\
I'll eat you up\\
I love you so!''

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->''The silent night has turned to a night of fear\\
With windows howling wind into your ear\\
You listen to the spirits far behind\\
These things you hear are too much for your mind''

->''The bell strikes and your spine chills like the grave\\
The chill that turns your blood from red to grey\\
You know that with these things you see and hear\\
The silent night has turned to a night of fear''
-->-- '''Music/TheMove''', "Night of Fear"
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->Don't go in there, you'll become one\\

Snakes and lovers – turn the lights off!

They aren't.

->They are the things that make children wake screaming, blind with fear, in the middle of the night. They are the things that slip through the cracks under bedroom windows, the things that turn the knobs of bedroom closets and push them open with agonizing slowness, while the children cower under their blankets and pray that the old stories about monsters not being able to touch them through their sheets are true.\\
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Drops upon my life's short precious play.\\
\\
From the darkness, by the closet\\

Makes: a madd'ning drip-drip-dripping sound.\\
\\
It seems some ill-proportioned beast,\\

Is drooling poison puddles on the ground.\\
\\
A can of mace, a forty-five,\\

But no weapon lies within my sight.\\
\\
Oh my gosh! A shadow's creeping,\\

Slowly 'cross a moonlit square of light!\\
\\
Suddenly a floorboard creak\\

A fang gleams in the dark and murky gray!\\
\\
Oh, blood-red eyes and tentacles!\\

Mucus-oozing pores and frightful claws!\\
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Worse, in terms of outright scariness,\\

for he's waiting...just waiting...to get you.\\
\\
He skulks in the shadows, relentless and wild\\

oh he's waiting...just waiting...to get you.\\
\\
Many have entered his dreary domain\\

and he's waiting...just waiting...to get you.\\
\\
In that sulphurous, sunless and sinister place\\

->''At night, when I go to bed, I still am at pains to be sure that my legs are under the blanket after the lights go out. I'm not a child any more but... I don't like to sleep with one leg sticking out. Because if a cool hand ever reached out from under the bed and grasped my ankle, I might scream. Yes, I might scream to wake the dead. That sort of thing doesn't happen, of course, and we all know that. In the stories that follow you will encounter all manner of night creatures; vampires, demon lovers, a thing that lives in the closet, all sorts of other terrors. None of them are real. The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.''

->Little Tommy Daggett. How I loved listening to your sweet prayers every night. And then you'd jump in your bed, so afraid that I was under it... ''and I was!''

-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Book Of Worlds''

->They are the things that make children wake screaming, blind with fear, in the middle of the night. They are the things that slip through the cracks under bedroom windows, the things that turn the knobs of bedroom closets and push them open with agonizing slowness, while the children cower under their blankets and pray that the old stories about monsters not being able to touch them through their sheets are true.
->They aren't.
-->--''[[TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness Innocents]]'' on '''Night Terrors'''

->In the light of the fire, I tell them tales of the Sandman, who tears out the eyes of small boys who will not sleep; and of Literature/BabaYaga, the demon witch, who rides in a chariot of old bones and rests her palms on the skulls of children; and of [[Characters/ClassicalMythologyMonsters Scylla]], who drags sailors into the depths and has an appetite that can never be appeased.
->And I tell them of the Erlking, with his [[WhenTreesAttack arms of bark and ivy]], and his [[SoftSpokenSadist soft, rustling voice]], and his gifts to trap the unwary, and his [[ChildEater appetites]] [[YourSoulIsMine which are so much worse]] [[AndIMustScream than anything they can imagine]]. I tell them of his desires, so that they will know him in all his forms, and they will be ready for him when he comes.
-->--''[[Creator/JohnConnolly The Erlking]]''

->[[IronicNurseryRhyme Crickle crackle]], [[VoluntaryShapeshifting wergle thee]],
->Stray not from the cobweb tree,
->Catch my brother or eat my mother,
->O [[WasOnceAMan Frighty Aggie]], sting not me
-->--''[[Literature/{{Hagwood}} Thorn Ogres Of Hagwood]]''

->Boys and girls, it's nighty night time\\

Got 'em.

->You know you saw them, but no one ever listens\\

''They only come out at night!''

->'''Loys Bedoys''': "See! Look at the scary monster hand."
->'''Roys Bedoys''': "Oh, Loys. That's just a tree branch. Don't be a scaredy cat. Be brave. Be a big boy. ''(hears a sound)'' What's that noise, Loys?!"
->'''Loys''': ''(mockingly)'' "Be brave. Be a big boy."
->'''Roys''': "I... I'm not scared. I'm just asking you what that noise is."