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[Grakelin]

It was a collection of horror stories for a younger age bracket. There was some scary stuff, and some funny stuff. Some of the stories feature a haunted kitbag (the guy accidentally brings it home from a murder trial to pack his luggage in), a story of a Japanese Samurai killing himself to keep a promise to visit his brother at a certain time (as a ghost), a story about a girl leaving yogurt in her fridge for so long it turns into a terrible monster and kills a person. Also some classics like Monkey's Paw and The Cremation of Sam McGee. I think it was called "Spooky Stories for Scary Kids" or something similar. Would have been published sometime between 2000 and 2004.

Does anybody remember this at all?

[Criptfeind]

Sorry, at first it sounded familiar but the more you went into it I realized that I was thinking of The works of poe and not what you are thinking of.

Speaking of this stuff, does anyone remember the tale of "Taily Po"? I loved that as a child.

[Retro]

Speaking of this stuff, does anyone remember the tale of "Taily Po"? I loved that as a child.

Jesus, I remember reading that.

[Heron TSG]

Goosebumps?

[Cthulhu]

It was a collection of horror stories for a younger age bracket. There was some scary stuff, and some funny stuff. Some of the stories feature a haunted kitbag (the guy accidentally brings it home from a murder trial to pack his luggage in), a story of a Japanese Samurai killing himself to keep a promise to visit his brother at a certain time (as a ghost), a story about a girl leaving yogurt in her fridge for so long it turns into a terrible monster and kills a person. Also some classics like Monkey's Paw and The Cremation of Sam McGee. I think it was called "Spooky Stories for Scary Kids" or something similar. Would have been published sometime between 2000 and 2004.

Does anybody remember this at all?

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark comes to mind, but I don't remember one with those stories.

If you didn't skip pages from those books because the illustrations scared the piss out of you, you didn't have a real childhood.

[ein]

You kidding?
I skipped pages just to see those illustrations.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Wait, this sounds familiar. Was there one about a kid who goes to take a mandatory government IQ test, has to drink truth serum, and the story ends with the officials calling up his parents to ask if they would prefer a state or private funeral for their son because he scored too high?

[ein]

Holy hell, I know that last one.
Forget where it's form, though.

[Cthulhu]

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I also lost sleep over Harold.  Inanimate objects moving of their own accord without any thought process still scares the hell out of me.

I just realized it was a gif.  Oh my goodness I almost had a heart attack.

[Grakelin]

Wasn't Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark, though I do remember that trilogy. I read them all the time at this used bookstore my mom would take me to in Vancouver because her friends owned the place. I think one of my favourites was the one where the girl goes into the burning attic to save the girl who is screaming for help, but discovers it was really her from the future and she dies.

This one was a lot thicker, though. With coloured, more cartoony illustrations (though, still scary somehow. The one for the kitbag freaked me out, even though it was just some brown and black pastels of the top of a stairwell). I think it only came in hardcover, but I am not sure.

I lost many books in a fire in 2007, so I can't just go diving for it now.

MSH: That sounds somewhat familiar. There was a variety of stories in there.

[ChairmanPoo]

On the same lines, does anyone recall this other book? It was a short story collection. I recall the synopsis of some of them

- One of them was about a spy who grew glowing fungus in the roof of buildings during WW2 to signal which buildings to bomb to the germans

- Another one was about a ghost cat

- Another one was about some apparition-thing that apparently was caused by an old, wrecked gargolye in a cathedral (might or might not have been called "Jack of the Shadows". It is NOT Zelazny's story)

[nbonaparte]

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FUCK. It was kind of endearing after a few seconds, then it moved.

[dragonshardz]

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HO DEAR GOD.

It was creepy enough without movement!

Taking that to /x/.

[Cthulhu]

SSTTITD is already all over /x/

[Nivim]

 You know...I just barely remember picking up that book ("Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark"), off a desk in elementary school and starting to read it. I remember three stories; the windigo, the witch and tack, and the one with the man cursed with cold. I analyzed them both, so much like Threetoe's stories today, and gave people my definition of "windigo" when no one spoke. I described it as an air elemental that would that would grab random people every so often and drag them at incredible speeds until they burned away, then it would possess the ashes of that person and talk to people with them. When its ashes went bad (I didn't think they needed a reason at the time) the windigo would pick up another person and do the same trick.

 None of the other stories in the book I picked up were very interesting, although I think a couple made an impression for a few weeks for vivid pretence (make pretend, hallucinations that go away sometimes, following these like a code of conduct).

 I'm afraid to ask, but are you guys posting your genuine reaction to that picture?