"A Bogeyman can be spotted by quickly looking through a knothole in
a wooden partition. If a Bogeyman is on the other side, one might catch
the dull gleam of his eye before he has time to move away."



Special thanks to Encyclopedia Mythica for the helpful advice above (no relation to
ENCYCLOPEDIA HORRIFICA!). Indeed, the Bogeyman has taken many forms
over the years, and you might not even know him if you saw him.

Example: No doubt, you've met Oogie Boogie from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Well, some would argue that he's too ghostlike to be a Bogeyman.
ENCYCLOPEDIA HORRIFICA would disagree. As a rule, anything with a
thousand bugs in its tummy qualifies for Monster of the Month status.

No monstrous bonus features this month, but see pages 90 & 91 in your trusty E.H. for a truly ghoulish gallery of Bogeymen. And now that 2007 is gasping its final dying breath, take a stroll down Memory Lane with the ghosts of retired monsters past.