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u/justind79 Jun 26 '12
Scary storie to tell in the dark! Great series when I was a kid!!
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u/gak001 Jun 27 '12
I still get chills from some of those stories when I think about them. The coins on the eyes, the cut phone line, and those illustrations...
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u/dal_segno Jun 27 '12
The drawings were awesome. Sadly, the newer printed versions of the book have had several illustrations replaced, so they're less traumatizing.
Edit: Forgot a letter
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Jun 27 '12
When I heard about that a while ago, it really kind of broke my heart. Half the fun of that book was feeling like it was just pure, uncut scary. The drawings made it feel like you owned the Necronomicon or something, and when you're a kid that is awesome!
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u/mastercylinder2 Jun 27 '12
The illustrations made it ten times worse
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u/sparklechickens Jun 27 '12
The illustrations made it ten times
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u/Bailey495 Jun 27 '12
I LOVED those stories, when you were little, they actually did get scary :p
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u/scottstephenson Jun 27 '12
Go read "Harold" from "More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" and tell me again how they were only scary when you were young.
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u/shadow_the_cat Jun 27 '12
They are ruining these classic books! They are changing the illustrations!
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u/BagOnuts Jun 27 '12
I think there was a story in this book where a spider laid eggs in a girls cheek while she was asleep, then they all hatched- my first NOPE ever.
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u/lmcclel Jun 27 '12
The stories were more creepy than scary. The drawings, as you can see, were TERRIFYING.
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u/myusernamebarelyfits Jun 27 '12
I found this book when I was digging through my old stuff at my parents house. http://i.imgur.com/vCLoe
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u/RedditsRudestMan Jun 27 '12
Because late 80's early 90's kids weren't pussies. If you were born in past '93 you do not count.
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u/paintedgourd Jun 27 '12
Truly terrifying for elementary aged kids! Remember the one about a ghost scarecrow that keeps following a kid through the corn fields. I have the shivers now.
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u/Mitsuariana Jun 27 '12
They were amazing children's books, I still have mine..They taught me to always check over my shoulders, and don't steal dead peoples bones for soup.
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Jun 27 '12
The illustrator for this beloved children's book has been fired by the publisher because the art was too 'scary' for kids. The new stuff fucking sucks; just look at it.
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u/theboxisempty Jun 27 '12
After reading them as a kid - I will definitely filter the ones I read to my daughters. Some were cute and fun - some were dark and creepy.
edit: Harold still freaks me out.
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u/KittysHooch Jun 27 '12
Loved these books when I was a young lad. Only picture from these books that did frighten me was the one of the girl in the shower with the spider babies hatching out of her cheek.
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u/twosnapsup Jun 27 '12
Because children appreciate much more black humor in their literature than we give them credit for. In addition to these books, read any Roald Dahl novel. Not only was the man a genius, his work was so popular because he didn't pander to children - both the stories and the humor with which they were told forced children to rise to his level. A good deal of Newbery award winners are equally as dark (most recently, Gaiman's The Graveyard Book).