I've never understood why people fear demons so much. My religion tells me that, if they exist at all, they're doing G-d's work. More than that, however, I grew up with friendly demons. I remember only one book in particular.
It's about some foolish Polish demons who, after hearing how awesome America is, decide to come here. They get locked up in storage for a couple decades and are completely freaked when they come out. Nobody cares about their mischief =[. They decide to go out and scare people...on Halloween night. They end up being scared themselves. Eventually, they figure they can just fuck with computers to annoy people =]]
There's a running joke/collection of folktales among me Jewfolk that are about Chelm, a Polish town in which everybody is a complete moron. Like, literally drowning fish moronic. I don't know what people thought about the real Chelm, but stories are sure fun :) It was wiped clean of Jews by the Holocaust, of course. That's m'people's history.
And now for some demons and demonesques :D
Fungus the Bogeyman by Vinilla Burnham at
http://www.vin-burnham.com Also Vinilla's
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Grim Grinning Ghosts from Disney's Haunted Mansion, one of my favorite places. At the end of the ride you go past a big mirror and you see yourself next to a ghost that comes home with you =D