Artist Delivers Haunting Illustrations of Phobias and Fears

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Everyone is afraid of something. Those fears can be tied to real things like needles, spiders and closed spaces or they can be abstract and include fear of failure, of being forgotten and more.

One artist decided to face those fears and phobias by illustrating them. Shawn Coss presented his views on the most common phobias and fears, with the final outcome being both haunting and amazing.

1. Bogyphobia – Fear of the Boogeyman

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2. Arachnophobia – Fear of spiders

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3. Trypanophobia – Fear of needles

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4. Trypophobia – Phobia of irregular patterns

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5. Claustrophobia – Fear of confined places

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6. Nyctophobia – Fear of the dark

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7. Automatonophobia – Fear of human-like figures

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8. Taphephobia – Fear of being buried alive

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9. Ophidiophobia- Fear of snakes

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10. Athazagoraphobia – Fear of being forgotten or ignored

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11. Pyrophobia – Fear of fire

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