What do you fear?

Fear. Nearly everyone has some sort of fear, whether it's spiders, dark, or even something simple such as fear of failure. I'm a weird one. I love spiders, snakes, dark and creepy places... I blame my cousins for taking me on thrill rides and haunted houses at carnivals when I was no older than 6... but change, I can handle change, but something about doing something so out of my comfort zone scares me. I like to know what to expect and what I'm doing, but I don't let that stop me from moving forward.

When writing horror, I like to explore the different fears, trying to create the right sense of emotion and fright in every character and scene. So, today I thought I'd list a few of the familiar, interesting and weird phobias that people can have.

• Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.
• Algophobia- Fear of pain.
• Astrophobia- Fear of stars or celestial space.
• Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things.  
• Atelophobia- Fear of imperfection.
• Bibliophobia- Fear of books. - Something I'm definitely not!
• Brontophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.
• Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness.
• Coulrophobia- Fear of clowns.
• Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school.
• Eisoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
• Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.
• Glossophobia- Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
• Gnosiophobia- Fear of knowledge.
• Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
• Mnemophobia- Fear of memories.
• Mythophobia- Fear of myths or stories or false statements.
• Necrophobia- Fear of death or dead things.
• Pentheraphobia- Fear of mother-in-law
• Phasmophobia- Fear of ghosts.
• Sciaphobia- Fear of shadows.
• Scriptophobia- Fear of writing in public.
• Sophophobia- Fear of learning.
• Verbophobia- Fear of words

This is only some of the phobias that were listed. Check out  Phobia List for even more. In my current YA horror, I'm actually using the simple fear of ghosts and the dark, mixed with the fear of memories (mnemophobia) because my character has amnesia. 

So, what are you scared of?