Hell yes.

[TheOutlawTorn]

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[Tony Ryan]

I remember that book. It fucked me up, big time.

Funny shit, that is.

[Michael Rabattino]

I used to always take those out of my elementary school library and they'd scare the living fuck out of me for sure.

[Brian Ross]

Fantastic book, it had the greatest drawing too.

I loved the story where the girl gets a pimple and it gets bigger and bigger and then while shes taking a hot bath it bursts and little baby spiders just crawl out. Fabulous.

[LlamaRama]

Oh god, I still get nightmares about the spider girl story.

And is that the book where there's a cabin, and two guys, and one of them gets skinned alive by some animated scarecrow thing? Because I also have nightmares about that.

[Rath/Brendan]

Those were pretty good, but there was this whole other series "Scary Stories for Sleep-Overs" that was fucking scary. And then this other series that was a collection of folk-tales by a folk talle collection company. those were fucking scary.

[Mr. Sodium]

I think the illustrations in those books are the only pictures that creep me out so much I can't look at them for more than a few seconds. Other than photographs of eye surgery. I was in a bookstore two days ago, and saw the collected volume on sale, but I knew if I got it I wouldn't be able to sleep until I had burned it. I don't know who that artist is, but he's found some way to tap into the "Holy crap, that's fuckin' creepy as hell!" part of my brain. When I have kids, I'm not letting them look at that book until they are at least 27 years old, and only then through a piece of cheesecloth.

The "call is coming from inside the house!" story used to freak me out as a kid, although in the first version I read of it, the babysitter didn't escape.

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Dear God Almighty.

-Mr. Sodium

[TheOutlawTorn]

LlamaRama:
And is that the book where there's a cabin, and two guys, and one of them gets skinned alive by some animated scarecrow thing? Because I also have nightmares about that.I believe that would be "Harold", and that is him at the top of this thread.

[billylove]

sweet

[TheOutlawTorn]

RathBandu:
Those were pretty good, but there was this whole other series "Scary Stories for Sleep-Overs" that was fucking scary.Had a couple of these too. There were a couple of genuinely creepy ones, and the illustrations weren't bad, but they didn't quite get to me like the "To Tell In The Dark" series.

[Michael Rabattino]

Can I go on record as saying those books had the scariest illustrations ever?

Because, shut me down, they did.

[Cheese Biscuits]

I had them too. Sweet Jesus. I would read a story every month, because after I read one, I couldn't read another one for a long ass time because I was so afraid. Also, I got those books with audio cassettes where a creepy old man read them. Who the fuck was in charge of these books? It's as if they were on a mission from hell to royally frighten the crap out of kids... AND GOD BLESS THEM FOR IT!

[Michael Rabattino]

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Help.

[Michael Rabattino]

Cheese Biscuits: Plain and Simple:
Also, I got those books with audio cassettes where a creepy old man read them.I would sit in my elementary school library with friends and we would listen to them, scared shitless.

God the memories are flowing back...

[Michael Rabattino]

Allow me to continue post-whoring, please...

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Chapter One
Something Was Wrong

One morning John Sullivan found himself walking along a street downtown. He could not explain what he was doing there, or how he got there, or where he hadbeen earlier. He didn't even know what time it was.

He saw a woman walking toward him and stopped her. "I'm afraid I forgot my watch," he said, and smiled. "Can you tell me the time?" When she saw him, shescreamed and ran.

Then John Sullivan noticed that other people were afraid of him. When they saw him coming, they flattened themselves against a building, or ran across the street tostay out of his way.

"There must be something wrong with me," John Sullivan thought. "I'd better go home."

He hailed a taxi, but the driver took one look at him and sped away.

John Sullivan did not understand what was going on, and it scared him. "Maybe somebody at home can come and get me," he thought. He found a telephone andcalled his wife, but a voice he did not recognize answered.

"Is Mrs. Sullivan there?" he asked.

"No, she is at a funeral," the voice said. "Mr. Sullivan was killed yesterday in an accident downtown."

[Cheese Biscuits]

Shit, that is good stuff. It doesn't scare me much anymore, but when your about the age of 6, that stuff will freak you out to no end.

[Little Otik]

Yeah I remember when I was about 6 or 7, I went to a firends birthday party, and his parents turned off the lights and they read us some of those stories. The only one I remember very well was the one about the lady who picked up a dog in mexico but it was actually a sewer rat..it doesn't sound scary now, but it was!