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* In ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'', TheRant for [[https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/wheel-smashing-lord-3-65-to-3-66/ this page]] has an account of a caravan that took shelter from a sandstorm in ruins implied to be where [[TheWormThatWalks Gog-Agog]] was once imprisoned. The sense of unease it created was so great three of them died in the sandstorm trying to find anywhere else to rest, but nothing happened when they stayed there.
--> '''Graves:''' It was one of the most harrowing and uneventful nights of my career. The company parted soon after. We lost the stomach for the work.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Figment|DisneyKingdoms}}'': As the doglike Chimera's fears are "barked" to her rather than spoken in English and there are no visual clues as to what they could be, the reader can only guess what scares her enough to leave her crying TearsOfFear.
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Compare and contrast AndIMustScream, CatScare, CreepyBasement, GoryDiscretionShot, JumpScare, MonsterDelay, UnseenEvil, and TheUnreveal. One of the counterarguments against leaving nothing to the imagination, and sometimes an argument against {{Gorn}} as well. DeadAir can be this for radio. TheSpook and the DiabolusExNihilo are often characterized by this trope.

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Compare and contrast AndIMustScream, CatScare, CreepyBasement, GoryDiscretionShot, JumpScare, MonsterDelay, UnseenEvil, and TheUnreveal. One of the counterarguments against leaving nothing to the imagination, and sometimes an argument against {{Gorn}} as well. DeadAir can be this for radio. TheSpook and the DiabolusExNihilo are often characterized by this trope.
trope. It often overlaps with HalfEmptyTwoShot (a two-character shot where one character is conspicuously absent) when it's PlayedForHorror.
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** ''NothingIsScarier/FiveNightsAtFreddys''
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This is a {{Horror}} trope where fear isn't induced by a traumatic visual element or by a physical threat, but by the ''sole lack of event''. When properly done, it can result in terrifying moments. It does so for one simple reason: the creator refuses to show us what's causing this horror, but we desperately wish to know, so imagination fills in the blanks and our minds provide the content, using what the individual considers scary.

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This is a {{Horror}} trope where fear isn't induced by a traumatic visual element or by a physical threat, but by the ''sole lack of event''. When properly done, it can result in terrifying moments. It does so for one simple reason: the creator refuses to show us what's just what it is that's causing this horror, but we desperately wish to know, so our imagination fills in the blanks and our minds provide the content, using what whatever the individual considers scary.
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* In the Creepypasta WebOriginal/SuicideMouse, the majority of the titular episode is just Mickey Mouse walking past some buildings while odd noises play. It somehow managed to make an employee who was watching it commit suicide.

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* In the Creepypasta WebOriginal/SuicideMouse, Fanfic/SuicideMouse, the majority of the titular episode is just Mickey Mouse walking past some buildings while odd noises play. It somehow managed to make an employee who was watching it commit suicide.
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Compare and contrast AndIMustScream, CatScare, CreepyBasement, DaylightHorror, GoryDiscretionShot, JumpScare, MonsterDelay, UnseenEvil, and TheUnreveal. One of the counterarguments against leaving nothing to the imagination, and sometimes an argument against {{Gorn}} as well. DeadAir can be this for radio. TheSpook and the DiabolusExNihilo are often characterized by this trope.

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Compare and contrast AndIMustScream, CatScare, CreepyBasement, DaylightHorror, GoryDiscretionShot, JumpScare, MonsterDelay, UnseenEvil, and TheUnreveal. One of the counterarguments against leaving nothing to the imagination, and sometimes an argument against {{Gorn}} as well. DeadAir can be this for radio. TheSpook and the DiabolusExNihilo are often characterized by this trope.



* The author of ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'' turns it into form of (''creeeepy'') art. It's not that the ''troll'' was there all along -- that's [[DaylightHorror clearly visible]]. It's when you look closer and then you start seeing just ''why'' the trolls are so creepy... [[spoiler:They're made of people... and there are still human faces on them... full of terror...]]

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* The author of ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'' turns it into form of (''creeeepy'') art. It's not that the ''troll'' was there all along -- that's [[DaylightHorror clearly visible]].visible. It's when you look closer and then you start seeing just ''why'' the trolls are so creepy... [[spoiler:They're made of people... and there are still human faces on them... full of terror...]]
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* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Volume Five, two men from the troupe scout ahead, and return riding as fast as they can, and ''there's no pursuit''. Worse, when Lars and Augie tell the story, this is when they note that something is ''very'' '''very''' wrong.
--->'''Augie:''' Took us a while to figure out ''why.'' No animals. No birds. We left the road to look around. There were no signs of life. No active burrows, no fresh nests. No fresh tracks. No droppings. No bodies. No bones. '''Nothing.'''

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* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Volume Five, two men from the troupe scout ahead, and return riding as fast as they can, and ''there's no pursuit''. Worse, when Lars and Augie tell the story, this is when they note that something is ''very'' '''very''' wrong.
--->'''Augie:''' -->'''Augie:''' Took us a while to figure out ''why.'' No animals. No birds. We left the road to look around. There were no signs of life. No active burrows, no fresh nests. No fresh tracks. No droppings. No bodies. No bones. '''Nothing.'''



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* On the November 11, 2005 ''Wrestling/{{WWESmackDown}}'', there was a scene with Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} and Wrestling/{{Lita}} backstage with Edge talking about how ''[=SmackDown!=]'' [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure General Manager]] Wrestling/TeddyLong putting him in a Street Fight against Wrestling/{{Batista}} can't happen and that he was going to talk some sense into Batista and that he was going to put some security on the door so nobody could come into the room. Edge walked out and the room got briefly dark before lighting up again and [[Wrestling/{{Boogeyman}} THE BOOGEYMAN]] popped up from behind the couch! He told the scared Lita, "Close your eyes! [[CatchPhrase I'm the Boogeyman, and I'm coming to get you!"]], sending Lita screaming from the room.

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* On the November 11, 2005 ''Wrestling/{{WWESmackDown}}'', there was a scene with Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} and Wrestling/{{Lita}} backstage with Edge talking about how ''[=SmackDown!=]'' [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure General Manager]] Wrestling/TeddyLong putting him in a Street Fight against Wrestling/{{Batista}} can't happen and that he was going to talk some sense into Batista and that he was going to put some security on the door so nobody could come into the room. Edge walked out and the room got briefly dark before lighting up again and [[Wrestling/{{Boogeyman}} THE BOOGEYMAN]] popped up from behind the couch! He told the scared Lita, "Close your eyes! [[CatchPhrase I'm the Boogeyman, and I'm coming to get you!"]], you!", sending Lita screaming from the room.
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*In ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', Hopper and his gang don't appear until they break into the underground hideout in the ant hill and are referred to as “they” and “them” by the ants.

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