It's about time some stories from the early 80's come back.
http://www.scaryforkids.com/stories-to-tell/
Pick out a few you love the most and why.
It's story time, bitch.
Yay.
>>17461544
Will you accept writefags if they appear?
>>17461582
Of course.
>>17461586
You're so nice.
>>17461586
OP, you are a diamond
>>17461592
Why wouldn't I accept writefags?
The ones on /x/ tend to be the most tolerable of all.
>>17461596
Well, I just kinda called one out...so just saying you're nice? Lol.
Sweet
OP here. Let me just say that I don't think anything will ever beat The Hearse Song.
That thing is spoopy as fuck.
>>17461544
Anyways..."Black Dog," "Harold," and "The Voice" derp.. are some of my favorites.
I honestly just love all of the stories, with original illustrations of course(nothing against Brett Helquist-but I think they added to the almost passing myself vibes). Reminiscing, it's probably one of the books that, in my early adolescence, sparked my interest in the supernatural and macabre. Another thing that I love about these books is that they were available in my grade school library, it's pretty funny seeing the change in social norms from that time to now.
>>17461544
Trying to track down op story from /x/ sp,e time ago...title went something like ....From the bottom of the night. World receiver.
>>17461670
My brother was a whopping eleven years older than me, so I don't remember much of when he was still living with us during his college years. I was only thirteen when he moved out. But he was always weird. His self-professed hobby was to watch people. I remember there were times when he would pick me up from school, and, as we drove home in the afternoon sunlight, we would see something like a group of children walking home in their uniforms, and those little mundane scenes--old ladies feeding birds, shops closing down for the day--were heartbreaking to him. He took pictures of seemingly innocuous things. He was very nostalgic about things that had never happened to him.
I distinctly remember that on a weekly basis he would sit in a corner of his cramped room and scribble into an old notebook that he used for school. Sometimes I would ask him what he was drawing or writing. He would of course tell me to leave. He kept it well-hidden when he wasn't writing, because several times during my childhood I looked for it while he wasn't home, and never found it.
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I don't remember a whole lot else about my brother. He mostly kept to himself, but was willing to oblige when I asked him to play video games or something with me. He wasn't very much for sports, and he had a small but recurring circle of friends. They were generally as weird as him and Mom didn't like them around the house. But he didn't seem lonely or hurt, he got good marks and generally he appeared satisfied with his life. He was the opposite of my sister (seven years older than me), who has always been socially adaptable, self-confident and outgoing. Whenever my brother went out, it was either to take pictures of the seedier parts of the city, or heading straight to a friend's house, probably to listen to music. He was big on music, especially anything that used "found sound", i.e. recordings picked up from somewhere else.
My brother died in a car crash last year. We have made our peace with it by now. My parents decided to keep his room as it was when he left. But I haven't been able to contain myself. For years the mystery of the notebook had settled in the far back of my mind, but months after his death it resurfaced. I needed to find it. I scoured his room again. I checked under and inside everything, with meticulous care to make sure my parents didn't notice I had been moving things around. And finally, by sheer luck, I came across a loose floorboard under where his bed used to be.
>>17461702
What happen to things like this?
>>17461673
D'awww. <3
I don't get what you're doing. Audio recordings, posting them?
>>17461702
Any more of this?
>>17461702
Very dramatic pause?
high beams, holy fuck that scared the shit out of me when i was younger. It took me a half-hour of indecision standing naked in the bathroom to get in the shower, at which point my dad got angry at me and I perked up and put it behind me
fuck, those books were in my 2nd grade reading shelf, fucked up reading material for back then.
>>17461673
Was always my fav to senpai
>>17461774
You shut your whore mouth.
Bumping before I go to sleep. Keep the thread alive for me, Anons.
>>17461928
Night, night.
>>17462249
Well that's something to look at.
The art in these books is amazing.
>>17462011
Thanks, slept pretty well.
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>>17463337
Glad you got fuel for today.
And yeah, it's too bad they changed the illustrations though.
>>17464214
I saw something about that earlier. What a shame.
>>17464670
Which story was this from?
>>17464892
The Walk.
>>17465510
I think I remember that one.
Creepy as shit.
>>17465558
Did you like The Attic? Thought that one was cute.
>>17461702
Not the OP of this post, but this story is here;
http://www.creepypasta.org/creepypasta/my-brother
It's odd to say the least. While it doesn't explicitly point out something paranormal is going on, people meet unfortunate events for unexpected reasons.
I like to think the illustrator eventually went mad. Afaik, he lives a happy life and still makes money off of the series.
>>17466147
Right? Apparently, he had never even drawn in a macabre style before. Just channelled all shit creepy for these books.
>>17466111
Thanks, Anon!
>>17461628
The reason for it being so frightening is the reality.
The reality that, everyone eventually succumbs to. Death.
Death comes to all, & that reality of thereafter, is what gets us.
>>17463487
This.....I always, whenever I read this, that first paragraph on the page with "The Thing" -- I always felt uneasy of how it just stared back at me. How even after I turned the page to continue reading, I could still lightly make out "the thing" through the turned page....That illustration, always, just really got me, always felt, off.
I know it was supposed to be somewhat humorous, but The Slithery Dee always freaked me out.
I think it was just the thought that this thing could pop up out of nowhere and end you before you even have a chance to react that was absolutely terrifying to me.
Reminder that faggots changed the art in the new books because they thought it was too scary for kids.
>>17468815
Nobody ever forgot.
>>17461650
Fucking Harold man. Creepy shit.
> Alright I'm gonna read all these stories from my childhood, the nostalgia will be great!
> First story is The Thing
> Don't remember it
> Still feels good reading it
> Gets to second story
> It's Harold, one of the very few I actually remember
> fuck yes
> clicks link
> It's the new motherfucking neutered version
> They took out the original picture
> Ok that was expected
> But the name
> Is
> Now
> Fucking
> Scarecrow
Fuck this shit fucking ass faggots ruined my trip down memory lane I hope Harold makes all those fuckeds into fucking skinsuits.
>>17461544
I remember one of these had to do with the mother threatening she would leave her child and one day the child wakes up and finds a wooden doll replacement mother with a wooden tail. That one upset me more than the others.
>>17463491
what book is that from? i dont remember it at all.
>>17468878
It looks like it's still called "Harold" to me.
>>17470459
Just a different Steven Gammell original.
Glad to see this thread picked up again.
>>17472307
>Harold becomes Pinocchio
>Kid flying a spine through bullskull world becomes an angry lesbian in a bed
Oh Susannah is the only story that got a decent new picture. The rest are shit.
>>17474830
I think it was the pictures that had schools banning these books from school libraries. The best chance they have to getting children to read stories about scarecrows skinning men alive on the government bill was to change the pictures.
>>17474961
Time to start stockpiling the older better versions of the books then. Kids need to be scared once in a while and the new pictures don't do a good job of that. They're scary stories for crying out loud.
>>17475018
Also they should be afraid of natives and their silly spirits of war.
>>17474830
>decent new picture
No. It's more relevant to the story, but it's so bland. Not an improvement at all.
Am I kawaii? uguu~
Anyone got a link to the stories?
I tried to look them up online, but the only website that I could find had the watered-down, child friendly versions.
>>17476802
yeah same
>>17461702
thats my favorite one, and i want more but there will never be more.
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>>17468801
When I was growing up in my home, there was lots of anger and repressed feelings. I think that over the years they had manifested into an entity that took form of The Thing when I first saw it.
When shit started going downhill for me I moved out of the house with my father, but would occasionally stay at the other house. Evey night was cold, even during summer, and it always felt like someone was watching me. I didn't know dick about shit back then either, but a few years later I asked someone to try to bless the room. After they came out I went in and there it was, that fucking thing just floating about the fucking heater vent in the very corner of the room, with burned overalls and the rotted face. It followed me after I saw it for a good 4 years, last I saw it, I went to the local haunted bridge of my town and i think it just fucked off and stayed there.
>>17476864
I doubt you'll ever do it because the experience was traumatizing as fuck (I know I probably wouldn't), but you should go back there someday.
Don't forget the camera, if you forget it you might never be able to tell if it's something real or something in your head.
I found an original copy of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 3 on my bookshelf just now. Sad to say I don't have 1 or 2 anymore, but 3 has most of the best stories-- except for the Thing, I believe that's in another volume. (I was so terrified of the Thing when I was younger.)
Anyone want pics/uploads of the stories? Any requests?
>>17477872
Sure. Post the one that you think is the scariest.
Also;
>>17477777
Sorry, I want to know.
>>17475035
>Natives
Everyone does it.
Supposedly, there's going to be a Scary Stories movie.
>>17479752
pls no :(
I've had enough childhood butchered by Hollywood already.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/14/10773002/guillermo-del-toro-scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark-movie
Who else is super excited for the movie?
>tfw I found all three of the good editions at a yard sale for 25 cents a book
And it was about a year after I'd heard about the design changed and regretted not stealing them from my school library.
>>17479752
Doubt it. Those stories were basic folklore. Might as well adapt the literally hundreds of other urban legend books.
I wanna see a version of Scary Stories that's aimed at adults.
The original illustrations, but the stories as told or retold by known or just good horror authors
>>17481162
At least it's in good hands.
That said del Taco needs to get his head out of his ass and produce that Monster adaptation already.
>>17474830
And even then Oh Susannah's illustration's only real redeeming quality was that it was relevant to what was going on.
It wasn't spooky in the slightest, and it didn't hold a candle to the surreally unrelated nightmarescape it replaced.
>>17461544
>Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
i still have my book
>>17479781
That gif is top fucking kek.
Hollywood doesn't butcher everything, just about 98%.
>>17479752
It's going to be a documentary though.
>>17476078
So has anyone seen the art that replaced this? I'm fascinated to know what they used to make children stop screaming.
>>17469142
Are you me
I just felt upset
