What is scary? In this case, it's things that may-or-may-not exist, but you wouldn't be able to tell either way. The objective is to have the fear be related to something that people experience in their lives, so they are reminded of it. I guess.
These are some old things.
---From a chat---
A demon.
It starts as a little shadow - almost nothing to it.
It finds someone with nervous tendencies, and then plays with the person.
It flutters and moves near the shadows in the corner of the person's sight.
But hides and vanishes whenever the person looks.
The person is wonders what it is, but doesn't know.
But it continues.
Soon, the curiousity turns to fear - there must be something out there, for the person keeps seeing it.
And then the demon can grow, for as the person imagines it to be something horrible, something horrible it becomes - a reflection of the victim's thoughts.
As the fear and paranoia grows, so does the demon, until finally it does not need to hide in shadows for the person to fear it.
Instead, it lures the victim to some dark spot, and uses the strength the victim gave it to devour the victim.
And then, with no mind giving it shape, it dissolves back into so many bits of shadow, all made of the victim's fear.
And each little bit of fear goes out to torment some new victim.
---End---
The next one was made to illustrate differences between physical horror, rather than mental horror. I prefer the demon above, somewhat unsurprisingly. Again, the thought is that you don't know whether it happened to you.
---Chat---
Imagine a demon-creature who slithers around in the water pipes.
It slithers until it finds a shower head, and when a woman takes a shower there, it mixes sleepiness-inducing chemical into the water.
The woman feels tired, and then falls asleep.
The demon then slithers out, and lays its eggs within the woman.
And then she wakes up, none the wiser.
Until they start to grow.
My friend asked: Where exactly does this demon lay its eggs?
Me: *shrugs*
Me: Any orifice would work, though the mouth or vagina/uterus are the traditional ones.
---End---
Those two for now, maybe more later when I figure out where other old designs are.
