The guy who sits by me at work has:

• Trypanophobia (fear of needles)
• Acrophobia (fear of heights)
• Hemophobia (fear of blood)
• Entomophobia / Insectophobia (fear of insects) - seriously; even butterflies
• Muriphobia (fear of  mice)

I know he has these things, and because I am a bad person, I tease him for it.  He can hold a job and live normally, so these fears are not debilitating.  They are, however, downright banal to some other phobias.  Here are some that really caught my attention:

Acerophobia- Fear of sourness.

Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.

Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions.

Ambulophobia- Fear of walking.

Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- Fear of flowers.

Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things.

Aulophobia- Fear of flutes.

Aurophobia- Fear of gold.

Barophobia- Fear of gravity.

Bibliophobia- Fear of books

Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women.

Catoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors.  (All vampires must have this)

Cherophobia- Fear of gaiety.

Chirophobia- Fear of hands.

Chromophobia or Chromatophobia- Fear of colors.

Cypridophobia or Cypriphobia or Cyprianophobia or Cyprinophobia - Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease.

Deipnophobia- Fear of dining or dinner conversations.

Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body.

Dutchphobia- Fear of the Dutch.

Eosophobia- Fear of dawn or daylight. (again, vampires)

Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge.

Ergophobia- Fear of work.

Geniophobia- Fear of chins.  (CHINS?!)

Gymnophobia- Fear of nudity. (see:  Arrested Development)

Hellenologophobia- Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words.  (Is it just me, or is this a really mean name for it?)

Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.

Kathisophobia- Fear of sitting down.

Lutraphobia- Fear of otters.

Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.

Omphalophobia- Fear of belly buttons.

Ouranophobia or Uranophobia- Fear of heaven.

Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the 13th.

Phagophobia- Fear of swallowing or of eating or of being eaten.

Phobophobia- Fear of phobias.

Pogonophobia- Fear of beards.

Samhainophobia: Fear of Halloween.

Scabiophobia- Fear of scabies.

Symbolophobia- Fear of symbolism.

Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons.  (What the heck is a Walloon, you ask?  Walloons are a French-speaking people who live in Belgium, principally in Wallonia.)

OK, so this is but a snippet of all the phobias out there, so if you are looking for some really scary Halloween ideas, might I suggest decorating your house in hands?  Dressing up like a beard being swallowed?  Putting a picture of a beautiful woman standing on a stack of books on your porch?

Come now, I already said I was a terrible person.  And just to even the playing field a bit, here are some things I personally have an aversion to:

• cotton balls
• touching dry towels with dry hands
• centipedes, millipedes & earwigs
• dirty teeth