Anyone remember "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark"?

[Valiere]

For some reason, all the suppressed memories of lying awake in bed, terrified, after reading these books as a kid came back up. For those who weren't fortunate enough to have them around in elementary school, these are some of the most controversial books ever. They're just cheesy retellings of urban legends we've all heard by now. The illustrations are the kicker. Imagine seeing these as a little 9-year-old:














Anyone else remember something that terrified you as a kid?

[Archem]

No. I think I'm scare-proof. I mean, even the pop-out screamy-type scary things only barely get a reaction out of me. Also, I'd seen much more horrifying things by the time I was nine.

[fruckert]

I am was a wimp.
Pretty much anything that could have scared someone, scared me.
I'm pretty much immune to terror unless it's of the "Holy hell what the **** just happened" type, such as seeing a rat made out of maggots every time I wake up.
Which happened for a couple of days a few months ago.

[Fortet]

Oh, I remember those books! Or at least one of them... We have one...
Loved it as a kid

[Uberpwn_w00t]

I had some pretty extreme experiences with the paranormal when I was younger. I'm not sure if it has made me more afraid, or less afraid of things like this.

[Archem]

Mine made me less afraid. They also made me a skeptic, which has reduced my ability to believe in the paranormal down to almost nil.

[_JeT_]

I remember this from when I was a kid, all the way back in the 20th century. I liked them.
I always thought the illustrations were pretty cool, I recall trying to draw in that style at the time, and I failed pretty badly >_>

And, I will admit, some of the stories scared me when I was younger.

[Uberpwn_w00t]

reduced my ability to believe in the paranormal down to almost nil.

Wait, your experiences with the paranormal reduced your ability to believe in the paranormal?

[Archem]

Yeah, I know. I guess I somehow refused to believe that there wasn't a rational explanation for what I'd experienced. Some might call it "denial", I might call it "curiosity".

[A Forgotten Legend]

All those terrible images...

I loved them, but were terribly frightened of them.  But enjoyed reading them.

I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight.  Better get the night-light.

[Uberpwn_w00t]

Yeah, I know. I guess I somehow refused to believe that there wasn't a rational explanation for what I'd experienced. Some might call it "denial", I might call it "curiosity".

Well I'm also a skeptic, but it's hard to be skeptical about things you've seen with your own eyes. Isn't that a big part of skepticism anyway? 'Seeing is believing'?

That being said, I like to think that there is a rational explanation for what I've experienced, and that we just haven't found it yet. Probably because we're too busy either ignoring it completely, commercializing it, or coming up with outlandish and/or religious explanations.

I'm not going to completely ignore my experiences, but I'm not going to say I lived in a 'haunted house' full of 'ghosts' and shit either.

[Zerlina]

When I was a kid, I saw this episode of Sinbad where some guy gets his face sucked off and all that's left is his skull and eyeballs and burned hair. That turned me off anything remotely shaped like a head. I couldn't even look at the shower head when I took a bath.

Also there was this episode (I think it was the X-Files) where they show a decomposing corpse in time lapse. That scared the **** out of me too.

[Valiere]

I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight.  Better get the night-light.

I hereby declare this topic a success.

[Cerebus]

Never heard of them. Looks interesting...
And my lack of any paranormal experience makes me quite sceptic of... paranormal. No matter what happens there is always a rational explanation. Some times it might be harder to find any explanation, but there is always one. In my opinion, of course.
As for one thing that scared me when I was young... that part in that Roger Rabbits movie, where this guys' eyes turn into knives or something... I don't know why, but it did. A lot. Now it doesn't anymore. Or so I think. Haven't seen that movie for a long, long time.

And speaking of explanations... can someone explain me why movie is considered an error and soviet is in the potential "corrections"..?

[Desimodontidae]

as I recall the stories weren't scary at all, but damn those were some cool illustrations..