A reader submitted phobia becomes a comic illustrated by Fran Krause.
 
When illustrator, filmmaker and academic Fran Krause started his “Deep Dark Fears” series of web-based comics, the ideas sprang from his own feelings of dread about getting chopped in half by an elevator door or perhaps the things that creep around the house when the lights are out. It wasn’t long before Krause started illustrating submissions from his fans, with rather terrifying results.
 

It could happen!
 
Born in Upstate New York, Krause now lives in Los Angeles and teaches animation at the California Institute of the Arts. Krause’s Tumblr is regularly updated with new submissions from readers who suffer from various phobias that many of us share—such as the fear of the dark or flying to more elaborate, unfounded fears like being shredded to bits by a subway turnstile or having your finger chopmed off by a worm with teeth that lives in your nose. When pouring through Krause’s Tumblr I noticed that many of the stories that were submitted came from stories they were told when they were children by their parents, grandparents, mentors, or older siblings. Although I really don’t understand the benefit of telling your kid to not worry about sweeping up breadcrumbs from the kitchen floor after dinner because that’s what the dead people in the house eat at night. Yikes.

If you dig what you see in this post, 101 of Krause’s nightmare-fueled comics are a part of the 2015 book called Deep Dark Fears. So grab some No-Doz and read on. If you need me, I’ll be under the bed.
 

 
More of your worst nightmares illustrated by Fran Krause after the jump…