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* RiddleForTheAges: "Wait 'till Martin Comes" - what were the cats planning to do to the man and why were they waiting for Martin? (The man probably did the right thing by [[YouDoNotWantToKnow not sticking around to find out]]).
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* DrivenToMadness:
** ''The Dead Man's Hand'' has a poor nursing student reduced to a catatonic, mumbling shell when she find a corpse's hand in her dorm, a prank gone horribly awry.
** The fraternity from "The Curse". After two new pledges disappear mysteriously, the remaining members either go insane or die, including the narrator's uncle. It's unknown if this is really a curse or their own collective guilt haunting them.
** Tom Patterson in "The Dead Hand" ventures into the swamp to look for mysterious monsters. Whatever he sees out there is not friendly, as he turns up weeks later, ''his mind shattered.''
** ''The Dead Man's Hand'' has a poor nursing student reduced to a catatonic, mumbling shell when she find a corpse's hand in her dorm, a prank gone horribly awry.
** The fraternity from "The Curse". After two new pledges disappear mysteriously, the remaining members either go insane or die, including the narrator's uncle. It's unknown if this is really a curse or their own collective guilt haunting them.
** Tom Patterson in "The Dead Hand" ventures into the swamp to look for mysterious monsters. Whatever he sees out there is not friendly, as he turns up weeks later, ''his mind shattered.''
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* {{Psychopomp}}: The shadowy little men from "Like Cats' Eyes" visit the house of a dying man named Jim Brand and carry something (implied to be Jim's soul) into their hearse before driving away, leading a nurse to inform Jim's wife that he died.
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* HideAndSeekHorror: In "The Bride" from ''More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark'', a minister's daughter is getting married and decides to play hide-and-seek with her guests. She decides to hide in her grandfather's trunk in the attic, but as she's climbing into it, the lid comes down and knocks her unconscious, and she suffocates to death. When nobody can find her, everyone thinks she's run away. Years later, a maid enters the attic looking for something, opens the trunk, and screams when she finds the bride's skeleton.
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** In "The Thing", two young men encounter a monstrous corpse-like apparition that chases them for a while before disappearing. [[spoiler:A year later, one of them succumbs to a mysterious disease that eats away at him until he looks just like the monster they saw.]]
** "The New Horse" has the witch who transforms people into horses with a magic bridle. That's not the horror part. That part comes when [[spoiler:one of the witch's victims turns the bridle on her and gives her horseshoes. When the woman changes back, the horse shoes are ''nailed into her hands and feet''!]]
** "The New Horse" has the witch who transforms people into horses with a magic bridle. That's not the horror part. That part comes when [[spoiler:one of the witch's victims turns the bridle on her and gives her horseshoes. When the woman changes back, the horse shoes are ''nailed into her hands and feet''!]]
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** In "The Dead Hand," Tom tells his friends/fellow villagers that if he gets scared or runs away during their dare, he'll never make fun of them again. [[spoiler:It turns out he can't make fun of them again because the monsters he encountered in the swamp not only ripped off one of his hands, they [[GoMadFromTheRevelation turned him into a gibbering wreck.]]]]
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** In "The Dead Hand," Tom tells his friends/fellow friends and fellow villagers that if he gets scared or runs away during their dare, he'll never make fun of them again. [[spoiler:It turns out he can't make fun of them again because the monsters he encountered in the swamp not only ripped off one of his hands, they [[GoMadFromTheRevelation turned him into a gibbering wreck.]]]]
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* GreenEyedMonster: In "The Bed by the Window," Richard and George are in a hospital together, sharing a room that has only one window. George's bed is right next to it, and he spends his days happily telling Richard all of the wonderful things he can see in the outside world. Richard is overcome with envy and murders George by hiding his heart medication so ''he'' can have the window all to himself. [[spoiler: But after Richard succeeds, he discovers that the window actually looks on nothing but a blank brick wall.]]
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* HowlingToTheNight: The wolves in "The Wolf Girl" howl in the night before attacking the livestock of the men who took the titular wolf girl, and the wolf girl responds before fleeing with them.
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* ForcedTransformation: "A New Horse", Throwing a [[TransformationTrinket magic bridle]] on someone transforms them into a horse. Fortunately for them, removing it changes them back.
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* HeroicBystander: One truck driver sees [[spoiler:a man sneaking into a girl's car, in the backseat]]. He proceeds to follow her and keeping his lights on so the [[spoiler:man can't attack her. When the police come and demand and investigation, he points out the would-be assailant]].
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* HeroicBystander: One truck driver sees [[spoiler:a man sneaking into a girl's car, in the backseat]]. He proceeds to follow her and keeping keeps his lights on so the [[spoiler:man can't attack her. When the police come and demand and investigation, he points out the would-be assailant]].
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** The knife salesman from "No Thanks" is just described as "a man" in the text, but his appearance in [[https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/photo-gallery/36151560/image/36151581/Thanks the original illustration]] suggests otherwise.
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** The knife salesman from "No Thanks" is just described as "a man" in the text, but his appearance in [[https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/photo-gallery/36151560/image/36151581/Thanks the original illustration]] illustration suggests otherwise.
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Harper-Collins released new editions of ''Scary Stories'' and ''More Scary Stories'' in 2011, albeit replacing Gammell's artwork with new artwork by Brett Helquist (best known for his work on ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''), eliciting mass controversy. There was a price spike (and a high one!) when older editions were pulled from store shelves, but Scholastic Press, who released the books originally, still sells them with the original art.
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Harper-Collins released new editions of ''Scary Stories'' and ''More Scary Stories'' in 2011, albeit replacing Gammell's artwork with new artwork by Brett Helquist (best known for his work on ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''), eliciting a mass controversy.outcry. There was a price spike (and a high one!) when older editions were pulled from store shelves, but Scholastic Press, who released the books originally, still sells them with the original art.
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* ExcitedShowTitle: "Me Tie Dough-ty Walker!", "Oh Susannah!", "Hello, Kate!", "It's Him!", and "Thuuuup!".
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** The "Horrible Thing" from ''Is Something Wrong?''. Despite its hideous, abomination-like appearance, it appears to be [[AffablyEvil polite]], and it is left unknown what, if anything it does to the main character.
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** The "Horrible Thing" from ''Is Something Wrong?''. Wrong?'' Despite its hideous, abomination-like appearance, it appears to be [[AffablyEvil rather polite]], and it is left unknown what, if anything anything, it does to the main character.
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This trio of books is probably one of the most controversial series to hit American bookshelves. ''Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark'' is a trilogy of children's books written by Alvin Schwartz, made up of stories based on urban legends and local myths. These are the three volumes:
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The series is geared towards extremely young audiences ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids not that this stops the stories from being surprisingly violent]]), and while the stories may be scary for an eight-year old, older audiences will find them more cheesy than anything. Instead, what makes the books so scary (and [[MoralGuardians controversial]]) are the illustrations that accompany them.
Using little more than black ink and water, Creator/StephenGammell has given us some of the most notoriously terrifying pictures you'll ever see in a book. So much so that the Scary Stories are on the American Library Association's list of most challenged books (ie, MoralGuardians demanding they be pulled from library shelves), being the number one most challenged book for over a decade.
Likely because of this controversy, Harper-Collins released ''Scary Stories'' and ''More Scary Stories'' in new editions with considerably less unnerving artwork by Brett Helquist (best known for his work on ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''). There was a price spike (and a high one!) when older editions were pulled from store shelves, but Scholastic Press, who released the books originally, still sells them with the original art. Hooray!
The stories were also collected and turned into a series of audiobooks with the same names. While they didn't contain any of the scary pictures from the books, the sometimes over-the-top telling of the stories could be a great replacement.
Using little more than black ink and water, Creator/StephenGammell has given us some of the most notoriously terrifying pictures you'll ever see in a book. So much so that the Scary Stories are on the American Library Association's list of most challenged books (ie, MoralGuardians demanding they be pulled from library shelves), being the number one most challenged book for over a decade.
Likely because of this controversy, Harper-Collins released ''Scary Stories'' and ''More Scary Stories'' in new editions with considerably less unnerving artwork by Brett Helquist (best known for his work on ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''). There was a price spike (and a high one!) when older editions were pulled from store shelves, but Scholastic Press, who released the books originally, still sells them with the original art. Hooray!
The stories were also collected and turned into a series of audiobooks with the same names. While they didn't contain any of the scary pictures from the books, the sometimes over-the-top telling of the stories could be a great replacement.
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The series is geared towards extremely young audiences ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids not that this stops the stories from being surprisingly violent]]), and while the stories may be scary for an eight-year old, older audiences will may likely find them more cheesy than anything. Instead, what makes However, the key factor cited for giving the books so scary their impact (and [[MoralGuardians controversial]]) are much of their controversy) comes in the illustrations that accompany them.
Using little more than black ink and water, Creator/StephenGammellhas given us some of brought Schwartz's stories to life with a dark, [[SugarWiki/AwesomeArt evocative]] art style, with his artwork considered by many as among the most notoriously terrifying pictures you'll disturbing imagery ever see published in a book. So much so that book, let alone one for children. As a result of both this and the Scary Stories are on subject matter of the stories, the series was listed by the American Library Association's list of Association as the single most challenged books (ie, challenged[[note]] MoralGuardians demanding they be pulled from library shelves), being shelves[[/note]] book series of the number one 1990s, and the seventh most challenged book for of the 2000s. That being said, the series has collectively sold over a decade.
Likely because of this controversy,seven million copies.
Harper-Collins released new editions of ''Scary Stories'' and ''More Scary Stories'' innew editions 2011, albeit replacing Gammell's artwork with considerably less unnerving new artwork by Brett Helquist (best known for his work on ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''). ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''), eliciting mass controversy. There was a price spike (and a high one!) when older editions were pulled from store shelves, but Scholastic Press, who released the books originally, still sells them with the original art. Hooray!
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** Then, of course, there's the ghost from "The Haunted House". The iconic illustration is horrific, but all she wants is her husband brought to justice and her death avenged.
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** Then, of course, there's the ghost from "The Haunted House". The iconic illustration is horrific, but all she wants is her husband brought to justice and her death avenged. She also kindly tells him where she hid her money so he could give it to the church.
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* IHaveThisFriend: When Addie Fitch dies at the end of "Such Things Happen," Bill Nelson explains to the doctor that he knew somebody who thought Addie was a witch, and preformed a ritual to stop her instead of admitting that he did it himself, so nobody believed he was crazy or superstitious, or even the one responsible([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane ?]]) for her death.
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* GhostPirate: A GhostShip full of wounded, undead pirates appears in "A Weird Blue Light," implied to be the ghost of Jean Lafitte's pirate ship and crew, which sunk in 1821-1822.
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** The corpse from "Somebody Fell From Aloft," appears to be one, although he's simply referred to as a "ghost" by the captain.
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* RevenantZombie: A couple stories feature them, including the titular Aaron Kelly from "Aaron Kelly's Bones" and Jim from "Cold as Clay." The undead mass in "One Sunday Morning" are more malevolent examples, [[FantasticRacism being hateful towards the living.]]
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* RevenantZombie: A couple stories feature them, including the titular Aaron Kelly from "Aaron Kelly's Bones" and Jim from "Cold as Clay." "
** The undead mass in "One Sunday Morning" are more malevolent examples, [[FantasticRacism being hateful towards the living.]]]]
** The corpse from "Somebody Fell From Aloft," appears to be one, although he's simply referred to as a "ghost" by the captain.
** The undead mass in "One Sunday Morning" are more malevolent examples, [[FantasticRacism being hateful towards the living.
** The corpse from "Somebody Fell From Aloft," appears to be one, although he's simply referred to as a "ghost" by the captain.
