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We all have strange and irrational fears, but few of us make a living off them like Fran Krause.

The LA-based cartoonist, who we previously wrote about here, has added new comics to his Deep Dark Fears series, and they're just as morbidly delightful as the last batch. Krause has gained a cult following on Tumblr thanks to his knack for illustrating the most paranoid corners of people's minds, and his work is almost entirely based on user input. Some of the comics turn ridiculous phobias into humorous imagery, while others deal with serious trauma.

The lifeblood of the project is how universal it is. It shows the fears that so many of us share, and encourages us to embrace them. Check out some of the latest Deep Dark Fears below, but make sure to leave the light on.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

THIS! I always position my bed affixed in a wall and every night when I sleep I always make sure that I am glued to the wall. I am afraid that creepy monsters will grab me by the hand or foot and take me to their dark kingdom. I thought of this even under my bed there is no space for monster to squeeze in because its full of "sentimental stuff".

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one is interesting. It's a ghost story, but the fear is not really towards ghosts, it's towards your own self. Fear of neglecting someone you love.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Understandable given how fast time flies. Can't believe we're already into Feb for example.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The fear is of being possessed, rather than killed. My mind alone is already too much for my poor little brain sometimes, it would be torture to have another soul trying to hack in.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone says,If you die,You will get in some kind of cinema,And you'll see everything that you had done in your whole life(at just one moment),And then you blackout。

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

once i was dreaming, that i was dreaming and i woke up in that dream and i told my dad about this, then i woke up for real, i was so confused and asked my dad if i already told him about this xD

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your memory is not wiped out. At least not everyone's. My mother had an eye surgery and she "woke up" in the middle of the process. And the doctors couldn't tell, they almost thought they lost a patient, because it took longer for her body to start showing signs of conscience. She could tell us "kids" how she could see and hear them almost panicking over her, and how badly she wanted to shout "I'm alive and fine!". Then she had thoughts of patients in a coma and that were decided for anesthesia.... I'm so glad my mom has been doing fine all these years after that experience and that the surgery was actually successful and her sight was restored.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh yes, the plot to every movie about the rapture. Also, brings up a problem with teaching kids fundamental religious beliefs.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you set the lighting to the lowest point, the difference is not that big anymore. Actually, I even can't look at my phone in the dark with its settings set on high brightness levels. It hurts too much.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My hands would feel all prickly for blood circulation reasons if I kept my hand up my neck during the whole film...

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then you might not want to watch National Geographic's Mysteries of the Unseen World...

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree with Spinaap. But I wanna add that this little bitter-sweet anecdote is a good example to give when you're trying to explain about the harm of someone being over-protective.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh my, this one reminded me of that certain time when... It's a long story, but I wanna tell it, so, I'll try to keep it simple. Sometimes in S. Korea, the siren goes off as part of a military training (because technically, the war is not really "over", right?) for citizens to run to the shelters. Nobody cares about it nowadays, and people just ignore the siren, but the first times I heard it, back when I just moved to the country, from my Safe European Home, it was too hard to pretend I'm not freaking out. One day the siren went off while I was taking a daily nap home alone. Recently it has been a good while of not hearing those sirens.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good habit if you ever go camping, i've spent an hour setting up the perfect safe spot for a tent. saved our lives last year when we had a late night wind storm and four old growth cedar trees came down. They all feel exactly where I thought they would so being a bit neurotic can be a life saver.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I kinda do this but I worry that everything I think in my head, I'm actually saying out loud. And I can think some pretty horrible and mean thoughts....

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I cut my eyebrow when falling down when kid, my father offered me a drink to calm me down. The problem he offered me to drink something red (guess some cherry juice or smth like that) - I cried even more because I was sure my blood was falling into the cup and that's why it is red, and I am offered to drink my own blood. Don't remember much, but the red drink and being sure that it is my blood.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It IS a super loud noise when you flush. Fast too. It always makes me jump.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There was an accident with a girl almost scalped on an attraction. It was horrible.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've had several nightmares about how my beloved stuffed animals are being mixed up with identical stuffed animals (from the same factory) that aren't them :'( .

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's why they instruct you to not eat anything that needs chewing for a while after. You might also accidentally chew your inner cheek.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't think they'd snip off, but they could break your bones and it would hurt like all hell.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hence qhy you should always concentrate on the road instead of the lights in front of you. If they need to suddenly brake the change of lights will grab your attention anyway, particularly at night.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The worst is having a nurse who doesn't know what she's doing. I had one nurse who SCRAPED the insides of my vein with the needle. Another who grazed a nerve in my arm! Took me a little over a week for my nerve to heal after that. Ugh.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

when it takes too long to surface I'm afraid I'll never get there, that I don't know which way is up anymore. more so in the ocean. swimming is scary

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One time I came home to my house with my mom (we both temporarily lived in a room together that had cheap rent) and we suddenly discovered a cigarette on the floor. Neither one of us smoked.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel like not only is that really smart-- this is kind of cute <3 I like the idea of taking good care of a life you'll have to live.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I lock my doors when I'm driving so crazy people can't jump in at a red light.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have this fear daily. I always had a bad memory and fear that this defect will get worse with age sooner than later.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

why you should never shower during an electrical storm, you become part of the grounded circuit. Also partly why metal drain lines are usually pvc now.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is something they mentioned on multiple occasions when I was studying cooking... for exactly this reason. You can lose a finger, you can slash your hand, etc. I even jump back slightly so that it doesn't possibly stab or slice through my shoe. I can just wash a knife if it falls. If I cut myself, I have to thoroughly wash and dress a wound (even if it's not serious), clean the station, and throw out the food I was working on.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to talk to a shadow woman when I was a child, still not sure if it was a dream or overactive imagination.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Naw. If anything, you'd crash the BACK of your car into a tree :) Falling back down the hill. .... Or another car.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worry I'll sneeze while driving and get in an accident while my eyes are closed

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is why it is good to wear eyeglasses instead of contact lenses. You are safe at least from this thing.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some crazy chick once told me people with glasses are more likely to get brain cancer because our glasses amplify the wireless waves from the Internet. I was at work and she was a customer who thought I needed to know this.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Smart idea! It can actually happen...not pretty...or you can just cut the back of the ring!

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Congrats, you have your own movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3013018/

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Short of the heart explosion, i had this dream all through collage and for years afterward.

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