I’ve never read that book and I probably shouldn’t because I had that fear as a teenager. I didn’t like to sit up in my room at night because of an irrational fear (I fully knew it was irrational but still couldn’t shake it) that some sort of alien, ghost, or monster woukd see me and grab me. Even now, the fear creeps up occasionally at night that if I look out the window, a person’s face will be there. And I live on a high floor of an apartment building