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The darkness from Hunters run it’s not really scary but it’s unbeatable and that makes it scary
I suspect that the number of readers of The Puppet Masters is confined mostly to older readers.
I guess I am older (69) but I immediately thought of Puppet Masters as well. I read it when I was very young and it terrified me. I actually had a nightmare about it not awfully long ago, so it really did make an impression!
The Burgers were also pretty scary.
Yes, I am older and the Puppet Masters upset me when I was younger. So many of the newer boogy-men are copies of the Puppet Masters. The PM represented a subversion of our individuality and personality into a mass mind antithetical to our own aims, personality, and existence.
Most of the rest just want to kill us (although the Posleen also want to eat us) and they can be killed. I don’t fear anything that can be killed. Avoid yes, bit is being subsumed to the point of actively cooperating in my own demise and that of those I love that terrifies me!
Species was pretty horrific.
The Aliens from the Quiet Place.
The Venusian bacteria in Eric Frank Russell’s Three to Conquer.
Dr Who’s Cybermen always spooked me when I was younger…
Oankali from Octavia Butler Xenogenesis books