Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark

Yes! These books scared me shit less when I was a kid,

My mom rented the audiotape version from the library and laughed when I got scared

The girl with the green ribbon story ruined my life

My memories mostly consist of my blankets over my head at night

>>18163823
That one about the rotting corpse in the cellar scared me so much. It was the picture primarily. It fucked me up so much at a young age that my nightmares made my mother take me to therapy
Still gives me the heebee jeebees

Yes, I had several and read them often as a kid. Fueled my horror-loving.

Harold ruffled my jimmies as a youngen

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>>18163823
Still have mine with the og art.

The story with the ghost that progressively got closer to the child every night, eventually raspberrying it was always a favorite of mine. Mostly because the picture gave me nightmares for about 2 months

the og art was fucking amazing , the new art is bull shit

>>18163929
>author's note says that all the stories in the book are fiction
>except this one

I read these with a girl I loved. She was into paranormal stuff like me and we dated for a while. In the end we broke up and it hurts to even look at these.

The one about the heads rolling down the chimney and they or the dog sing scared the hell out of me as the kid. All the artwork scared me too, even for the ones that were meant to be funny, like bloody finger.

>>18163834
5th grade teacher used to play them in class while we did worksheets or whatever. Years later i downloaded them all and listened during a solo road trip in the dark...still scary to a grown ass man

>>18163836
hey which book was this one in...
i had 1 and 2

>>18163962
I'm sorry anon. But I hope you two cherished your time together.

>>18163997
>tfw you went on spooky dates and walked in dark forests at night with only a flashlight.
I miss her.

>>18163980
Link me my dude

>>18163985

Its actually in a book he wrote called In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories/ its really fucking scary check it out

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this was my favorite picture forgot which story it was in book 1

>>18164012
oh my god Jenny!!!! loved that story!! still love it haha

Hell yes...these were my favorite books for a long time. The artwork perfectly complemented the stories, honestly took years for me to find anything else that gave me spoops on par with this stuff. Believe my favorite version of the wendigo shit was in these books

Hey guys. I was posting Scary Stories in that last childhood horrors thread, or whatever it was called. Anyone here want me to post some more?

The one with the spider pimple was nuts.

Did any of these books contain a weird story about a boy digging up a toe on the garden and some dead nut haunting him screaming "GIVE ME BACK MY HAIRY TOE!"?
I think I might have owned these as a kid.

>>18164473
That was indeed one of them, I remember it.

>>18163823
Wasn't the Viper one of them? And the one with the bed by the window?

I also can't remember if Taily-Po was from this, or from something else, but that was quite possibly my favorite horror story as a kid.

>>18164664
yes they were. i believe in More scary stories

taily po? never heard of it

The story that scared me the most was Harold, about the two ranchers who make a doll that comes to life.

The picture that scared me the most was for The Knife, just some creepy guy with a knife. Had a recurring nightmare he was either chasing me or he would sneak up on me and stab me. Fuck.

Protip: a good amount of these stories can be found in this archived bread, courtesy of some rad anon.

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>>18164830
>tfw people call you rad

Y-you too.

>>18164664
The Viper is so stupidly humorous, I still enjoy it.

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>>18164720
Nice present for your mama.

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>>18164997

>>18164021
That was from the story with the priest exorcising a house, right?

>>18165528
Yep.

>>18164997

Fffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuck.

So it was called No, Thanks not The Knife. Huh. And not even that scary of a story. Man that shit ruined me as a kid. I got those books from the school library. I guess the adults figured they weren't that bad.

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>>18165558
But then some other adults went full Soccer Mom and did this. Fuck them.

>>18163823
I fucking loved these. I remember the thing and the toe and a couple more they scared the shit out of me

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>>18164678
How have you never read Tailypo? That book was a staple of my childhood.

Story related:
>be in first or second grade
>always forced to play with neighbor kid I didn't like
>decide to read them, tailypo, with a twist
>get to end of the story, reach behind me, reading the ending line 'Tailypo, tailypo, who's got my tailypo?'
>whisper, '...I do' and pull out a squirrel tail from my back pocket
>neighbor kid screams, runs out of my room
>mfw I didn't even get scolded

Cool shit.

I've been looking for some short story collections.

Anyone have PDFs to any of these books?

>>18165753
http://www.scaryforkids.com/stories-to-tell/

They are all on this website !

Does anyone remember a story from one of these short story books that went something like 'Something was breathing in the dark'

>>18164993
this could be updated to 2016 to be called "the vaper"

>>18165798
>updated

How about no?

>>18163823
i will always remember that chant from the me tie doughty walker story

>>18165798
What's a waper?

>>18166129
Lynchee kinchy colly molly dingo dingo

>>18163823
I remember reading one of them on the bus home from elementary school with friends, turning the page to a picture of a rat-dog thing, and nearly causing an accident because suddenly a load of 3rd graders just shrieked while the bus was in the middle of an intersection.

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>>18166744
Holy shit, someone actually created a sculpture of the fuckin thing

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>>18166777
Related art, I love the 3d interpretations people do

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This fucking book had a few stories that really got to me as a kid. The story The Snow Cave really drove a fear of yetis/sasquatch into me.

Those books were my precious childhood. I used to read them as bedtimes stories to my little cousins when I babysat them.

Somehow I was not only still allowed to babysit after that, but their parents used me as their primary sitter because the cousins loved me sitting with them.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with their other sitter being an old lady who tried to make them (at 5 and 7) watch teletubbies and go to bed at 5:30.

>>18163937

God, the new art is such bullshit.

I'm trolling bookstores to find originals as a 6th grade graduation gift for a horror loving niece.

>>18164105

I wouldn't mind. :)

>>18166146

Sex criminal with a speech impediment.

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>>18166777
Yup that's the one

This was my shit as a kid

>>18163886
>>18164720
My. Fucking. Niggers.

Another one I remember almost viscerally is the highbeams one. It is probably the least disturbingly scary one of them all, but it's like that clown statue creepypasta in that in twists your perception of reality in a minor yet frightening way.

>>18166831
You fucking beautiful bastard. I for the life of me couldn't remember the name of this series or the author, but I remembered this cover.

There was an old woman all skin and bones. Oooooh oooh oooh i think it went something like that

>>18163823
Lying awake for hours staring at the window next to my bed terriffied

>Don't you ever laugh as the hearse goes by,
>For you may be the next one to die.
>They wrap you up in big white sheets
>and cover you from head to feet.
>They put you in a big black box
>And cover you with dirt and rocks.
>All goes well for about a week,
>Until your coffin begins to leak.
>The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,
>The worms play pinochle on your snout,
>They eat your eyes, they eat your nose,
>They eat the jelly between your toes.
>A big green worm with rolling eyes
>Crawls in your stomach and out your sides.
>Your stomach turns a slimy green,
>And pus pours out like whipping cream.
>You'll spread it on a slice of bread,
>And that's what you eat when you are dead

>>18164993
you'll cowards don't even smoke crack

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>>18166777
Yes they did.

I hope in the future we can see more art like this.

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I loved the art, and the stories. Though maybe I liked the art a little more. Anyway - I wish I could draw like this.

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I lucked out and snapped up a hard copy of the entire collection with the original art. I leave it on the coffee table in the living room. Funny that my other favorite childhood series was Sideways Stories from Wayside school, and of course Goosebumps.

Good times.

>>18164678
>taily po? never heard of it
Wow. You're missing out, trust me. I think you might be able to find a reading on YouTube or something.
>>18165730
That. Is. Hilarious.

>>18164993
>G.I. Joe episode niggaz!
>mysterious phone call
>I am da viper

>>18166977
Deadly premonition brah

>>18166949
Lol

in the same vein, does anyone remember this other children's horror anthology, I'm pretty sure it might have been an "Alfred Hitchcock presents" kinda thing? But I can't remember much of it except for one scary ass story that has still stuck with me
>girl goes to old antique store
>looks around, can't find anything
>old puzzle, still sealed is sitting dusty on top of a tall shelf
>picture of what it is is faded and rubbed off
>buys it,figures what the hell
> takes it home, while alone, starts to assemble it
>little by little it comes together
>realizes the main bg pattern is the same pattern as her wallpaper
>the more she assembles the more she realizes it's a picture of her room
>last thing filled in is the window
>she starts freaking out
>fills in the puzzle
>in the window is a grotesque creepy face looking at her
>she turns to her window
>same fucking face in the window
Just everything about the way this story was written terrified me when I was like 9 or 10 and I know nothing else about the book, anyone recognize the story?

>>18168128
That sounds creepy as shit.

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>>18165588
Those changes are unforgivable. They feel like a violation!

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>>18165730
The Tailpo story in Short and Shivery Tales terrified me to death as a child. I was absolutely destroyed by it. Just look at this picture! Still haunts me.

>>18163823
The pictures. I have pretty much no memory of what the stories were about.

>>18163823
First thing that stands out is the when I turned the page and the eyeless chick with the spiders crawling out of it scared the fuck out of me

>>18168478
Meh. 4 spookies out of 10.

>>18165588
goddamnit

harold was such a fucked up story too

>>18166777
>>18167644
it's a sewer rat. and it has rabies.

That motherfucker from the Thing gave me nightmares for years

>>18168128
Holy fuck so I just found the original story after all these years and it's so much more disturbing than I remember no wonder this shit scared me as a kid jfc
https://www.quotev.com/story/1789263/Scary-Stories/6

A few of the ones I remember are Harold, the one with the town butcher who made wurst out of children, and the one that still haunts me to this day.

The fucking spider nest pimple.

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Fucking love reading this around Halloween season. Best time of year

>>18163823
they made me act like a baby when i was younger. my elementary school library read them to us during halloween, which looking back is really cool, but i couldn't handle it. lol

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>>18168061
Ye

>>18163823
I have the first book with the original art. Idk where or when i bought it but when i was moving i found i t and i keep it on my shelf facing me for the nostalgia

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>>18169116
God bless this anon for delivery!

Never read these but I remember one story about centipedes from In the Land of the Lawn Weenies that legitimately fucked my day up.

>>18164021
When I was a kid, for whatever reason out of all the scary pictures in those books this was the one I had to cover up with my hand. It freaked me the fuck out to even glimpse at it.

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Who else read these?

>>18172678
Yeah my friend showed me that once, pretty interesting but I feel like it's only for those weird tumblr kids who are obsessed with Halloween and shit but aren't really interested in actual horror stuff

>>18172678
First time I've seen the whole thing. Not bad.

Why did they make the order so weird?

they had them at my schools library, we made each other read them as a dare, harold had me fucked up for a while after

>>18171063
At least it wasn't coarse sand.

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Thus pic always spooped me the most.

>>18166937
Try used bookstores or amazon, I'm pretty sure most new books stores have the new version.

>>18167013
Hell yeah man, glad you could find it!

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I first recall finding the first book at a friend's place and reading "Slithery-Dee", then years later I came across another at a sleepover. Took one look at the inside of the cover, saw pic related, slammed the book shut and everyone at the sleepover got spooked the rest of the night by dumb shit like the vent making loud noises.

I'm sad that I don't have the original covers since Mr. Clown-treehead is a favorite of mine, but I still have the sweet holographic 25th anniversary ones I managed to get a long time ago. (pic related again)

I'm a little bit surprised that people are upset about the art being changed. We all recall how badly it fucked all of us up so it was only expected. I guess we're mad the new generation won't have the same nightmares we did?

On the note of scary stories for children that are absolutely horrifying: In early middleschool I read a book where the art had a ton of crosshatching, and some of the stories were original (or so it seemed). I recall a house that eats people and something about Midsummer's Eve, the longest night of the year. Anybody know? Also, I remember a whole book in itself of a girl that had an uncle that ate his entire body after cooking his finger on accident and finding it was delicious. I think said uncle ate her parents, too? He was revealed to just be a skeleton in a fedora and a trenchcoat because he canniballized himself entirely.

>>18163823
My memories of these:
I was the only kid in class who had the full set so I rented them out for a quarter a pop durring silent sustained reading for ice cream money. Always got me a two-tone pop at the end of the day. Good times.

>>18173193
>gif

>>18167644
I love how they still managed to make it look wispy like the 2d art.

>>18171079
Another phenomenally creepy series from my childhood

>>18171195
I kid you not I did the exact same thing. Covered it with my hand. Only read them at the dining table with bright light shining down on me.

Fuck. Now with October upon us I need to dig through my boxes of old shit and find these books.

>>18164021
Judging from the responses in these threads to this picture every time, I'd say most of us would probably consider it the creepiest one.

I was able to reassure myself a little, since she was an "innocent" ghost, but I admit she's creepy as hell. But that's what made these books so great.

>>18166831
dude the story about the lake mutating the campers fucked my shit up so bad when i was a kid

>>18167836
not only was this story terrifying, this picture was even more terrifying because it made zero sense in context

>>18176588
But would you really want someone who can make shit as terrifying as Stephen Gammell to have a picture that actually ties to that story? Maybe it's better this way.

>>18164021
the best part about this illustration was that they put it on the verso so you have to turn to it while reading with zero warning. which i'm sure was totally unintentional and not some editor scaring the bejeebers out of a generation

>>18168052
BUT WHO WAS PHONE?

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>>18163823
OLD SACKS

>>18165730
There was some construction going on across the river from my apartment complex when I was in elementary school (I believe second grade). The only noise we heard across the river was hammering, it just sounded like one person hammering and we couldn't see/hear any other evidence of the construction project from my apartment court.

I convinced a bunch of other kids the sound was the Hammerman, who had murdered his whole family and came back to kill again or some bullshit. Made the story so good even a bunch of middle schoolers were scared. I was proud as fuck.

>>18173193
Fuck you. That one always scared me the most, too. I opened it and was looking at the pic and thought it was funny how ridiculous her face looks and how it's not really that scary.

THEN THE FUCKING GIF MOVED

FUCK YOU FOR SCARING THE SHIT OUT OF ME AND BRINGING BACK CHILDHOOD NIGHTMARES

>>18176734
She's just trying to be friendly, anon. :)

Aww man I'm late to this thread but yes!!! I was so scared but somehow I always had time to read them at night. The ones that stuck out the most where the one about the girl who gets dared to go to a graveyard at night and she stabs a knife through her dress and she thinks it's the dead getting her so she dies of fright, the one with the guys head rolling down the chimney and the one with the girl moving in and she goes upstairs and sees that scary smiling face.

>>18163952
Wtff i didn't need to know that

>>18164001
I can do that with you :)

>>18164993
Lol I didn't get this as a kid

I own all three books still - love the artwork. Spookiness for days

>>18167194
This story is when I decided to be cremated

>>18174223
Omg!!!! That's last one you described anon! I've been trying to remember it. Thanks haha. And the girl runs away right? and he's like a skeleton in the closet?

>>18164021
That picture and this picture stuck with me for so long, this one especially, to this day I absolutely love spiders and horror and I like to think these books and this story really started it all

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>>18164021
Forgot pic fuck

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>>18174223
>>18178609

>>18178217
Pleasant dreams.

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As an adult I love Somebody Fell From Aloft
I didnt like it as a kid, but it's a fucking cool story.

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>>18176582
The one with pic related right? I had my neighbors convinced that a mutant squirrel lived at the creek behind our houses. Those were good times.

>>18179942
I kept these two trilogies and the taily-po in the crawl space entrance in my closet as a kid. It was the only place they couldn't get me. Called it my grimoire.

>>18163823
Do you mean they had teeth like this?

>>18164002
I believe they're on youtube

>>18179942
More of these?

The scarecrow the skins the guy and wears him or something.

>>18164021
I bought this at the school book Fair when I was 7.
Did nobody screen this or did they just see letters in the pages and throw it in?

>>18163823
I have all 3 originals, is it weird for a 25 y.o neet to read them still? I dont want to be weird or chomo like cuz im reading a kids book

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>>18172678

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Pic Related and scary stories to tell in the dark made being alone in the dark and bed time very difficult for me as a kid. So much sleep, lost.

>>18179854
Man, I 100% feel the same. When I was a kid I thought it was boring but after lurking this thread a bit I got my copy out and read a good hunk of it. That story was great.

>>18163823
I remember reading these on a 6 hour car ride to my grandfather's funeral through WV. It was a rainy, dreary, fall day. The atmosphere pretty much matched the illustrations.

>>18174223
I don't think the art actually fucked anyone up for real. Hyperbole is just fun. Being scared of a silly book bring back pleasant memories because you grew out of the fear, or had fun scaring your friends at a sleep over or out camping.

It's like, kids have different experiences these days, and that's fine, but you want them to have some of the fond ones you did too, even of you were creeped out.

>>18181679
As a librarian, I can assure you that it's perfectly acceptable for adults to read easy books for nostalgia value or in appreciation of the art.

If you have time on your hands, and you want it to be less weird for you, start some serious research on folklore, which is what these books are. Start with the appendices, where some notes on the sources are supplied. Then head over to snopes and read up on urban legends and such. After that, your local library, where you may find books on your area's history or folklore. If that last bit turns up anything, go take some pictures and make a thread here. If it turns up nothing, then you've just stumbled on a book that needs writing, and you're in a position to do it.

There was one story that always fucked me up, but I can't remember if it was part of the Scary Stories to tell in the Dark collection.

Basically this girl and her mother take a trip to Paris (???) and they rent a hotel room. The mother is pretty sick, so they send for the hotel doctor. He determines that she's got something like the flu and asks the girl to go to his clinic and grab some medicine for him; the hotel has already called a taxi.

So she's telling the taxi driver where to go and he keeps getting all turned around and the trip takes forever- its hours before the girl is able to return with the medicine. She comes up to the hotel desk and requests to see her mother.

"Do I know you?"
The employee has no idea who she is, even though she and her mother had just checked in that very same day. She tries to explain the situation but the employee is adamant that there is no one fitting of her mother's description who checked into the hotel.

"Maybe its another hotel-"

But the girl is 100% certain that she is at the right hotel; so much that she makes her way to the hotel room and opens the door to reveal-

THE ROOM IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

"I told you miss," the employee repeats "you're probably mixed up with another hotel."

Her mother is gone and every trace of her existence has been erased.

The writer explains that this is supposed to be based on an urban legend. And in the end, the girl learns that the people in the hotel were in on a collective conspiracy. Apparently, the mother didn't have the "flu" but instead was dying of the Black Plague. They got rid of the daughter with the excuse of needing useless medicine and taxi driver, who was also part of the conspiracy, pretended to be lost long enough so that the hotel could dispose of the mother's body and completely repaint and redecorate the hotel room- thereby making it appear that the mother had never existed.

>>18182273
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQvJgRzwVcY
Beyond Belief made it into a segment. It's a great story, it was definitely in one of the SSTTITD books.

>>18182292

Yeah, I always was scared of this story due to the underlining paranoia. The idea that sinister forces could make me question what is real and what is fake... to make me question my own sanity- all for their own malicious gain.

It doesn't help that in some versions of the urban legend, the girl doesn't find out what happens to her mother and instead goes crazy and dies in a mental hospital believing that she was insane.

>>18182313
It's an old legend at that. Alfred Hitchcock did it in one of his episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents..." and it's almost EXACT to the version presented here.

>>18182385
Different anon jumping in here. So it seems this one is older than I thought.

Shiiiiiiiiit they totally had these at the bookfair at my ELEMENTARY SCHOOL and of course I got em.

I remember this one story though, donno what book it was from. Basically two kids try to sneak in to this fat weirdos house with overgrown grass and find that its full of empty pizza box stacks (like a pizza box forest) and hes so fucking obese demon with a giant toothed maw for a stomach that swims through trash like a shark.

Scared the shit out of me.

>>18182313
it's code-name is schitzophrenia

I still have all these books in a box with my Goosebumps and Animorphs shit.

>>18182468
As I'm sure many of you all got them through your Scholastic book sale every month. Those were good times.

scarecrow drying skins on the roof, easily

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The Land of The Lawn Weenies series also had some pretty twisted stories in them.

>>18181673
>>18182478
Harold.

http://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/18110438/#18112227

>>18163823

Is finding these stories scary a meme or something? Most of them are really, really bad.

>>18167644
Nigga that's a charmander that got it's ass kicked.

>>18181780

Good job.

>>18183508
You're judging folklore by the quality standards of fiction. And some of them are decently chilling. But it's mostly the art that people find disturbing. It's quality stuff, and when you're eleven your tolerance for scary is not yet particularly developed, so double whammy there.

So less memeing than nostalgiaing.

>>18164021
My wife used to hate that picture as a kid, because it reminded her of her abusive mom.
I bought the trilogy of books for her as a gift one year, and when she looked through them to show me that picture, she found that one had a sheet of paper taped over it.


I never found that one particularly bad, but it's pretty funny finding out how many people were freaked by it. I was always more unsettled by the abstract ones that didn't really seem to fit the story.

they're in poor shape but I still have all 3. they changed the illustrations to be more kid-friendly and you can't get those wicked bloody books anymore.

>>181835808
i think it was the artwork more than anything else that scared most people. I had never seen gore before that and didn't in any other depiction for years.

>>18181464
For you anon, I will dig through my boxes to find this book and get some pics, most of the ones I find online, like that one, are kinda awful.

>>18176734
>96 KB GIF

>>18183508
it's the gold standard of kids horror
It is a kids book series after all. It happens to have fucking incredible artwork.

I reread them every year, they're great. Especially looking through the bibliography and seeing the notes on each story with sources and alternative versions.

anyone remember the one where the there's the toe in the soup??

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>>18183687
>I was always more unsettled by the abstract ones that didn't really seem to fit the story.

>>18163929
I loved that one!! The window or some shit

>>18163962
Broken hearts suck my anon. I hope you feel enough closure one day to look past that and be able to enjoy the books again for their sheer awesomeness.

>>18183508
Stupid kids these days automatically using the word "meme" to describe everything. The word has now lost all meming.

>>18164720

The Knife fucking creeps me out because living in the city means creepy weird shits like that cross my path all the time.

>>18163823
My memories were mostly about the fact that I really liked the stories, especially the creepier ones

but the goddamn art made me uneasy as fuck, almost to the point where I hated looking at it. I always thought it was ugly and disjointed-something I'm sure they were going for.

>>18163836
One of my favorites, actually!

>>18164993
Fug I remember this one and being visibly annoyed when I got to the end

Literally a dad tier joke in a "spooky stories" book

>>18163823
I got a major nostalgia attack.

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Loved this book. My mom also used to read me a short kid's book called Monster Mama that had Gammell's illustrations.

>>18184861
I can't tell if the color makes it worse or better.

Got anymore scans?

I don't have any real spoopy stories, being the scariest the ocasional boom in the night. Instead, I will tell you some funny stories:

>Be 8 yo mexican
>At home with mom and siblings
>Phone rings. Mom cooking, asks me to answer
>Answer, silence, and then...
>"hahahahaha hola puto come mierda" (hi fag, eat shit)
>Hangs up
>"Who was?" asks mom
>Tell her a kid made a prank call
>Mom rages, calls back
>Answers kid's mom (Lets call her k), my mom tell her what her kid did
>K gets mad, calls kid. I can hear the conversation
>K yells at her son. Apparently it´s not the first time he makes phone pranks
>Starts crying loudly, gets grounded for 2 months with no tv or videogames
>Makes him apologize to me and my mom
>When shit is about to finish, kid's dad comes to home. Hears what happened.
>Shitrain comes upon kid, gets grounded again by dad. He wont go to vacations to the beach and will stay at her grandma's
>At this point my mom just excuses herself and hangs up
>Found out later that kid actually goes to my same school. Apparently no one likes him because he is very annoying and obnoxious

cont.

>>18186288
>FF 1 year
>Kid changes school
>Apparently he had social problems
>Got expelled because he threw shit (literally human defecation) at a girl when she rejected him as a boyfriend


Ok so here is another story and more recent:

>Be me, mexican 15 yo
>Be with friends at a restaurant
>One of them gets a call, unknown number
>"Hey, why don't you put it in speaker so we know who is?"
>Answers
>Girl crying is heard on the background. She cries "Mami ayudame!" (Mom help me!)
>"Metete a la camioneta pinche mocosa" (Get on the van you fucking girl) is heard on the background too
>Sounds of a motor starting is heard
>"Escuchame pendejo, tenemos a tu hija. Si quieres volver a verla, mas vale que nos traigas 10,000 MXN a esta dirección"
(Listen fag, we have your daughter. If you want to see her again bring 10,000 MXN to this direction)
>Silence
>We start laughing
>My friend is 14, he doesn't even have a gf
>We hang up
>Continue eating

Later i found out that extortionists in Mexico have pre-recorded sounds (like the one of the girl being dragged to a van) to fool people and make them pay money

>>18183906
Looking forward to it.

>>18186315
The humor of your first story is greatly contrasted by the second one.

All these stories of kidnapping in Mexico, it's like a fucking epidemic. Makes you wonder how people just go about their daily lives.

>>18184792
It's funny when you're a kid, obviously, before you even know what a "dad tier" joke is.

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>>18186141
makes me wonder what his other illustrations would look like in colour.

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Nothing on the level with this stuff, but my parents got me this when I was little.

the cover art scared the hell out of me

>>18188471
Were they Giger fans?

>>18188158
Considering the effect that just the black and white pictures had on people here, maybe that would be too gruesome. I also think black and white gives the pictures more of a "classic", older feel to them.

>>18167194
>>18167194
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJppqS8uDyQ

very related

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>>18188526
Nah, they just thought it was an innocent book about speculative evolution.
How wrong they were.

>>18189448
Pretty weird stuff.

>>18169116
Wow that was gay as fuck.
The ending was a let down.
OOoOoOooOoO a stranger with a knife.
> pleb

>>18164473
this was the one that scared the shit out of me ha also with the art style always being so odd to me

>>18175166
That fairy in the jar got me

>>18191143
Oh god that one. The "Abandon all hope" one stands out in my mind, years later.

>>18190661
Look at this guy, everybody. He's clearly put on his Big Boy Pants and doesn't afraid of anything! I know it's hard for the rest of us not to be paralyzed by fear when reading children's stories, but let's all try to be brave like him! :)

>>18164021
She was murdered and buried in the cellar.

>>18191303
Being scared of humans who want to kill you.... is just not scary.
Being scared of the unknown is more terrifying, was hoping it turned out to be some kind of wraith or some shit.
But I guess fear is subjective, but that doesnt change the fact that youre a plebian fuck

The "Scary Stories" books were scary, but they had nothing on "Baleful Beasts and Eerie Creatures".

I practically wore our library's copy out when I was a kid. High octane nightmare fuel.

>>18163834
Hey u commented on another thread.. or was it u tube

>>18163836
And then jennys head fell off.
Wasnt there a version where she says "I told you not to do that." ? Mandela effect fuckn with me

>>18191473
Nigga.

Link.
That.
Shit.

>>18167194

When I was a litrle kid...back in the early 80s...my mom would sing this to me as she pushed me in a swing.

>>18182468
Buddy how did animorphs end?

>>18191461
>Being scared of humans who want to kill you.... is just not scary.

Good to know you have no survival instinct. The masked killer can cut you up while you stand there telling him how lame and unscary he is.

Stay edgy.

>>18192010
Not him, but it ended badly on a cliffhanger that she made some half-assed justification for. Young me was crushed, older me is just bitter and disappointed.

>>18163929
God damnit I loved these books, the fact that they changed the art is sacrilege

>>18165588
>That image
>Not getting instant triggered
Fucking aye, this generation of kids really did have the nuts clipped off their childhood

>>18191535
Sorry.

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16589597W/Baleful_beasts_and_eerie_creatures

>>18164465
That one fucked me up, all the little spider babies everywhere.

bamp

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Thank you guys for reminding me these exist. I'm buying a copy of the full set to give to my nephew for his birthday right now.

Any of you ever read the poem The Cremation of Sam McGee? My stepdad got me a spoopy book when I was young and that was the only story I ever read. Never understood it though and I can't find that book to re-read it.

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>>18166831
>1

Was there actually a story with a skeletons head growing out of rhe ground or was that just for the cover?

>>18171195
I wonder why people tend to fear this picture the most

>>18194983
Just the cover. That's the fucked up thing about Gammell. He just draws shit like that.

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>>18164021
>>18171195
>>18176552
>>18178710
>>18183687
I dunno about you fuckers but this one always terrified the shit outta me over the ghost lady.

>>18163974
Me-Tie-Doughty-Walker

>>18165588
Aye. They reissued them with pictures that illustrator of Lemony Snicket drew.

If you order them online make sure they are illustrated by STEPHEN GAMMELL, the original illustrator (and fellow Iowan)

>>18167128
That was from "In A Dark Dark Room and other Scary Stories," same author as OP.

Mostly lighter fare for younger kids except that fucked up one where the guy falls in love with a girl with a ribbon around her neck.

They get married and grow old and on her deathbed, she lets him finally take the ribbon off and her head fuckin falls off.

>>18163823
I just remember the old lady wandering around "who has my silver dollars"

>>18163823
The one i remember is the story where a girl killed her friend that was a vampire, using her hair.

>>18195390
Pretty sure that one's not a Scary Story.

>>18191527
There is.

>>18163836
that wasnt in this story book, that was in a book called "in a dark dark room and other scary stories" or something

>>18163861
I had a basement, and an asshole dog that trotted up and down them at night.
I truly know your feel about that story.

>>18196765
You couldn't put it outside or in another room?

>>18197500
Silly anon, basements aren't outside

>>18197514
Right. If the dog kept trotting around in the basement, you couldn't have it sleep outside instead?

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>>18173193

>>18163823
Used to watch the animations on youtube. Oh suzanna scared me the most, I feared sleeping alone for two years. Thinking about it now, It's not really scary but imagining a whisper in the middle of the night always terrified me. But I later became autistic because of a head trauma and now I don't care anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQsO6LvQh1s

>>18195224
Lynchy-Kinchy-Colly-Molly-Dingo-DIngo

>>18197770
She's just being friendly, anon.

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>>18164993
Starring

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>>18200382

Harold fucked me up.

>>18199724
kek

>>18164993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSdhFsm0NpU
Tiny Tim's version is creepy

>>18199724
>casting movies professionally

>>18168128
Oh God, that and the one with the floating head or face chasing some gold diggers scared the hell out of me for like a month.

>>18201956
I meant miners, not gold diggers

>>18200807
Just like most people seem to find the haunt to be the scariest picture, most people seem to list Harold as the scariest story, or at least the one they remember best.

>new art

They changed the art? To what?

The old art was terrifying as a kid.

>>18182422

Aw, shit. Was that the one where moon mouth bellybutton man made marionettes out of the kid he caught?

>>18194591

In Canada we learn this in grade school. Pretty sure a Google search would bring it up in full.

>>18163823
yes.

my memories of them are that they sold them at the annual school book fair held by scholastic(i think) where they would sell books in the library.

I remember they were very disturbing, but fascinating. especially the artwork.

my brother and i would read the stories to eachother before bed. this was in the early 1990s.

i know i had the first one. i had at least one other of them, but am not sure which one it was.

>>18202684
Not him, but the story that always scared the most was the one about the babysitter in the 1st book, and the creepy guy who kept calling her.

I was afraid to sleep for a while because I kept thinking he was gonna call my mom and come break into our house.

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>>18202800
This one's an oldie but a goldie.

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>>18203333
They went with the "safe" ending for this one. Every other version of the tale I've heard ends up with everyone getting murdered.

This probably wouldn't spook today's kids either, what with caller ID and cell phones and all.

This and sfogs, would terrify me, id be in cold sweat then tire myself to sleep lol

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>>18202712
Some examples >>18165588

>>18203342
Well that was lame.

>>18163823
Just downloaded all the audiobooks off the bay, feels good

>>18202776
I remember it from 6th grade. I should really look it up sometime

>>18203746
These are stories for kids, anon. It's not Stephen King.

I saw them over and over again, especially the first one. Tons of people I knew had a copy. In spite of being an active horror buff -- in movies, vidya, literature, and so on -- I never read them.

>>18163823
Yup, had all of them. The one that spooked me was the guy who didn't know he was dead until he called his wife. Also, chicken soup for the soul the one where they talk about children dying and dealing with death scared me more.

>>18204695
You missed out.

Bumpity Bump

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>>18204701
>The one that spooked me was the guy who didn't know he was dead until he called his wife.

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>>18204687
Considering other stories from these same books have ended with people getting skinned, burnt down to ashes, and having their faces explode into spiders, "The day was saved, thanks to the Powerpuff Police!" is kind of a lame ending even in the context of being for kids.

I would always read them. Now I talk about how awesome the stories where.

IKD about the books or anything but out of all the horror I've ever seen or read this fucked with me the most
https://youtu.be/sD7LhO-HZOI

>>18203342
>Take the kids and get out of the house, we dont have an angel statue.

>>18166777
Would be scarrier with a red or blue filter to make it look infected/rotting

>>18209618
Or "clown statue", but exactly, it's just a retelling of a classic urban legend.

>>18210072
IDK, it looks pretty diseased and rotting to me, but you may be right.

>>18182850
oh shit i love this series. I remember a story where this kid got a magic diary that made the opposite of what he wrote in it happen in real life. He writes the word die in it and throws it under some cement that's currently drying. His sister added the letter T to the word so it becomes diet. the story ends with the implication that he's gonna become fat as fuck.

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As a kid this picture used to really fuck with me. Something about it just disturbed me

>>18165771
>'Something was breathing in the dark
The young oxford book nightmares?

>>18163929
this one fucked with me so heavy id start to see it at night, being as young as i was. Literally just the picture, story was k

Does anyone have all the high quality scans in one place like a dropbox or magnet link? They'd be awesome Halloween papes.

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This image right here is what had me running from the darkness for a long fucking time. The story wasn't particularly frightening as a kid but the picture was burned into my brain and it still is.

There is a story from a book, not sure if it's in Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark but it's about a room that anyone who stays in it dies. A cop decides to stay in it and the people who try to talk him out of it hear a gunshot, the cops is dead and there is a bullet hole in the wall. Anyone remember this?

>>18163823
The only thing I remember from this is that image of that woman with the skelly face. Scared the shit out of me.

>>18164021

Ah there you are honey. Kindly fuck off plz?

>>18211605
pls no buly, she was a sweetie in that story

>>18211585
>The story wasn't particularly frightening as a kid but the picture was burned into my brain
That's pretty much the entire book series in a nutshell.

>>18210412
What a bitch

>>18210698

>Already terrified of open water
>Forgot this story existed

Harold scared the shit out of me for years when I was a kid.

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>>18210975
I have scans of all three books, which is what I've been posting, but they're not mine, some other anon uploaded them to /x/ years ago and I've just been reposting them ever since. The problem is, a lot of these pages are scanned so poorly and are very crooked. I'd like to find some higher-quality scans someday to share with /x/, but I haven't had any luck yet, although I haven't looked in a while, either. I'd try to do it myself, but I can't find the third book even though I used to have it, and the second one is somewhat damaged and wouldn't be a good one to scan.

>>18165003
$5 for two knives?
I'd buy the shit out of that.

does anyone remember that story where the wooden chair came to life and led some people to a dead body?

>>18214804
They probably break as soon as you use them.

>>18172726
bruh Gorey's been around since the 70's, he's not really a 'tumblr kid' thing, haha. you should check out his set design for a Dracula revival, it's pretty awesome

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>>18173193
that gif is the WORST

>>18203351
oh my god i used to go on sfogs all the time in high school, i loved that site- even got a story published on it, haha

>>18163823
Holy shit this thread is two weeks old wtf?

>>18215212
Hello, newfag, welcome to /x/

>>18163823
Found a copy of the first one with original artwork for $2.00 at a Half Priced Books store.

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My school library was small but they had some cool scary story books.
This one is really good.

>>18164021
So given she's an innocent ghost, if she appeared before you...Would you?

>>18215859
Go back to your monstergirl threads on /d/ and leave our pure and innocent skeleton and ghost girls alone.

>>18203351
>>18215177
What is that?

>>18216314
Well, the easy thing to do would be to Google it

>>18210974
And the thing is, that story's supposed to be funny.

>>18163823
The illustrations were horrifying and the stories were too

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>>18214830
Well, this thread is nearly kill, but I can cram in a few more stories.

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>>18218329
It's supposed to be kind of a funny story, but the ending always annoyed me as a kid. Didn't help that it was the last story in the book.

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>>18218740
There ya go, /x/. Hope you've enjoyed.