Fear of the dark is a common fear (phobia)
Fear of the Dark may also refer to:
- Fear of the Dark (Iron Maiden album), a 1992 album by Iron Maiden
- "Fear of the Dark" (song), a song from the album, also released as a single
- Fear of the Dark (Gordon Giltrap album)
- "Fear of the Dark," a song from Author! Author!, the 1981 album by Scars
- Fear of the Dark (2001 film), an American film
- Fear of the Dark (2002 film), a 2002 Canadian horror film starring Jesse James
- Fear(s) of the Dark, a 2007 French black-and-white animated anthology film on the subject of fear
- Fear of the Dark (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who novel
- Fear of the Dark (Mosley), the third novel in Walter Mosley's Fearless Jones series
- Fear of the Dark (novel), an awarded novel (Shamus Award, 1989) by Gar Anthony Haywood
Famous quotes containing the words fear of the, fear of, fear and/or dark:
“The best thing about Sassy Seats is that grandmothers cannot figure out how they work and are in constant fear of the child’s falling. This often makes them forget to comment on other aspects of the child’s development, like why he is not yet talking or is still wearing diapers. Some grandmothers will spend an entire meal peering beneath the table and saying, “Is that thing steady?” rather than, “Have you had a doctor look at that left hand?””
—Anna Quindlen (20th century)
“At bottom there is in Joyce a profound hatred for humanity—the scholar’s hatred. One realizes that he has the neurotic’s fear of entering the living world, the world of men and women in which he is powerless to function. He is in revolt not against institutions, but against mankind.... Ulysses is like a vomit spilled by a delicate child whose stomach has been overloaded with sweetmeats.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“A major misunderstanding of child rearing has been the idea that meeting a child’s needs is an end in itself, for the purpose of the child’s mental health. Mothers have not understood that this is but one step in social development, the goal of which is to help a child begin to consider others. As a result, they often have not considered their children but have instead allowed their children’s reality to take precedence, out of a fear of damaging them emotionally.”
—Elaine Heffner (20th century)
“who should moor at his edge
And fare on afoot would find gates of no gardens,
But the hill of dark underfoot diving,
Closing overhead, the cold deep, and drowning.
He is called Leviathan, and named for rolling,”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)