{"text":"Would've been useful when I was about eight,' I said. 'I used to have wicked nightmares.' I did, too: stupid dreams about being chased by Elmo. A psycho Elmo with eyes like that Chucky doll. I'd wake up screaming and Vicky would come running in and ask what the nightmare was about. I never told her. I was too embarrassed.","author":"Robin Stevenson","tags":["childhood","chucky","creepy","doll","dream","elmo","embarrassing-moment","gives-me-the-willies","kid","nightmare","parent","psycho","puppet","sesame-street","spooky","stalker","wicked","young-adult"],"id":110492,"author_id":"Robin+Stevenson"}