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Illustrator Turns People’s Deepest And Darkest Fears Into Comics
Illustrator Fran Krause asked people to tell him their weirdest and most irrational fears to turn them into witty comics. Sometimes these irrational fears can be traced from the early childhood memories or come as a result of some vivid world explanations grown-ups used to tell you. But sometimes, however, they are just inexplicable. The project, which started with Krause‘s own phobias, now features comics of more than a hundred of craziest and darkest fears readers sent him. When reading through the comics, you can see that even though your fears might be silly, they aren‘t that uncommon. If you feel brave enough, you can submit one yourself! More info: Tumblr | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | Shop (h/t: designtaxi)
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I never knew that another girl had this dreadful fear of mary the virgin thing. my parents even named me mary the virgin, i was terrified!
This happened to me once. Thankfully I only had a little wound in one finger.
I saw that happen once. I don't know how many fingers the person lost - but: ooohh all that blood!
Had this happen a decade or so ago, nearly lost my little finger - still have no feeling from the knuckle up and gnarly double blade scars
Something like that happened to me three years ago. I have all fingers but also a big scar through my left hand
This is literally the reason I won't even get on the ice at an ice rink. People think my fear is falling. No it's falling and that happening
Happened to a classmate of mine,didn't cut her fingers but it passed right on her metacarpus,she had to get 25 stitches and still has a scar
Every time I get home and park my car in the apartment basement. I'd imagine someone can slice off my hand when I open the car door.
This happened to my cousin years ago! Luckily they were were able to pick up her fingers off the ice and reattach them at the hospital!
My fingers were run over by a blade sled when I was 8 years old. I refused to take off my gloves for fear my fingers would come off with the
I saw this happen in figure skating class when I was about 5... It's haunted me ever since!
Actually, my version involves me laying face up on the ice in a halo as the EMT's next attempt to slide me onto a back board.
This happened to my grandma's friend when they were kids. I was raised on that story and was taught to keep my hands in a fist if I fell.
I stopped going skating years ago because of this fear. I have 2 boys & I know I should really take them ice skating but I just can't do it
As an artist, my worst fear was injuring my hands. 9 years ago I severed 3 fingers with a table saw. Not fun, but not as bad as I imagined
9 years ago, my fear came true: I cut off 3 fingers with a table saw. I don't recommend it, not fun, but it's not the worst thing ever.
That was one of my biggest fear when I learned skating....ha...ha... It looks like I am not the only one!
This is a constant paranoia I have; I try to think things and see their reaction, after 10 mins I feel like I've wasted my time.
i have a fear that rat's will come out from the toilet while i'm pooping or a crocodile.
I did that ! But I worried I couldn't go back and I'd have hurt my family for disappearing
same thoughts when i have when i'm eating watermelon.. the seeds grow inside my stomach..
I hide all sharp objects around me before going to sleep at night. I fear I'll kill myself using one of them in my sleep.
Ah! This has always been my greatest fear. Watching the movie Gravity was way scarier than it should've been.
I live alone, and I am afraid that when I die, I won't be found for days, letting my body rot away.
Same here, you are not alone in this. I also fear that I will die outside, nobody will find me and my pet will die of starvation... alone...
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when i was young, everytime i go to bed i have to keep my feet within the bed boundary or else i'll wake up with my feet chopped off.
I must admit I still fear this and still sleep entirely covered with nothing out of the limits of my bed and I am an adult.
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Since I was a small child I sleep with pajamas on for fear the house will catch fire in the middle of the night. I don't want to have to go
When I was little I tried to treat all my stuffed animals equally so on or more of them wouldn't get jealous and kill me in my sleep
I was an a*s as a kid..i used to tell my little sister that all her stuffed animals came to life and had parties, while she was sleeping. She asked me one day while they didn't do it while she was awake and i told her it was because she was a pest and they didnt like her, so they didnt want her at their parties.. I've apologized, now that we're adults
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Ive always had the fear of being completely aware but immobilized during a surgery
When i am a boy, i terrified when i swim in the swimming pool alon, suddenly shark or croc will spawning from nowhere and i cant escape
As a child I always thought a tentacle would come out of those jet thingies on the sides and pull me in... that freaked me out a lot lol >_<
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Im afraid that I will be buried alive. That I will be in a coma, and mispronounced dead. Then i will be buried and wake up.
Especially when he uses the bathroom at night when he's tired and thinks he saw girl in white dress in mirror reflection
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Look people. .just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me
This is one of the scariest and most depressing things I've ever experienced.
I guess it's a reminder that we all have irrational fears....It's a common language.
I have some dreams saying that i have some sort of prophocy and chosen stuff and blah things
I am always afraid that when I walk into a public restroom there will be a dead body.
Going back to bed from the bathroom at night. Its all dark and u feel like something try to catch your feet until u jump on the bed quickly
My friend and I share a similar fear, in high places like a roof we fear we will spontaneously go crazy and fling ourselves to our death.
As a child i was so afraid that my life is a movie and everyone i know was acting and i am the only one who doesn't know :(
I'm 26 and still fear that if I don't leave, not only the bath but the bath room I may get sucked down the drain when I let the water out...
When I was a little girl. I used to think that if I sat in the tub while it drained, I'd get sucked away.
I feared that when I took the plug out of the bathtub, if I didn't get out fast enough, tentacles would wrap around my ankles and pull me in
sometimes my friends who are identical twins pretend to be each other and trick me, unfortunately my biggest fear is not recognizing people
Well, in India, Old people tell us to cover the Mirrors reflecting the bed while we sleep..maybe the Myth could be could..:P..Damn..!!
...world and the real world me will never wake up. :/
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I have a fear of sitting in front of people in the car. For in an accident, all I can picture is their head-full of teeth lodging in my head
Hey i have a story! When i was younger, me and my parents and sibling went to a pool, i was exited cuz my friends and others where there. BUT. when we actually swam in the pool i cling onto my dad, not because i couldn’t swim, it was cuz when i looked down at the pool, it was deep and dark, that, i thought there was an giant octopus inside, even tho the other adults where still not yet eaten, so i just stayed in the kiddie pool.
Since I was a kid until now, I'm afraid of my under bed. I'm still thinking there's something there I don't want to see.
I've always been afraid of the new modern hand dryers where you stick your hand in them, just incase sharp blades shoot out and chop my fingers off, idk.
My Dad almost did #3 on a non-icy patch of pavement recently. He managed to twist his body in time to avoid a fence like this in time, and ended up with a bad black eye and stitches in his eyebrow when he hit the ground instead, but now I've got serious fears about it. THANKS.
Once there was the guy in a rabbit suit in my back yard in the middle of the night....
I'd buy this in book form! I can think of at least 10 people I would gift a copy to. Love it!
I'd buy this in book form. I can think of at least 10 people is gift a copy to. Love it!!!
I'm afraid of going near still water in the dark because I have this irrational fear that the water will somehow manage to pull me in.
My neck gets stiff so I stretch it fairly often and I'm afraid that one day I'll stretch too far and snap my neck.
To keep him away from the electric fence, my mom told my brother that the cows would get him. He's 20 and still afraid :D
I fear that while I'm walking, I'll somehow trip in such a way that my leg will break in half going inward.
once, i saw a bellybutton that was 2cm out of its hole. Iwas afraid tha mine would grow too.
Once, i saw a bellybutton that was 2cm out of its hole and i feared mine would grow too
I have always feared getting my hair caught in the fan of an out door air conditioner unit and being scalped.
I have always feared getting my hair caught in an outdoor air conditioner unit and being scalped.
I fear that if my organs get donated after I die, my spirit won't be able to rest or reach an afterlife because a part of me still lives...
When I'm flipping thru papers, i'm always afraid i'm going to get a paper cut in my eye so I have to hold my head way back.
This is an amazing insight on the human condition. Thanks for sharing.
When I was a little girl, I used to think that if I let the water out of the bath tub while I was still in it, I'd get sucked down the drain
I don't turn on the light if I get up in the night for the toilet, I can't look in the mirror for fear of seeing a reflection behind me.
When I wake up in the middle of the night, I never open my eyes because I'm afraid there will be a dead girl standing in my room, watching m
That moment when you first turn off the lights and your in pitch black darkness, I've always feared feeling a strangers hand on my shoulder
Being in pitch black darkness and feeling an unexpected hand on your shoulder
I worry that if I die and won't be found my cats will die of starvation. So I've started hoping I'll die at home so they can eat off me ^^
I worry I'll die alone trapped in a room and no one will find me for weeks, so that my cats will die of starvation.
Whenever i am ab to slip or fall i always have a flashing fear that i will fall fave forward and bust out my 2 front teeth!
I was terrified that my arm or leg could dangle from my bed during sleep. A hag would come with a saw then and cut these limbs away.
Mum told me the Angel Gabriel is a man & 8ft tall. Whenever I woke up in the night I never opened my eyes for fear he'd be standing over me.
Mum told me the angel gabriel was a man & 8 ft tall. Whenever I woke up in the night I never opened my eyes for fear he was standing over me
I'm afraid that an invisible car will hit me when I'm crossing the street.
Wow, it's very humbling and even empowering to read these, I feel closer to the human soul for some reason...
Fear of candles. If there's a lit candle anywhere near me, I blow it out in case there's an earthquake and buns the house down.
Way too scary fears !! None of them neve crossed my mind...lucky ? :)
I fear that when I die,my friends wont find out and will think that I hate them.
When I was running down the stairs of my home, I always was afraid of getting my leg caught in the railing and breaking it right through.
When writing in class, I feared the teacher would look over my shoulder and I'd pierce his eye with the end of my pen, jumping with fright.
Load More Replies... When I was runnign down the stairs of our house, I always was afraid of getting my leg stuck in the railing and breaking right though.
Proud boyfriend thinks I'm not vain cause I have no mirrors at home besides the bathroom one. He doesn't know it's cause I am scared of them
too bad there isn't one fear about grammar...#23 has a gigantic mistake... "it's way up" when it should be "its way up".
I fear stairs with railed banisters. I'm afraid I'll fall and my arm will slip in between two rails( trying to stop) and it will snap in two
When I sleep I cover my entire head with the blanket leaving only a small hole to breathe thinking no ghosts can penetrate it while sleeping
I'd tuck in all of my covers in fear of someone crawling up under the covers to get me, or to pull me out by my feet...
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I worry that a spider will lay eggs in me and someday all the babies will exit all my orifices
When I was a kid I thought if I let my arms or legs hang over the edge of the bed that someone would be under there and cut them off.
I worry that when i die, i would wake up being in the coffin, 6 ft under, in the dark.
I won't go under icicles for fear they'll fall, kill me and melt away before anyone can figure out what happened.
When I was younger I was scared of thieves breaking into my home at night, so I would sit up at night with a flash light.
So so clever. What a brilliant mind you have. I loved them all. Bought back some long lost memories of my childhood.
I love it. I usued to think that all that s**t that adults put into children is horrible, but at least this time it was useful.
When riding my bike along the road, I always fear that I will fall and shatter my teeth on a cement light pole.
I have this fear and it started with sites with dead body's, I fear if I die in any way somebody will take a picture.
I had most of these fears as a child and still a few to this day, just hidden. Great work!
When I was little, my brother told me that the holes in bricks were eyes and that if I stepped too close, they would get me. Still scares me
When it's cold outside I worry that my hands my hands will break off like chunks of ice
I'm afraid that when I go to the toilet, a hand will come out and grab me.
Also, I'm afraid that when I die, I will be fully consious, but forever alone in the dark, waiting..
Load More Replies... I sometimes worry a hand will come out of the toilet when I go at night..
Fran Krause, I wonder if you might do a cartoon about 'kleptophobia'?
My biggest fear has always been waking up in a lab. That my whole life was just a dream or a alternate reality where scientist or creatures
Same here... I fear of waking up one day that all this time, i'm really not who i thought i was. That this is all a dream.
Load More Replies... This work is amazing ! As much for it's intelect than it's beauty. Great job !
I still am afraid of whats going on with US when we die, if se will feel a thing, if were going to feel line sleeping, stay in the Dark...
I agree. Now I have some new fears lol. Some of these are pretty intense. Good read though. I'd hate to see some of my fears on here
I've had many of these but I don't define them as fears today. I'm kinda more afraid of parent still saying stupid staff like these.
My greatest irrational fear is that I will throw away my phone or kindle through a window of a train I'm riding, or off a bridge I'm walking
Fix your damn scrolling code already. Was a pain as usual to scroll down. Otherwise really nice horrid images.
At the top it says: Illustrator Fran Krause asked people to tell him their weirdest and most irrational fears to turn them into witty comics
Load More Replies... I live alone, and I am afraid that when I die, I won't be found for days, letting my body rot away.
Same here, you are not alone in this. I also fear that I will die outside, nobody will find me and my pet will die of starvation... alone...
Load More Replies... when i was young, everytime i go to bed i have to keep my feet within the bed boundary or else i'll wake up with my feet chopped off.
I must admit I still fear this and still sleep entirely covered with nothing out of the limits of my bed and I am an adult.
Load More Replies... Since I was a small child I sleep with pajamas on for fear the house will catch fire in the middle of the night. I don't want to have to go
When I was little I tried to treat all my stuffed animals equally so on or more of them wouldn't get jealous and kill me in my sleep
I was an a*s as a kid..i used to tell my little sister that all her stuffed animals came to life and had parties, while she was sleeping. She asked me one day while they didn't do it while she was awake and i told her it was because she was a pest and they didnt like her, so they didnt want her at their parties.. I've apologized, now that we're adults
Load More Replies... Ive always had the fear of being completely aware but immobilized during a surgery
When i am a boy, i terrified when i swim in the swimming pool alon, suddenly shark or croc will spawning from nowhere and i cant escape
As a child I always thought a tentacle would come out of those jet thingies on the sides and pull me in... that freaked me out a lot lol >_<
Load More Replies... Im afraid that I will be buried alive. That I will be in a coma, and mispronounced dead. Then i will be buried and wake up.
Especially when he uses the bathroom at night when he's tired and thinks he saw girl in white dress in mirror reflection
Load More Replies... Look people. .just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me
This is one of the scariest and most depressing things I've ever experienced.
I guess it's a reminder that we all have irrational fears....It's a common language.
I have some dreams saying that i have some sort of prophocy and chosen stuff and blah things
I am always afraid that when I walk into a public restroom there will be a dead body.
Going back to bed from the bathroom at night. Its all dark and u feel like something try to catch your feet until u jump on the bed quickly
My friend and I share a similar fear, in high places like a roof we fear we will spontaneously go crazy and fling ourselves to our death.
As a child i was so afraid that my life is a movie and everyone i know was acting and i am the only one who doesn't know :(
I'm 26 and still fear that if I don't leave, not only the bath but the bath room I may get sucked down the drain when I let the water out...
When I was a little girl. I used to think that if I sat in the tub while it drained, I'd get sucked away.
I feared that when I took the plug out of the bathtub, if I didn't get out fast enough, tentacles would wrap around my ankles and pull me in
sometimes my friends who are identical twins pretend to be each other and trick me, unfortunately my biggest fear is not recognizing people
Well, in India, Old people tell us to cover the Mirrors reflecting the bed while we sleep..maybe the Myth could be could..:P..Damn..!!
...world and the real world me will never wake up. :/
Load More Replies... I have a fear of sitting in front of people in the car. For in an accident, all I can picture is their head-full of teeth lodging in my head
Hey i have a story! When i was younger, me and my parents and sibling went to a pool, i was exited cuz my friends and others where there. BUT. when we actually swam in the pool i cling onto my dad, not because i couldn’t swim, it was cuz when i looked down at the pool, it was deep and dark, that, i thought there was an giant octopus inside, even tho the other adults where still not yet eaten, so i just stayed in the kiddie pool.
Since I was a kid until now, I'm afraid of my under bed. I'm still thinking there's something there I don't want to see.
I've always been afraid of the new modern hand dryers where you stick your hand in them, just incase sharp blades shoot out and chop my fingers off, idk.
My Dad almost did #3 on a non-icy patch of pavement recently. He managed to twist his body in time to avoid a fence like this in time, and ended up with a bad black eye and stitches in his eyebrow when he hit the ground instead, but now I've got serious fears about it. THANKS.
Once there was the guy in a rabbit suit in my back yard in the middle of the night....
I'd buy this in book form! I can think of at least 10 people I would gift a copy to. Love it!
I'd buy this in book form. I can think of at least 10 people is gift a copy to. Love it!!!
I'm afraid of going near still water in the dark because I have this irrational fear that the water will somehow manage to pull me in.
My neck gets stiff so I stretch it fairly often and I'm afraid that one day I'll stretch too far and snap my neck.
To keep him away from the electric fence, my mom told my brother that the cows would get him. He's 20 and still afraid :D
I fear that while I'm walking, I'll somehow trip in such a way that my leg will break in half going inward.
once, i saw a bellybutton that was 2cm out of its hole. Iwas afraid tha mine would grow too.
Once, i saw a bellybutton that was 2cm out of its hole and i feared mine would grow too
I have always feared getting my hair caught in the fan of an out door air conditioner unit and being scalped.
I have always feared getting my hair caught in an outdoor air conditioner unit and being scalped.
I fear that if my organs get donated after I die, my spirit won't be able to rest or reach an afterlife because a part of me still lives...
When I'm flipping thru papers, i'm always afraid i'm going to get a paper cut in my eye so I have to hold my head way back.
This is an amazing insight on the human condition. Thanks for sharing.
When I was a little girl, I used to think that if I let the water out of the bath tub while I was still in it, I'd get sucked down the drain
I don't turn on the light if I get up in the night for the toilet, I can't look in the mirror for fear of seeing a reflection behind me.
When I wake up in the middle of the night, I never open my eyes because I'm afraid there will be a dead girl standing in my room, watching m
That moment when you first turn off the lights and your in pitch black darkness, I've always feared feeling a strangers hand on my shoulder
Being in pitch black darkness and feeling an unexpected hand on your shoulder
I worry that if I die and won't be found my cats will die of starvation. So I've started hoping I'll die at home so they can eat off me ^^
I worry I'll die alone trapped in a room and no one will find me for weeks, so that my cats will die of starvation.
Whenever i am ab to slip or fall i always have a flashing fear that i will fall fave forward and bust out my 2 front teeth!
I was terrified that my arm or leg could dangle from my bed during sleep. A hag would come with a saw then and cut these limbs away.
Mum told me the Angel Gabriel is a man & 8ft tall. Whenever I woke up in the night I never opened my eyes for fear he'd be standing over me.
Mum told me the angel gabriel was a man & 8 ft tall. Whenever I woke up in the night I never opened my eyes for fear he was standing over me
I'm afraid that an invisible car will hit me when I'm crossing the street.
Wow, it's very humbling and even empowering to read these, I feel closer to the human soul for some reason...
Fear of candles. If there's a lit candle anywhere near me, I blow it out in case there's an earthquake and buns the house down.
Way too scary fears !! None of them neve crossed my mind...lucky ? :)
I fear that when I die,my friends wont find out and will think that I hate them.
When I was running down the stairs of my home, I always was afraid of getting my leg caught in the railing and breaking it right through.
When writing in class, I feared the teacher would look over my shoulder and I'd pierce his eye with the end of my pen, jumping with fright.
Load More Replies... When I was runnign down the stairs of our house, I always was afraid of getting my leg stuck in the railing and breaking right though.
Proud boyfriend thinks I'm not vain cause I have no mirrors at home besides the bathroom one. He doesn't know it's cause I am scared of them
too bad there isn't one fear about grammar...#23 has a gigantic mistake... "it's way up" when it should be "its way up".
I fear stairs with railed banisters. I'm afraid I'll fall and my arm will slip in between two rails( trying to stop) and it will snap in two
When I sleep I cover my entire head with the blanket leaving only a small hole to breathe thinking no ghosts can penetrate it while sleeping
I'd tuck in all of my covers in fear of someone crawling up under the covers to get me, or to pull me out by my feet...
Load More Replies... I worry that a spider will lay eggs in me and someday all the babies will exit all my orifices
When I was a kid I thought if I let my arms or legs hang over the edge of the bed that someone would be under there and cut them off.
I worry that when i die, i would wake up being in the coffin, 6 ft under, in the dark.
I won't go under icicles for fear they'll fall, kill me and melt away before anyone can figure out what happened.
When I was younger I was scared of thieves breaking into my home at night, so I would sit up at night with a flash light.
So so clever. What a brilliant mind you have. I loved them all. Bought back some long lost memories of my childhood.
I love it. I usued to think that all that s**t that adults put into children is horrible, but at least this time it was useful.
When riding my bike along the road, I always fear that I will fall and shatter my teeth on a cement light pole.
I have this fear and it started with sites with dead body's, I fear if I die in any way somebody will take a picture.
I had most of these fears as a child and still a few to this day, just hidden. Great work!
When I was little, my brother told me that the holes in bricks were eyes and that if I stepped too close, they would get me. Still scares me
When it's cold outside I worry that my hands my hands will break off like chunks of ice
I'm afraid that when I go to the toilet, a hand will come out and grab me.
Also, I'm afraid that when I die, I will be fully consious, but forever alone in the dark, waiting..
Load More Replies... I sometimes worry a hand will come out of the toilet when I go at night..
Fran Krause, I wonder if you might do a cartoon about 'kleptophobia'?
My biggest fear has always been waking up in a lab. That my whole life was just a dream or a alternate reality where scientist or creatures
Same here... I fear of waking up one day that all this time, i'm really not who i thought i was. That this is all a dream.
Load More Replies... This work is amazing ! As much for it's intelect than it's beauty. Great job !
I still am afraid of whats going on with US when we die, if se will feel a thing, if were going to feel line sleeping, stay in the Dark...
I agree. Now I have some new fears lol. Some of these are pretty intense. Good read though. I'd hate to see some of my fears on here
I've had many of these but I don't define them as fears today. I'm kinda more afraid of parent still saying stupid staff like these.
My greatest irrational fear is that I will throw away my phone or kindle through a window of a train I'm riding, or off a bridge I'm walking
Fix your damn scrolling code already. Was a pain as usual to scroll down. Otherwise really nice horrid images.
At the top it says: Illustrator Fran Krause asked people to tell him their weirdest and most irrational fears to turn them into witty comics
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