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Fear of a Black Planet
Fear of a Black Planet is Public Enemy's third studio album (Def Jam/Columbia, April 1990), produced by the Bomb Squad, featuring "Fight the Power" and "911 Is a Joke," selling over 1.5 million copies by July 1990.
Fear of cancer
Fear of cancer (carcinophobia, ICD-11 MG24.0) ranges from common population cancer worry to clinical nosophobia, illness anxiety disorder, and fear of cancer recurrence in survivors; treated with CBT.
Fear of cardiovascular disease
Fear of cardiovascular disease, known as cardiophobia or heart-focused anxiety, is a specific phobia involving repeated chest pain and palpitations with fear of heart attack, classified as ICD-11 code MG24.7.
Fear of crime
Fear of crime is the emotional dread or anxiety about crime and crime-related symbols, studied since 1967. Distinct from perceived risk, it correlates only weakly with actual crime rates, is measured mainly by contested survey indicators, and is reduced by urban design interventions with gender-specific effects.
Fear of death or dying
Fear of death or dying (death anxiety), ICD-11 code MG23, is fear of one's own and others' mortality; a transdiagnostic construct linked to anxiety, depression, and hypochondriasis, measured mainly by the Templer Death Anxiety Scale.
Fear of disease
Fear of disease is excessive anxiety about having or acquiring illness. It includes nosophobia, fear of one specific disease, and illness anxiety disorder, the DSM-5 name for hypochondria.
Fear of flying
Fear of flying (aerophobia, aviophobia) is a situational specific phobia affecting an estimated 10–40% of people, about 25 million U.S. adults. Treated mainly with exposure-based CBT and virtual reality exposure therapy.
Fear of Flying (novel)
Fear of Flying is a 1973 debut novel by Erica Jong, whose frank account of the poet Isadora Wing became a #1 bestseller and sold over 20 million copies.
Fear of God
Fear of God, also known as fear of the Lord, is a religious concept joining awe, reverence, and dread of God with obedience and right conduct.
Fear of human immunodeficiency virus
Fear of human immunodeficiency virus (ICD-11 MG24.1), also called HIV phobia, serophobia, or AIDS phobia, is a classified disease-fear condition: persistent, irrational fear of contracting HIV despite negative tests, first described 1983, closely tied to HIV stigma and testing anxiety.
Fear of mental disorder
Fear of mental disorder (ICD-11 MG24.J) is a chapter 24 category classifying fear of developing a mental disorder as a health-status factor, distinct from hypochondriasis (6B23) and bodily distress disorder, alongside sibling disease-fear codes.
Fear of missing out
Fear of missing out (FoMO/FOMO) is the apprehension that others are having rewarding experiences without you, defined by Przybylski et al. 2013 via self-determination theory, linked to heavy social media use, and countered by JOMO.
Fear of Music
Fear of Music is Talking Heads' third studio album, released August 3, 1979 on Sire Records, produced by Brian Eno, recorded in a Long Island City loft, peaking at No. 21 on the Billboard 200 and featuring Life During Wartime.
Fear of Rain
Fear of Rain is a 2021 American psychological thriller, also shot as I Saw a Man with Yellow Eyes, written and directed by Castille Landon. Madison Iseman plays Rain Burroughs, a teen with schizophrenia who suspects her neighbor kidnapped a child; Lionsgate released it February 12, 2021.
Fear of the dark
Fear of the dark, clinically nyctophobia (also scotophobia, lygophobia), is a specific phobia of darkness causing panic, insomnia, and avoidance; common in children, treated with CBT and exposure therapy.
Fear of the Dark (Iron Maiden album)
Fear of the Dark, Iron Maiden's ninth studio album (1992, EMI), co-produced by Steve Harris and Martin Birch at Barnyard Studios, Essex. Its title track became a live staple, and it was Bruce Dickinson's last album until Brave New World (2000).
Fear Questionnaire
The Fear Questionnaire is a brief self-report scale introduced by Isaac Marks and A.M. Mathews in 1979, measuring phobic fear and avoidance across agoraphobia, social phobia, and blood-injury phobia.
Fear Street
Fear Street is R.L. Stine's young-adult horror book series launched in 1989, set in cursed Shadyside; over 80 million copies sold, revived 2014, adapted by Netflix in 2021 and 2025.
Fear Street Part One: 1994
Fear Street Part One: 1994 is a 2021 Netflix teen slasher directed by Leigh Janiak, first of a trilogy based on R.L. Stine's books, set in cursed Shadyside, Ohio, starring Kiana Madeira and Olivia Scott Welch.
Fear Street Part Three: 1666
Fear Street Part Three: 1666 (2021) is Leigh Janiak's Netflix horror film concluding the Fear Street trilogy, revealing the origins of Sarah Fier's curse in a 17th-century Shadyside settlement.
Fear Street Part Two: 1978
Fear Street Part Two: 1978 is a 2021 Netflix teen slasher film directed by Leigh Janiak, the middle film of the Fear Street trilogy, set at Camp Nightwing where a possessed Shadysider goes on a killing spree, homaging Friday the 13th and Sleepaway Camp.
Fear Street: Prom Queen
Fear Street: Prom Queen is a 2025 Netflix teen slasher directed by Matt Palmer, based on R.L. Stine's 1992 novel The Prom Queen. Set in 1988 Shadyside, a masked killer targets prom queen candidates; released May 23, 2025, to poor reviews.
Fear Strikes Out
Fear Strikes Out (1957) is a Paramount biographical drama, the directorial debut of Robert Mulligan and producing debut of Alan J. Pakula, adapted from Jimmy Piersall's 1955 autobiography about his mental breakdown, starring Anthony Perkins and Karl Malden.
Fear the Spotlight
Fear the Spotlight: 2024 third-person horror adventure by husband-and-wife studio Cozy Game Pals, published by Blumhouse Games as its first title. Vivian explores Sunnyside High after a séance, solving puzzles and evading a spotlight-headed monster in PS1-style visuals.
Fear the Walking Dead
Fear the Walking Dead is AMC's 2015–2023 post-apocalyptic horror series, the first spin-off of The Walking Dead, created by Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson, running eight seasons from a Los Angeles prequel to a concurrent crossover storyline.
Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462
Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462 is AMC's 16-part 2015–2016 web series following airline passengers during the outbreak's start; its crash and survivors Alex and Jake cross into Fear the Walking Dead season 2's "Ouroboros".
Fear-potentiated startle
Fear-potentiated startle is the increase in the startle reflex when a cue paired with threat is present, first shown in rats in 1951 and used to test antianxiety drugs.
Feargal Sharkey
Feargal Sharkey (born 1958, Derry) is a Northern Irish singer, former Undertones frontman of "Teenage Kicks", UK number-one solo artist with "A Good Heart" (1985), ex-CEO of UK Music, OBE, and now a prominent UK clean-river campaigner.
Fearing the Black Body
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, Sabrina Strings, NYU Press 2019: argues anti-fat bias, especially toward Black women, arose from Enlightenment racism and Protestant moralism, not medicine; ASA award winner.
Fearless
Fearless (2016 Netflix documentary series, Portuguese-language) follows Brazilian PBR bull riders from Barretos to the Las Vegas World Finals; six episodes, directed by Michael John Warren, Boardwalk Pictures, premiered August 19, 2016.