bugbear (n.)
- affliction
- anathema
- bane
- bogey
- bogeyman
- bogy
- booger
- boogeyman
- bug
- bugaboo
- bugger
- burden
- calamity
- curse
- death
- destruction
- detestation
- disease
- dud
- evil
- ghost
- ghoul
- grievance
- harm
- hate
- hobgoblin
- horror
- incubus
- infliction
- monster
- nemesis
- nightmare
- ogre
- ogress
- pest
- pestilence
- phantom
- plague
- revenant
- scarecrow
- scarer
- scourge
- specter
- succubus
- terror
- thorn
- torment
- vampire
- vexation
- visitation
- werewolf
- woe