Who should play him in the inevitable Scary Stories adaptation?

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Maggie Gyllenhaal

brendan fraiser

I read this story 15 years ago and that illustration is always the first thing that comes to mind when I'm doing wilderness camping I fucking hate it.

>>80649237
I'm honestly dreading the day someone inevitability adapts this. There's no way they'll get the art style right and they'll probably try to shoehorn in some bullshit plot that adds nothing to the project.

Basically it'll be the Killing Joke again.

>>80649237
>inevitable Scary Stories adaptation
Please no. They already butchered the book when they changed the illustrations, we don't need to make it worse.

>>80649237
Which story was your favorite, /tv/?

Mine was High Beams. Despite it not being all that scary it was poignant enough to stay with me after all these years. I'm also partial to Harold and "Me Tie Dough-ty Walker"

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>>80649237
>this was marketed towards children
Really noodles the kaboodle

>>80649463
Harold was my favorite.
Top spooky

>>80649463
Harold the scarecrow and the one where the girl went to a foreign county with her mother and her mother died and they covered the whole thing up. that shit was so nightmarish as a kid

>>80649237
>>80649519
Post more illustrations

jonah hill for doughty walker

>>80649463
The Wendigo. Jesus fucking Christ it's probably the reason why I'm a shut-in.

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>>80649588

Who even did the illustrations? They were so fucking disgusting but I couldn't look away, they were brilliant

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>>80649793
Stephen Gammal.

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>>80649966

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this is the illustration that scared me the most, funny because the story itself is pretty humorous

>>80649638
Check out the short story, "The Wendigo" by Algernon Blackwood. It's the full version of that story.

WTF IM TRYING TO FALL ASLEEP HERE

>>80649463
I wonder if they'd still hold up if i read them now. Apparently the new versions of the books got different illustrations now, totally ruined. The pictures set the tone for the stories and gave you a starting point for imagining whatever it was about.


But Harold was terrifying. The Thing bothered me for a long, long time.

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>>80649571
Yes. It's weird how in a book with all this supernatural stuff that story got to me on a deeper level than almost of the others. Pic related is from, "The Bed by the Window." It flew over my head as a kid but as an adult I realize that it's less a scary story and more a dark over that gets darker the older you get.

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>>80650940
This fucked me up because I shared a room with my sibling and I had the bed by the window and we'd fight over it.
>mfw my window view was also just a brick wall

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>zombie breaks through your window, takes a junk out of your neck and runs away
>he always comes back
fuck this entire book

>>80649463
>>80649561
>>80649571
>>80649966

I still can't believe Harold was stretching the one brother's skin out on the roof and that it was explicitly described in, again, a book for children.

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The scariest image hasn't been posted. I'm disappointed /tv/

What was that one story if the guy who went out into the swamp at night because he didn't believe in monsters and was never found again?

Also >>80650940 give me a quick run down of this story

>>80651964
2/10 would not bang

>>80652208
Just from memory,
There's a nursing home and the beds are lined up against a wall with only one window. The bed with the window is given to the next person in line after the current owner dies, so the last person in line does some shady shit to all the others so he eventually gets moved to the window.

All that's outside is a brick wall, and now he's the target of everyone's jealousy because he now has the window.

>>80649237
the illustrations were kino as fuck.

the new version fucking sucks, it looks as if they got someone from devianart/dumblr to do the new images.

>>80652456
Be careful what you wish for sort of thing?

>>80651684
>>80649966
Holy fuck this,i had so many sleepless nights over this story.

Wasn't there one about a vampire sneaking in through a window too?

>>80652614
Yeah.

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>same illustrator

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>>80649966
Daily reminder that they changed the art

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>>80652710
I wouldn't want to see inside his mind, or experience his nightmares.

>>80650893

Yeah, the illustrations played a huge part in why the book was spooky. Not saying the stories weren't good, but they lose something without the proper illustrations.

I half expected the old books to be gone by now, taken off the shelves at school because everyone's a fucking pussy nowadays. But I was pleasantly surprised when I saw my cousin a few years back (she was like 9 at the time) carrying a taped up copy of Scary Stories that she got from school.

>>80649966
Literally the only one that stuck with me. Nightmares for literal years. I honestly couldnt believe they let a tiny babby like me rent those books.

>>80652926

This is literally me when literally discussion my literal terror in regards to this literal story.

Literally.

>>80652456

doesn't he poison them all to get the window

>>80652740
what the fuck
why would they do that

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>>80652926
>mfw he sees Harold on the roof

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>>80649333
trips confirm

>>80653033
I believe so. It's been like 20 years since I read it though.

>>80653100
Wasn't he rearing up like a horse or something? That's what spooked me the most.

>>80649407
>There's no way they'll get the art style right
The reprints of the series don't even have the same artstyle anymore

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>those illustrations

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>>80649333

>>80653668
You can still get a reprint of the old books in a one whole book format.
I had one but my friend borrowed it three years ago and never gave it back.

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>who's got my toe?
>who's got my coins?
>whos got my liver?

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>>80653100
>that part at night when they can hear him walking on the roof

>>80649237
Who plays Harold?

>>80652710
Even his happy books were fucking disturbing and disgusting.

>>80653973

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>>80653973
>>80654084

Whoops fucked that post all up, but what about Patton Oswalt?

Patton Oswalt

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>>80654155
Probably a couple characters his wife could play too

>>80652456
not only that, but the person with the bedside window was always telling them elaborate stories about all of the interesting things they were seeing out the window. so the jealous person poisoned them to take the window only to find that all of the stories that made them so jealous were made-up.

>>80654262
Brootal

>>80652593
its because pussy ass kids got scared from the og images but thats the point

the og artwork has so much soul.

>>80650893
The stories are mostly old urban legends on folktales, they aren't the most incredible horror fiction ever written. But for a kid's book they're not bad at all.

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>>80654224
>nosleep podcast
Absolutely disgusting.

>>80649463
I still occasionally check the back seat of my car on a night drive because of High Beams

c l a s s i c

>>80652740
those sick fucks

>>80654224
>not LORE
idiot