This is what my 9 year old daughter asked to be for Halloween. I did a low slow chuckle and asked her if she knew the story. She did, but from some stupid YTer who just lip synced someone reading the story! Girl......smh..... Girl...... Needless to say, her older millennial mother helped her find the right costume!
My brother used to open the book to this page and shove it under my door when I got in trouble and sent to my bedroom as punishment 😂😂😂😭😭😭 looking back now it’s pretty hilarious lol
According to child psychologists the best age is never 😇 According to Reddit (( right before bedtime )) so they learn how to sleep in your room forever 😈
They did, but the millennials and Gen X buyers were so incensed they rereleased them with the originals. We definitely bought new editions with the old illustrations.
We found reprints of some of them with the old art at Barnes and Nobel!
I actually like the new illustrator if we’re thinking of Brett Helquist, bc his Series of Unfortunate Events art is so great and his stuff is eerie in its own right, but I also agree it wasn’t near terrifying enough in comparison.
I have these in my 2nd grade classroom, but they have the new, sanitized illustrations. These kids have no idea the horror these books used to contain.
Mine sits proudly at the top shelf of my bookshelf. The sheer terror I got from these stories as a kid still makes me a little uneasy at night after reading a couple stories lol
I'm an elder Millennial and didn't hear about the series until I was an adult and someone did that video with the blobby lady in the hospital. Goosebumps is what I got...
The audiobooks for the Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark books were excellent, read by the talented George S. Irving. My local library had these on cassette and around age 10 I checked them out a few times. They're free to download at this point.
I bought this book for my 11-year-old at Halloween last year. Her friend was over for a sleepover, so I thought it would be cool to tell stories from it. She promptly gave me a “what the fuck is this” face while her friend grimaced. Let's just say I read one story from that thing, and the next time I saw the book, it was in a random closet, on a shelf pushed waaaay back.
He kept bugging me to watch scary movies so we watched spooky movies like Practical Magic, Sleepy Hollow and the Others.
But he was unimpressed. I was like this is as scary as I go bud. Then my sister watched Exorcist with him and when I asked if it was scary he said well it is the scariest movie in the world. So I guess that was a yes.
Anyway I think he can handle the book.
PS when I asked my sister if she thought Exorcist was scary, she replied not really because real life is much more terrifying (she has cancer).
They were a lot scarier before I could understand the words - I had to put them away in the middle of the bookshelf just to make sure the things from the pictures wouldn't escape.
But then I read them again when I was slightly older and the whole thing went from scary to silly so quick 😊
These definitely sparked a lifetime interest in folk tales for me.
I was irate when they changed the illustrations! I actually bought all 3 of them when Urban Outfitters sold them as a special boxed set with the original pictures restored. I want to have it when my daughter is old enough. I did the same thing when they revised Roald Dahl - bought an original boxed set to make sure she has a chance to have it.
Just recently bought all of them! They're still creepy, and the images were THE scariest thing about the books. But they did have fun/funny stories in there too and I always liked those.
The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out, the worms will even play Pinochle on youre snout!....to this day i never pass an opportunity in conversation to randomly start singing this poem over and over and over....always weeds out the cool kids from the stick up ur ass ones lmao
Was this in the same book with the story about the person hiding in the backseat of a car? And the car behind would flash its high beams to alert the driver that someone was popping up and down in the back seat?
Don't worry. My seven year old son brought this one from the library last month and was excited to show me. Little did he know i have the whole collection 😅 it's in his bookshelf
This book is one of my kids favorite he read it in elementary school and loves it! To be far he’s also grown up watching horror movies with me so him liking scary stories isn’t anything crazy.
I think I got the first one from that paper Scholastic order thing they had us take home a couple times a year. I loved all the “scary” books, especially R.L. Stine books. I had a Goosebumps and Fear Street collection.
I wish I could get the entire catalog of these illustrations painted and hung on my walls. Fuck contemporary, I want to traumatize the random steak salesman that I let through my door to patronize.
Just want you all to know my mom just bought my 10yo all three of these books and I about shit myself. Also, I still remembered nearly all the words to the Hearse Song after 30 years.
The guy who illustrated them is from near my hometown so he came to my 3rd grade class and told ghost stories. Nothing traumatizing but I can’t imagine that flying in classrooms today.
I don’t remember the specific stories, but I do remember this artwork, and there was one Halloween back in elementary school where our teacher read from one of the books.
Uff a girl in my class was reading one of these out loud in a huddle during recess and did a jump scare in the end lol I forget which story it was but it got us good 😅 gonna revisit these books
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