Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: chipper
  • Music: Thea Gilmore, "This Town."

From A to Z in the InCryptid Alphabet: B.

B is for BOGEYMEN.

Bogeymen like dark places, like attics and basements and the back of your closet. Bogeymen are closely related to humans, but they branched off right around the time that Homo erectus was figuring out how to use rocks as weapons, and they've never looked back. Bogeymen have a great fondness for secrets. If there's something going on, odds are good that your local bogeyman knows about it, and would be happy to share what he knows...for a price. No bogeyman ever worked cheap, or failed to look for the most profitable angle.

"Bogeyman" is gender-neutral. Female bogeymen are just as dangerous as male bogeymen, and just as likely to be hiding underneath your bed.

Sleep well.
Tags: discount armageddon, incryptid
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  • 33 comments

klwilliams

February 9 2012, 17:50:04 UTC 5 years ago

I'm so glad I read this in the morning. The goblins under the bed were my earliest terror. No, they haven't gone away.

lauowolf

February 9 2012, 19:32:35 UTC 5 years ago

Yep.
It's a generational thing too.
Apparently my aunt could blackmail my mother into doing things by refusing to look under the bed if she didn't.
Which my next oldest sister did with me.
The Kid, though, is an only, and so had to investigate her own dark corners.

btw
appropriate decor here: http://lauowolf.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/and-now-they-are-starting-to-come-out-from-under-there/

madfilkentist

February 9 2012, 19:52:42 UTC 5 years ago

Now I'm thinking of a possible Susan Sto Helit (Pratchett's Hogfather) crossover.

lauowolf

February 9 2012, 20:26:58 UTC 5 years ago

my work here is done