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5 Terrifying ‘Doctor Who’ Monsters To Inspire (and Haunt) Your Imagination
From shadows to our own voices, ‘Doctor Who’ proves it’s the everyday horrors that are the most unforgettable.
Non-members, read here.
For a family show, Doctor Who sure has its scary moments.
It’s the only show that made me hide in the bathroom until it was over when I was a kid.
(The CGI scorpion in “The Lazarus Experiment,” by the way. Don’t judge. I hadn’t hit double digits yet.)
But there was only one episode that, for the longest time, I refused to rewatch. The two-parter “Silence in the Library”/”Forest of the Dead,” with its shambling skeleton astronauts and unsettling digital worlds, made me sleep with the nightlight on. Yet, as I’ve gotten older and started writing my own stories, I realise how brilliant it is.
So much horror can be carved out of the unknown. Even more can be carved out of something mundane like shadows. That’s why the following monsters all linger in the minds of Doctor Who fans.
