When I was a little boy, the possibility of monsters, bogeymen and trolls in one's bedroom was, perhaps, slightly more real than it is today.
Maybe you can look back and recall your own experiences with the kid-eating monster in the closet, the sharp-fanged vampire at the window or Freddy Krueger waiting to pull you right out of bed and into his particularly bloody and disturbing version of hell.
In my childhood environment, however, there was one protection against such dangerous intruders that every kid knew would work–hiding under the covers. Yes, no matter how menacing the slavering jaws, fetid fangs or razor-tipped fingers of the adversary, they could not penetrate the barrier of my grandma's quilt, my aunt's porous afghan or someone's ratty army blanket.
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