pyrophobia

“I checked the oven was switched off for the fifth time. ... I suffered pyrophobia but no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t seem to rid myself of it.” They Said My Fire Fears Were Silly, But My Worst Nightmare Came True; As Told to Joanna Singleton; The Daily Mirror (London, UK); Mar 20, 2007. “Piero de Cosimo is said to have been ... so pyrophobic that he rarely cooked his food, subsisting mostly on hard-boiled eggs that he prepared 50 at a time while heating glue for his art.” Carol Vogel; A Renaissance Master, His Quirks and His Art; The New York Times; Jul 25, 2014.