Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

[Raistlin]

I think they still have the desired effect on the target audience though (assuming they're still read by kids now days, I have no idea if they're still big or not). It's not really fair to say that the stories are lame when you're well over age bracket they're intended for.

I started reading Goosebumps from when I was so young my mom was reading them to me at night. But I never thought they were as scary as those other titles I mentioned. Looking back, most of it was probably just because of the Goosebumps name and how popular it was.

[Clo]

Pictures from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark > all Goosebumps book combined.

[Bunny]

I missed out on Are You Afraid of the Dark? because I had no cable or satellite as a kid, but I think I heard a lot of the stories at sleepovers (and we did Bloody Mary! Bloody mary, bloody mary, bloody mary...)

A group of my friends did that one night. The next night the police found a person who was murdered with a knife (or some other sort of knife-like object) leaning against a telephone pole. It was quite the creepy coincidence.

[rubah]

fear street didn't have pictures though. Scary Stories was good in its own way.

My favorites though were the Choose Your Own Adventure! Goosebumps books.

[Pheesh]

I think they still have the desired effect on the target audience though (assuming they're still read by kids now days, I have no idea if they're still big or not). It's not really fair to say that the stories are lame when you're well over age bracket they're intended for.

I started reading Goosebumps from when I was so young my mom was reading them to me at night. But I never thought they were as scary as those other titles I mentioned. Looking back, most of it was probably just because of the Goosebumps name and how popular it was.

I'll agree they weren't incredibly scary (although there was one about a scarecrow that kept me up at night, and also one about some ghost in a cave or something), but they were still fairly exciting. By the time I was bored of them I was reading fear street and then I moved on to Stephen King, so they certainly filled a large part of my childhood. Also, there was so smurfing many of them, so it meant I always had something to read.

[Clo]

Phil, Phil, you mentioning Stephen King makes me want to bring up "The Raft" again.

Because that really bothered me when I first read it! I was afraid to stick a leg over the side of the bed that night.

Also, "The Jaunt" still gets to me sometimes, too.

[Pheesh]

Yeah, the raft is one of his best. I think I also mentioned to you once that I was scared for weeks after I read "The Boogeyman" by Stephen King, reading it back now it's not one of his scariest, but at the time it scared me half to death.

Also, Rubah, the 'choose you own adventure' books were so awesome. Except I used to cheat so bad ^_^

[Christmas]

I laughed at the one about eating toe.

[rubah]

oh I cheated too-- I just read them straight through, or started at an ending and worked backwards. I wasn't brave enough to choose interesting forks.

[Shiny]

Oh mang, I love these books. I remember I told Stu about them. They're so good! I use to read them when I was really young and I couldn't understand why they were available in my elementary school's library as some of the photos and stories a bit off for that age group. I also loved watching Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark. My favorite episode was the one with the puppet.

[Clo]

My favorite Goosebumps was the one where they played tag with those creatures in the woods. I don't know why, they creeped me out.

[Breine]

I didn't read those specific stories, but I did read some other similar ones when I was a kid.

We also had Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark here.

[DMKA]

My sister had one of these books. The one with "THE VIPER" in it. It had some horrifying artwork in it alright.

I read a lot of Goosebumps myself. It only had weird artwork on the covers but nothing that could compare to what was in these books.