Submitted By: David Uzumeri

Description: Giant-sized, decapitated, five-eyed version of Aerosmith's lead singer, plus roller-coaster track and various other accoutrements. Mouth is open in a sickening frozen yawn. Hair seems to form a waterfall.

Notes: References to Aerosmith songs have been tricky to make. "Hole In My Soul" has been partially reworked as "Hole In My Head," but since Aerosmith has yet to record a version of "Love Rollercoaster," it may be a while before something really dynamite comes up in this arena.

Submitted By: David Uzumeri

Description: Skin glistening, eyes twinkling with evil, this little beast was seen leaning over the AnimeNation logo, Kilroy-style, around April of 1999. May be wearing some sort of necktie. It is unclear whether its headgear is a baseball cap, a yarmulka, or something entirely unknown to our scientists.

Notes: The head obviously has powers of telepathy that it uses to corrupt anime store executives, because if I was an executive it would not be the first thing I picked to get people to buy products from my store. This trickster must have infiltrated the AnimeNation organization by careful use of its powers...but its motives remain unknown.

Submitted By: Me

Description: Extraterrestrial creature with most of body mass concentrated in head. Body seems to be loosely organized or at least somewhat squishy, like a jellyfish. Perhaps what looks like a torso is actually an elaborately arranged pair of tentacles.

Notes: Amanda Staples, the colleague of mine who inadvertently created this hellion in an experiment gone dreadfully wrong, maintains that it is a "cute baby" and not a monster.

Submitted By: Me

Description: A comic by Pat "PJ" Burns featuring two, possibly four, different characters. Since it has never been positively determined which of these characters is Unlopy (and which is the "Jelopy" referred to early on), "Unlopy" must be considered a collective Nightmare consisting of the Doug-ish figure, the warped, oddly bulged chap, the pig/hog monster, and the final, ominous face.

Notes: As my mother put it, "I think somebody likes drugs..."

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Submitted By: David Uzumeri

Description: Cheery-eyed pop bottle. Speaks in tongues.

Notes: Originally located on the homepage of the Internet's own personal near-nightmare, Seanbaby Reiley. As even Seanbaby acknowledges, Kora! is only "slightly scary." However, when one factors in the quantity of cola likely present in a human-sized bottle, and the fact that soda is bad for your teeth, he becomes a bit more worrying.  By any definition Kora! is a lesser Nightmare, however.

Submitted By: Me

Description: Tendou is a middle-aged homemaker and former practicing kendo expert; he has the ability to transform into an enormous, superpowerful daemonic head that can intimidate even the most stable warrior.

Notes: In our dimension, Tendou would probably qualify as a martial arts master. In his home plane most everyone is on the level of a demigod and he was probably forced to evolve this new form as an emergency technique. Like so many adaptive behaviors, though, this has become addictive, and the time may come when Tendou realizes it is unnecessary and impractical to return to his human state..