The monster in the closet/under the bed

[Strangebuddy]

I have a more dramatic version of this I am planning out but I figured the basic premise could be spun a number of ways.

A woman comes home to see her family. While she's there, her little sister or brother tells her that there is a monster under her bed or in the closet and they are scared of it. Her parents tell her to just drop the issue but she decides it would be fun to help her sibling out and agrees to switch rooms at the last second.

That night, she wakes up to a scratching on the bottom of the bed or the closet door. She the sees a hand emerge followed by a pair of glowing eyes. She starts to scream but is instantly muffled. She reaches for a light switch and the light won't come on.

The monster comes over to her and tears the sheet away. When it sees her, it grunts and says that she's not supposed to be there and starts back to the closet or under the bed to go look for her sibling. The woman's scared but tries to delay the monster and grabs its arm. She eventually gets the monster to allow her to speak and ask questions. The monster believes its duty is to scare kids for noble reasons and reveals it scared the girl when she was younger but she's too grown up for it to do that anymore.

The monster goes off but it's too late for it to find her sibling. The next night, the woman hides under the bed or in the closet while their sibling sleeps. The monster practically stumbles over her and drags her away to another room or its own home. The monster tells her there is no stopping it this time when the woman takes another tactic and tries to get to tell her why she can't be scared anymore. The monster actually gets embarrassed, not wanting to admit that scaring someone going through puberty could get very awkward and once they become an adult and sex gets involved...

The monster once again misses its chance and takes the girl back warning her. The last night, the woman has a devilish idea and convinces her parents to let her sibling go to a sleepover. She hides and waits for the monster to come back. When it does:

"What are you doing here, girl?"

"Oh, adult things...nothing you'd be interested in. Now unless you want to watch, go away."

The monster is ticked and yanks away the sheet, discovering that indeed, the woman has her hands in her panties, moving eagerly as she stares at it.

"You know, it's a lot better with a partner."

 

[Strangebuddy]

Sorry for the double post:

Had another idea. A family moves away, leaving all of their closet and bed monsters sitting on their hands. The house remains abandoned until it is renovated into a sorority house for the town's college. Now all of the monsters have a house full of co-eds to deal with.

Finally, a young woman (18) is still afraid of the monster under her bed. She takes all sorts of precautions to keep it from getting her but hasn't seen it in years. Then one day, she runs across an attractive guy/gal who has a lot in common with her. They meet up a few times and eventually they go to her bedroom while her parents are gone her beau chuckles at her precautions and the girl reluctantly gets rid of a few of them only to have a scraping noise rise from under her bed while she is in the throes of passion.

 

[atariblue]

Does the monster have a monstrously large cock?

 

[Strangebuddy]

Well it's Lit so length starts at 8 inches unless it's a humiliation story or there's some cuckolding going on. So I'm gonna say there's a pretty good chance.

Though maybe one of them's female...and still has a giant cock.

 

[BurningMonkey]

Are tentacles involved?

 

[Hypoxia]

Are tentacles involved?

Well, it's a monster, so sure, tentacles are just about mandatory. But what color? Hey, I just came up with a new category: BBT! Yes, Sherri screamed like Fay Wray as the Big Black Tentacles inched toward her -- but those screams turned to deep fevered moans at their touch...

 

[Strangebuddy]

Lol. Seriously though, they can be just about anything. Tentacles, tree people Japanese women with really long hair that crawl under your sheets, goblins, vampires, banshees, anything your imagination can create

 

[Hypoxia]

Lol. Seriously though, they can be just about anything. Tentacles, tree people Japanese women with really long hair that crawl under your sheets, goblins, vampires, banshees, anything your imagination can create

Oh come on now, how many of those would bother to hide under your bed or in your closet? Most of those wouldn't need to hide.

No, I think we have a special subset of hiding-in-the-bedroom entities. Some are hairy+toothy; some are tentacled; some are nameless, formless, undefined; some are your (or a relative's) evil twin. What comes out of the closet? YOU on a bad day! Or evil-Mommy, twisted Sister, big-balls Brother, Uncle orang-utan, etc. Or maybe just a giant cock or cunt.

But I'll vote for a smiling octopod with long sensuous colorful tentacles. Yeah!

 

[Strangebuddy]

Might want to hold off on the giant cock or cunt (their original purpose is to scare kids after all). Otherwise, I like the suggestions

 

[Sean Renaud]

I don't see any reason to hold off on the giant cock and or cunt. Without boring you with biology an overwhelming majority of animals have. . .internal organs. Telling the gender without getting quite intimate can be difficult depending on the species. Besides pants and skirts exist. Basically this has no problems that don't come with banging the babysitter.

It's basically "This Ain't Monster's Inc." My snags with this are mostly stuff that is ignorable. The big ones here being why doesn't the girl remember the monster scaring her? Do they suck out your memory some how? There is a fairly sizable difference between growing up and not believing and not remembering. I promise you if the four armed, red eyed, venom soaked fangs of my childhood monster showed up today I'd know exactly who he was. Even if I didn't believe because monsters aren't real.

Second why do they stop. In real life monsters stop because you get old enough to realize that's just the light refracted off Venus swamp gas. But if I've seen Alien. Real monsters that bleed acid are fucking scary even if you're an entire unit of armed to the teeth Space Marines!

Why does sex come in after they hit puberty/become adults. (Might want to be cautious with how you phrase that one since puberty comes before legal age) Scary is scary and while that's a special kind of scary there are other things. Shit do you threaten to eat the babies of parents?

Why is the monster shy about it? Are humans not attractive to monsters or what not? I'm not going to lie. If I was the monster under Jessica Alba's bed there would have been a goddamn calendar sitting next to my portal gun. She'd be approximately .1 seconds past 18 when I tore her clothing off and went on to the next level of scary. Maybe less depending on my reflex speed.

Over all I think this story is a lot of fun and a damn good set up.

 

[Strangebuddy]

Oh, well I thought hypoxia meant an giant cock that wasn't attached to anything just a big ole sentient penis that walked around on its scrotum. Or a giant cunt that flew around on its huge fluttering labia.

The not remembering o figured would be because the monster might be using some different tactics or having made some modifications. Her brother isn't scared of something he can't see so the monster picked up some glowing eyes and let its hair grow out so it can drape it down over him and tickle him till he wakes up.

The girl doesn't remember her monster since she stuffed those memories away and the monster is acting differently, in other words.

While I'd be cool with a story about straight up monsters who just go ahead and continue tormenting kids into their adult years, I figured the monsters take their job very seriously and see themselves as people who work with kids. It would be like a first grade teacher taking a smoke break and catching one of his former students (now 18) taking it from behind. They acknowledge it might happen but they don't want to witness it.

Additionally, I figured the monsters see their job as one that has a clear end. They start scaring kids so they have a tangible fear they have to face to help focus on until their minds are ready for more. Complex fears and concepts. They help the kids learn to trust their parents and come up with their own safety plans and methods of "defeating" the monster. When the kids are no longer scared and are ready to handle more complex fears, the monsters retire. They never hurt the kids and can actually be pretty affectionate about them (so baby sitter is actually a fairly good comparison).

 

[Sean Renaud]

I guess I think less literally than you on occasion. That's my bust. I guess one could change it's looks.

As for why they stop messing with adults they don't really explain that in Monsters Inc either and most people would agree that's a damn fine movie. Like I said my main grips are ignorable if you like.

Your explanation on why they eventually stop is interesting. It just requires a very complicated world with lots of supernatural beings floating around. Something similar to Rise of the Guardians or even Nightmare Before Christmas where the monsters are largely kept in check because there are other forces in play, or perhaps they are genuinely a force for good. That's what I'm getting from your description is that monsters serve a very real and very good purpose in preparing humans for adult life. And it's not like either of those stories really explored the why beyond the simple fact that it was. Jack Skelington gets one night. Sandy Claws get one night. The Easter Bunny gets one night and it's just that simple.

 

[Hypoxia]

Oh, well I thought hypoxia meant an giant cock that wasn't attached to anything just a big ole sentient penis that walked around on its scrotum. Or a giant cunt that flew around on its huge fluttering labia.

Those are about what I had in mind. Disembodied giant genitalia.

As for why we outgrow monsters -- it's like Puff the Magic Dragon. We find new things to love and fear. Here we need stubborn monsters that won't go away, won't let us grow up, won't let go of our evolving world. Best way to do that is to evolve with us. Early monsters aren't explicitly sexual but they get pretty horny when we hit 18 in LIT fantasyland -- they evolve with our sexuality. It's a survival mechanism. Hey, what monster wants to die?

 

[Sean Renaud]

It's been years since I saw Puff. . .but couldn't Puff effect the real world. I mean to the point of you had to either believe this little boy could fly and set things on fire with his mind or he was riding an invisible dragon? Sure both are absurd but I'm. . .gonna be quiet and stop questioning the mechanics while contemplating every possible definition of quiet as a church mouse.

Apologies.

 

[Hypoxia]

Had another idea. A family moves away, leaving all of their closet and bed monsters sitting on their hands. The house remains abandoned until it is renovated into a sorority house for the town's college. Now all of the monsters have a house full of co-eds to deal with.

This is a kewl one with lots of room for sexual hilarity. It was a big family with lots of bedroom monsters. With nothing else to do during the house's vacant neglect, they bred incessantly, producing yet more monsters. Now there's an over-abundance of monsters for the sorority house, at least one for every bed, every closet, every bathroom cupboard, and they overflow into the kitchen and pantry too.

What was the monsters' original purpose? To help kids transition to puberty. What do they do now with a batch of post-pubescent young women? I guess they'll have to learn new roles, yeah. That will be the Author's Challenge -- find something to keep the monsters occupied.
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Something totally different: Monster-Under-The-Bed and Monster-In-The-Closet are merely job categories with postings in the Spirits' Work Exchange. They specialize: transition-to-puberty monsters, anxiety-monsters, wet-dream-monsters, guilt-monsters, etc. Some monsters are assigned slots by mistake. Hilarity ensues.

 

[Strangebuddy]

The ghost and spectre club (of f*cking)

Edit; sorry, meant to start a new thread.

Did have an idea about a guy taking a monster in the closet as his prom date...but it didn't quite seem to gel with this thread. Once again I apologize

 

[Hypoxia]

Did have an idea about a guy taking a monster in the closet as his prom date...but it didn't quite seem to gel with this thread.

That is a nifty idea. But I instinctively visualize closet monsters as masculine. So we either have a gay male student with a same-sex date, or an outsider female student who dates her closet monster out of lonely desperation. In either case, the masculine closet monster (MCM) can morph into an almost-normal-looking humanoid guy -- almost, except for the vivid claws on his toes, his absurdly long tongue, and his occasional Tourettes outbursts.

Let's posit that the superficially studly MCM decides to devote itself to his date. Anyone who tries to cut in is quickly devoured -- hey, he's a MONSTER, right? The devouring is not blatant. Nobody notices. Cue the horror.

But we can flip the paradigm. The rare female closet monster (FCM) goes as the date of a guy or gal student, a social outcast. The FCM is HAWT-looking but still with claws, long tongue, and weird outbursts. And she's oh-so-lonely. Those cutting-in on her are stealthily lured outside and fucked to (eternal) death. Or she sucks-up their souls and leaves them as mindless zombis wandering back into the prom. Does anybody notice?