From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1953.

"Most fears are phony."  From Collier's, 1948.

From Collier's, 1948.

From The New Movie Magazine, 1935.

"We are frightened and are running away."  From Short Stories for Little Folks by Catherine Bryce, 1910.

Here's a precursor to the band name Tears for Fears.  "Go ahead and cry my dearest, it's good for you.  It can be a relief from fear."  From Dark Shadows episode 852.

"Maybe if I run fast nothing will catch me. ... I'm went so fast that I turned into a ghost!!!"  From Monsters News, 2012.

From Woroni, 1984.

"Night of fear."  From Spellbound. 1976.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)

Another cheery message from an old yearbook:

"For many the agony is now over and they couldn't be happier; but for others it leaves a certain sense of pain, depression, and fear."

From Elon's 1978 yearbook.

"Around her swirled the current of a life of terror in the shadowy byways of the underworld."  From Wid's Daily, 1920.

"Facing the future without fear."  From Awake magazine, 1958.

"Profs and parents scared of exams too" -- fake news from Florida Flambeau, 1959.

"It seemed as if that little voice inside had fairly shouted in his ears: 'I am afraid.'"  From The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel by Thorton W. Burgess and illustrated by Harrison Cady, 1919.