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Nightmare Fuel / The Librarians (2014)

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  • Imagine someone getting sick and not knowing how or why. Then imagine never finding out, because it was a book, draining their life energy into the reader while making fairy tales reality.
  • Also imagine someone you know and care about suddenly dying for no logical reason - the symptoms of a massive drug overdose despite having zero drugs in their bloodstream, the trauma one would have from being hit by a car despite not even being around a car...
  • The Cold Open of "And The Rise of Chaos" features a man being dragged along on a museum tour by his wife, bored out of his skull. He's absently listening to the audio commentary, when suddenly the voice on the headphones starts speaking directly to him, luring him into another room where he's attacked by a shadowy spirit. It's exactly as creepy as it sounds.
    • A little later on, we see an ordinary night guard closing up at the Boston Science Museum. He's making his rounds, having a quiet evening... until suddenly, all the mannequins come to life and come for him!
    • Later, both he and Barry (the previously possessed man) are interrogated by DOSA. Neither of them have any idea of what is happening to them or, in the latter case, why they're being interrogated, which is utterly terrifying.
  • The Reaper. An immortal contract killer who sets a deadline by which its intended victim will be dead. It can't be bought off or otherwise convinced to abandon the kill and there's no magic that can stop it. The only reason Eve survives is because it has to kill her at a specific time in a specific place and she's just barely able to arrange things so that she isn't where she should be at the time.
  • Seeing your husband spontaneously burst into flames right in front of you, without having any idea why. Then later catching fire because someone pulled back the drapes. Seth and Cici had no idea they had been turned into vampires.

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