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* DomesticAbuser: George Flint from "Just Delicious" is heavily implied to be abusive towards his wife, Mina. He's flat out stated to be [[{{Jerkass}} "a bully."]]
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* {{Wendigo}}: Well, "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Wendigo]]", even though in the Sources section in the back, Alvin Scwartz makes it [[CultureChopSuey sound more like a Greek mythological Siren than an evil spirit of cannibalism]]. This is because the story is an altered version of Algernon Blackwood's 1910 short story "The Wendigo," which doesn't much resemble the original folklore either.
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* AdoringThePests: Subverted in "Sam's New Pet." After the family found out what it ''really'' was, it's unlikely they kept it.
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** In "The Dream" we never find out the identity of the mysterious woman or why the place is supposedly evil.
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The series is geared towards extremely young audiences (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]]), on the other hand, are the illustrations that accompany them. Using little more than black ink and water, Stephen Gammell 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. And to think ''these books were marketed [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids TO KIDS!]]'' Unfortunately (and likely because of this controversy), ''Scary Stories'' and ''More Scary Stories'' have been released in new editions with considerably less unnerving artwork by Brett Helquist (best known for his work on ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''), while copies with the original art have been pulled from shelves and are now worth a ton over the Internet.
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 [[{{Narm}} over the top]] telling of the stories could be a great replacement.
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 [[{{Narm}} over the top]] telling of the stories could be a great replacement.
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The series is geared towards extremely young audiences (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]]), on the other hand, are the illustrations that accompany them. Using little more than black ink and water, Stephen Gammell 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. And to think ''these books were marketed [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids TO KIDS!]]'' Unfortunately (and likely Likely because of this controversy), controversy, ''Scary Stories'' and ''More Scary Stories'' have been released in new editions with considerably less unnerving artwork by Brett Helquist (best known for his work on ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''), ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''), while copies with the original art have been pulled from shelves and are now worth a ton over the Internet.
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[[{{Narm}} over the top]] top telling of the stories could be a great replacement.
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
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:The husband in "Just Delicious".]]
** The guy in "The Little Black Dog" too.
** The woman in "It's Him!"
** The woman in "A New Horse", who puts innocent farmhands through the painful experience of being transformed into a horse and ridden at high speeds around the countryside. [[spoiler: While her comeuppance - being transformed into a horse, having horseshoes nailed into her hands and feet, and transforming back into a human, ''with the horseshoes still on'' - is quite painful and freaky, we don't feel too bad for her when it happens.]]
** Addie Finch from "Such Things Happen"
** The guy in "The Little Black Dog" too.
** The woman in "It's Him!"
** The woman in "A New Horse", who puts innocent farmhands through the painful experience of being transformed into a horse and ridden at high speeds around the countryside. [[spoiler: While her comeuppance - being transformed into a horse, having horseshoes nailed into her hands and feet, and transforming back into a human, ''with the horseshoes still on'' - is quite painful and freaky, we don't feel too bad for her when it happens.]]
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* BodyHorror: "The Red Spot". [[spoiler:To elaborate: an itchy spot turns out to have spiders pouring out of it. You're welcome.]]
* {{Bowdlerise}}: The new Brett Helquist illustrations are ''far'' tamer than Gammell's-- and less memorable because of it. [[http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2011/12/18/scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark-gammell-vs-helquist/ This blog article]] compares some of them.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: The new Brett Helquist illustrations are ''far'' tamer than Gammell's-- and less memorable because of it. [[http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2011/12/18/scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark-gammell-vs-helquist/ This blog article]] compares some of them.
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* BodyHorror: "The Red Spot". [[spoiler:To elaborate: an [[spoiler:An itchy spot turns out to have spiders pouring out of it. You're welcome.]]
* {{Bowdlerise}}: The new Brett Helquist illustrations are ''far'' tamer thanGammell's-- and less memorable because of it.Gammell's. [[http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2011/12/18/scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark-gammell-vs-helquist/ This blog article]] compares some of them.
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* GrotesqueGallery: "The Haunted House" and "The Dream". That is all.
** Every picture in the series counts.
** Every picture in the series counts.
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* ImAHumanitarian: Is anyone a little creeped out by how much cannibalism there is in certain stories? Exhibit A: "Wonderful Sausage".
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* ImAHumanitarian: Is anyone a little creeped out by how much cannibalism there is in certain stories? Exhibit A: "Wonderful Sausage".
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** Mr Gammell somehow manages to pull off a few in the illustrations. If you dare, stare at "The White Satin Evening Gown", "The Black Dog", "The Ghost in the Mirror" and "The Trouble" for a good five minutes.
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** Not to mention "The Attic". The story ends with Rupert screaming [[spoiler: after stepping on a nail in his barefeet]] and we never find out what was making noise in the titular attic. [[WhatHappenedtotheMouse Also, he never found his dog, which went missing at the start.]]
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** Not to mention "The Attic". The story ends with Rupert screaming [[spoiler: after stepping on a nail in his barefeet]] and we never find out what was making noise in the titular attic. [[WhatHappenedtotheMouse Also, he never found his dog, which went missing at the start.]]
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** Not to mention that in "Maybe You Will Remember...", the doctor's excuse that he "didn't have a telephone right now" wouldn't work in this day and age.
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* {{Wendigo}}: Well, "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Wendigo]]", even though in the Sources section in the back, Alvin Scwartz makes it [[CultureChopSuey sound more like a Greek mythological Siren than an evil spirit of cannibalism]].
** This is because the story is an altered version of Algernon Blackwood's 1910 short story "The Wendigo," which doesn't much resemble the original folklore either.
** This is because the story is an altered version of Algernon Blackwood's 1910 short story "The Wendigo," which doesn't much resemble the original folklore either.
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* {{Wendigo}}: Well, "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Wendigo]]", even though in the Sources section in the back, Alvin Scwartz makes it [[CultureChopSuey sound more like a Greek mythological Siren than an evil spirit of cannibalism]].
**cannibalism]]. This is because the story is an altered version of Algernon Blackwood's 1910 short story "The Wendigo," which doesn't much resemble the original folklore either.
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The series is geared towards extremely young audiences (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]]), on the other hand, are the illustrations that accompany them. Using little more than black ink and water, Stephen Gammell 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. And to think ''[[PeripheryDemographic these ''these books were marketed]] marketed [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids TO KIDS!]]'' Unfortunately (and likely because of this controversy), ''Scary Stories'' and ''More Scary Stories'' have been released in new editions with considerably less unnerving artwork by Brett Helquist (best known for his work on ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''), while copies with the original art have been pulled from shelves and are now worth a ton over the Internet.
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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 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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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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Strangely, [[NightmareRetardant the stories themselves aren't much, cheesy at best,]] though they can get [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence surprisingly violent.]] What makes the books so scary (and [[MoralGuardians controversial]]), on the other hand, are the illustrations that accompany them. Using little more than black ink and water, Stephen Gammell 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). And to think ''[[PeripheryDemographic these books were marketed]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids TO KIDS!]]'' Perhaps because of the controversy, ''Scary Stories'' and ''More Scary Stories'' have been released in new editions with considerably less unnerving artwork by Brett Helquist (best known for his work on ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'').
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Strangely, [[NightmareRetardant the stories themselves aren't much, cheesy at best,]] though they can get [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence surprisingly violent.]] What makes the books so scary (and [[MoralGuardians controversial]]), on the other hand, are the illustrations that accompany them. Using little more than black ink and water, Stephen Gammell 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). And to think ''[[PeripheryDemographic this book was these books were marketed]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids TO KIDS!]]'' Perhaps because of the controversy, ''Scary Stories'' and ''More Scary Stories'' have been released in new editions with considerably less unnerving artwork by Brett Helquist (best known for his work on ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'').
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Strangely, [[NightmareRetardant the stories themselves aren't much, cheesy at best,]] though they can get [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence surprisingly violent.]] What makes the books so scary (and [[MoralGuardians controversial]]), on the other hand, are the illustrations that accompany them. Using little more than black ink and water, Stephen Gammell 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). And to think ''[[PeripheryDemographic this book was marketed]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids TO KIDS!]]'' Perhaps because of this, the controversy, ''Scary Stories'' and ''More Scary Stories'' have been released in new editions with considerably less unnerving artwork by Brett Helquist (best known for his work on ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'').
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** The books themselves - all of the volumes have a collection of humorous stories near the end, ranging from terrible puns, black comedy, or hilarious subversions of the usual endings.
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* TemptingFate: In "The Bride," the eponymous bride cleverly whispers to herself "They'll never find me there." [[DownerEnding Turns out she was right]].
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* BreakingAndBloodsucking: In "the Window", a girl sees a monster lurking out her window and she's too frightened to do anything. She unfortunately gives it the time to smash its way in, grab her, and bite into her throat. Her screams allow her brothers to save her and chase it off. [[PoliceAreUseless The police pass it off as an escaped lunatic who thinks he's a vampire]]. Months later, the vampire comes clawing at her window again, but she screams at the sight of it and her brothers are able to track and kill it.
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For those whom the illustrations were too terrifying for, here is the link to the [[TheFilmOfTheBook movie versions]] [[http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MoonRaven09#g/u of the Scary Stories]]. ('''Caution''': The movie versions of "One Sunday Morning", "The Dream" and "The Red Spot" are NotSafeForWork)
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* ShownTheirWork: Most definitely. Each book ends with a comprehensive collection of sources, references, times, dates and locations.
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* ShownTheirWork: Most definitely. Each book ends with a comprehensive collection of sources, references, times, dates and locations. Of course, there are plenty of mistakes in those lists. See the YMMV page for details.
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Strangely, [[NightmareRetardant the stories themselves aren't much, cheesy at best,]] though they can get [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence surprisingly violent.]] What makes the books so scary (and [[MoralGuardians controversial]]), on the other hand, are the illustrations that accompany them. Using little more than black and white ink, Stephen Gammell 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). Perhaps because of this, ''Scary Stories'' and ''More Scary Stories'' have been released in new editions with considerably less unnerving artwork by Brett Helquist (best known for his work on ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'').
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#Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1981)
#More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1984)
#Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones (1991)
Strangely, [[NightmareRetardant the stories themselves aren't much, cheesy at best,]] though they can get [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence surprisingly violent.]] What makes the books so scary (and [[MoralGuardians controversial]]), on the other hand, are the illustrations that accompany them. Using little more than black and white ink, Stephen Gammell 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). Perhaps because of this, ''Scary Stories'' and ''More Scary Stories'' have been released in new editions with considerably less unnerving artwork by Brett Helquist (best known for his work on ''{{A Series of Unfortunate Events}}'').
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 [[{{Narm}} over the top]] telling of the stories could be a great replacement.
For those who the illustrations were too terrifying for, here is the link to the [[TheFilmOfTheBook movie versions]] [[http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MoonRaven09#g/u of the Scary Stories]]. ('''Caution''': The movie versions of "One Sunday Morning", "The Dream" and "The Red Spot" are NotSafeForWork)
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!!These books provide examples of:
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: The nursing school in "The Dead Man's Hand." Apparently at this school, being and nice and friendly and not having bad habits is a ''bad'' thing.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:The husband in "Just Delicious".]]
** The guy in "The Little Black Dog" too.
** The woman in "It's Him!"
** The woman in "A New Horse", who puts innocent farmhands through the painful experience of being transformed into a horse and ridden at high speeds around the countryside. [[spoiler: While her comeuppance - being transformed into a horse, having horseshoes nailed into her hands and feet, and transforming back into a human, ''with the horseshoes still on'' - is quite painful and freaky, we don't feel too bad for her when it happens.]]
** Addie Finch from "Such Things Happen"
* BalefulPolymorph: "A New Horse", Throwing a [[TransformationTrinket magic bridle]] on someone transforms them into a horse. Fortunately for them, removing it changes them back.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: "What Do You Come For?". A lonesome old woman wishes for some company. [[spoiler: She gets a living corpse that comes down the chimney and (most likely) kills her.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Since the story "What Do You Come For?" is only a page long, we don't get an explanation as to ''why'' the undead guy killed the old lady. Probably because he's undead [[AlwaysChaoticEvil and they're expected to do that]].
* BodyHorror: "The Red Spot". [[spoiler:To elaborate: an itchy spot turns out to have spiders pouring out of it. You're welcome.]]
* {{Bowdlerise}}: The new Brett Helquist illustrations are ''far'' tamer than Gammell's-- and less memorable because of it. [[http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2011/12/18/scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark-gammell-vs-helquist/ This blog article]] compares some of them.
* TheCakeIsALie: "The Drum"
* TheCallsAreComingFromInsideTheHouse: The Babysitter
* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler:"Bess".]]
* CrypticBackgroundReference: The creepy woman from "The Dream" saying that the house with the carpet shaped like trapdoors and the windows nailed shut is an evil place. We never learn why, and it appears to be part of a larger story that the protagonist is not meant to be part of. She leaves before we learn anything more.
* [[IncrediblyLamePun Darker]] [[DarkerAndEdgier And Edgier]]: Scary Stories 3.
* DeathByDespair: "Cold as Clay"
* DemBones: Skeletons make many appearances: "The Thing", "Aaron Kelly's Bones", "The Bad News", "Is Something Wrong", "What Do You Come For", whatever the hell that thing is in the sky in the illustration for "Oh Susannah" etc.
* DisproportionateRetribution: "Such Things Happen".
* DoomedNewClothes: The White Satin Evening Gown, although much more extreme than the trope normally calls for.
* DownerEnding: Quite a few stories.
* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: "The Red Spot". Well, it's really "Face Full Of Spider Wing Wong", but it still applies.
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: For a children's book, the stories delve into the gore field quite frequently, one key example being "Wonderful Sausage".
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8uK12XFyrQ The movie version]] really [[BloodierAndGorier piles on the gore]].
* GovernmentConspiracy: More like a local government conspiracy, but this is what happens in "Maybe You Will Remember..."
* GrotesqueGallery: "The Haunted House" and "The Dream". That is all.
** Every picture in the series counts.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: The ghost in "The Dream" may well be cringe-inducing to look at, but to be fair, she did save the girl in the story from some unknown gruesome fate, so...
** The truck driver in "High Beams" is a straight example.
* HeyItsThatVoice: The audiobooks are narrated by [[TheYearWithoutASantaClaus Heat Miser]]
* ImAHumanitarian: Is anyone a little creeped out by how much cannibalism there is in certain stories? Exhibit A: "Wonderful Sausage".
* JumpScare: In the film version of "Clinkety Clink" it SEEMS like that story would end with the old woman's ghost being unable to find her two silver dollars. But then... fade to black... two second pause... [[spoiler: "'''''YOU'VE GOT IT!'''''" (scream)]]
** It's invoked in the book version - it's meant to be read out loud, and requires the reader to do the same to the audience, complete with grabbing someone.
** Inverted in "The Attic". The reader has to scream as loud as they can at the end, and end the story there. At least someone in the audience will ask why they screamed - the reader then explains [[spoiler:you'd scream at the top of your lungs, too, [[MunDanger if you stepped on a nail.]]]]
* LighterAndSofter: The last story is always a lighter version of the first story. The second book's end portion had a comedic collection of the supernatural.
* MegaNeko: In "Wait 'till Martin comes", there are three black cats, one normal sized, another cat the size of a wolf, and still another the size of a tiger. [[spoiler: None of those cats are Martin, leading to the suspicion that "Martin" is the size of an elephant]]
* MindScrew: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfdz4kemwBM "A Man Who Lived in Leeds"]]. The film version does this as well, in a VERY messed up way.
** Mr Gammell somehow manages to pull off a few in the illustrations. If you dare, stare at "The White Satin Evening Gown", "The Black Dog", "The Ghost in the Mirror" and "The Trouble" for a good five minutes.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERLaA8qSE1Q&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL "The Church"]], both in the book and the film version. [[spoiler: Hands up, who expected sheep?]]
* MoodWhiplash: "Faster and Faster." It starts with two young boys having fun in the woods, and then the supernatural stuff rears its ugly head.
* NoEnding: The story about the severed hand in the closet. See fuller discussion in the NoEnding page.
** Not to mention "The Attic". The story ends with Rupert screaming [[spoiler: after stepping on a nail in his barefeet]] and we never find out what was making noise in the titular attic. [[WhatHappenedtotheMouse Also, he never found his dog, which went missing at the start.]]
* NothingIsScarier: What "The Voice" turns out to be, and "Footsteps" as well. "Sounds" might count, although it's subverted toward the end.
** "The Curse" might also count. We never do find out exactly what happened to the boys who went into the house.
* ParentalAbandonment: "The Drum" gives us one of the worst possible examples of this at the end.
** DisproportionateRetribution: Even after the mom gave the girls one more chance, she ''still'' abandoned them. Boy, that lady has trust issues.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: "Alligators" (with the added twist that [[spoiler: the titular 'gators are actually the protagonist's transformed husband and sons]]), and "Bess" (in which [[spoiler: the protagonist is fatally bitten by a snake.]])
* RiseOfZitboy: "The Red Spot" mostly consists of the protagonist complaining about the disgusting, itching, hurting and growing spider bite - which is basically a zit - on her cheek. However, it turns out to be ''[[BodyHorror much]]'' worse than just a zit...
* ScaryScarecrows: The eponymous "Harold".
* ShaggyDogStory: In "The Baby Sitter", when the girl learns that [[spoiler: the calls are coming from upstairs, she simply calls the police and leaves and the man is arrested.]] The end.
* ShownTheirWork: Most definitely. Each book ends with a comprehensive collection of sources, references, times, dates and locations.
* SwampsAreEvil: "The Dead Hand"
* TechnologyMarchesOn: The driver in "Is Something Wrong?" probably could have avoided that whole mess (especially the encounter with the monster) if he had a cell phone.
** Not to mention that in "Maybe You Will Remember...", the doctor's excuse that he "didn't have a telephone right now" wouldn't work in this day and age.
* TomatoInTheMirror: "Something Was Wrong"
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: "Aaron Kelly's Bones". Features a widow's husband rising from the grave because he doesn't feel dead enough to die. In whatever universe this story takes place in, the rising dead are apparently nothing special, with the characters more annoyed than anything that this corpse insists on living. How that dead man danced...
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler:"Alligators"]]
* {{Wendigo}}: Well, "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Wendigo]]", even though in the Sources section in the back, Alvin Scwartz makes it [[CultureChopSuey sound more like a Greek mythological Siren than an evil spirit of cannibalism]].
* TheWildHunt: "Faster and Faster".
* YouCantFightFate: "Bess" and "The Appointment".
** This trope is somewhat in effect in [[spoiler:"The Dream". After the eponymous nightmare, the girl in the story can't bring herself to visit the town she originally intended, so she visits an alternate village instead. Guess who she meets in this new town? That's right, that bloody pale woman.]]
* YoutubePoop: Is becoming an increasingly popular source; search for "[[TomServo3 Tom]]'s Terrifying Tales From the Toaster".
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#Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1981)
#More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1984)
#Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones (1991)
Strangely, [[NightmareRetardant the stories themselves aren't much, cheesy at best,]] though they can get [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence surprisingly violent.]] What makes the books so scary (and [[MoralGuardians controversial]]), on the other hand, are the illustrations that accompany them. Using little more than black and white ink, Stephen Gammell 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). Perhaps because of this, ''Scary Stories'' and ''More Scary Stories'' have been released in new editions with considerably less unnerving artwork by Brett Helquist (best known for his work on ''{{A Series of Unfortunate Events}}'').
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 [[{{Narm}} over the top]] telling of the stories could be a great replacement.
For those who the illustrations were too terrifying for, here is the link to the [[TheFilmOfTheBook movie versions]] [[http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MoonRaven09#g/u of the Scary Stories]]. ('''Caution''': The movie versions of "One Sunday Morning", "The Dream" and "The Red Spot" are NotSafeForWork)
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!!These books provide examples of:
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: The nursing school in "The Dead Man's Hand." Apparently at this school, being and nice and friendly and not having bad habits is a ''bad'' thing.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:The husband in "Just Delicious".]]
** The guy in "The Little Black Dog" too.
** The woman in "It's Him!"
** The woman in "A New Horse", who puts innocent farmhands through the painful experience of being transformed into a horse and ridden at high speeds around the countryside. [[spoiler: While her comeuppance - being transformed into a horse, having horseshoes nailed into her hands and feet, and transforming back into a human, ''with the horseshoes still on'' - is quite painful and freaky, we don't feel too bad for her when it happens.]]
** Addie Finch from "Such Things Happen"
* BalefulPolymorph: "A New Horse", Throwing a [[TransformationTrinket magic bridle]] on someone transforms them into a horse. Fortunately for them, removing it changes them back.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: "What Do You Come For?". A lonesome old woman wishes for some company. [[spoiler: She gets a living corpse that comes down the chimney and (most likely) kills her.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Since the story "What Do You Come For?" is only a page long, we don't get an explanation as to ''why'' the undead guy killed the old lady. Probably because he's undead [[AlwaysChaoticEvil and they're expected to do that]].
* BodyHorror: "The Red Spot". [[spoiler:To elaborate: an itchy spot turns out to have spiders pouring out of it. You're welcome.]]
* {{Bowdlerise}}: The new Brett Helquist illustrations are ''far'' tamer than Gammell's-- and less memorable because of it. [[http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2011/12/18/scary-stories-to-tell-in-the-dark-gammell-vs-helquist/ This blog article]] compares some of them.
* TheCakeIsALie: "The Drum"
* TheCallsAreComingFromInsideTheHouse: The Babysitter
* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler:"Bess".]]
* CrypticBackgroundReference: The creepy woman from "The Dream" saying that the house with the carpet shaped like trapdoors and the windows nailed shut is an evil place. We never learn why, and it appears to be part of a larger story that the protagonist is not meant to be part of. She leaves before we learn anything more.
* [[IncrediblyLamePun Darker]] [[DarkerAndEdgier And Edgier]]: Scary Stories 3.
* DeathByDespair: "Cold as Clay"
* DemBones: Skeletons make many appearances: "The Thing", "Aaron Kelly's Bones", "The Bad News", "Is Something Wrong", "What Do You Come For", whatever the hell that thing is in the sky in the illustration for "Oh Susannah" etc.
* DisproportionateRetribution: "Such Things Happen".
* DoomedNewClothes: The White Satin Evening Gown, although much more extreme than the trope normally calls for.
* DownerEnding: Quite a few stories.
* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: "The Red Spot". Well, it's really "Face Full Of Spider Wing Wong", but it still applies.
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: For a children's book, the stories delve into the gore field quite frequently, one key example being "Wonderful Sausage".
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8uK12XFyrQ The movie version]] really [[BloodierAndGorier piles on the gore]].
* GovernmentConspiracy: More like a local government conspiracy, but this is what happens in "Maybe You Will Remember..."
* GrotesqueGallery: "The Haunted House" and "The Dream". That is all.
** Every picture in the series counts.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: The ghost in "The Dream" may well be cringe-inducing to look at, but to be fair, she did save the girl in the story from some unknown gruesome fate, so...
** The truck driver in "High Beams" is a straight example.
* HeyItsThatVoice: The audiobooks are narrated by [[TheYearWithoutASantaClaus Heat Miser]]
* ImAHumanitarian: Is anyone a little creeped out by how much cannibalism there is in certain stories? Exhibit A: "Wonderful Sausage".
* JumpScare: In the film version of "Clinkety Clink" it SEEMS like that story would end with the old woman's ghost being unable to find her two silver dollars. But then... fade to black... two second pause... [[spoiler: "'''''YOU'VE GOT IT!'''''" (scream)]]
** It's invoked in the book version - it's meant to be read out loud, and requires the reader to do the same to the audience, complete with grabbing someone.
** Inverted in "The Attic". The reader has to scream as loud as they can at the end, and end the story there. At least someone in the audience will ask why they screamed - the reader then explains [[spoiler:you'd scream at the top of your lungs, too, [[MunDanger if you stepped on a nail.]]]]
* LighterAndSofter: The last story is always a lighter version of the first story. The second book's end portion had a comedic collection of the supernatural.
* MegaNeko: In "Wait 'till Martin comes", there are three black cats, one normal sized, another cat the size of a wolf, and still another the size of a tiger. [[spoiler: None of those cats are Martin, leading to the suspicion that "Martin" is the size of an elephant]]
* MindScrew: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfdz4kemwBM "A Man Who Lived in Leeds"]]. The film version does this as well, in a VERY messed up way.
** Mr Gammell somehow manages to pull off a few in the illustrations. If you dare, stare at "The White Satin Evening Gown", "The Black Dog", "The Ghost in the Mirror" and "The Trouble" for a good five minutes.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERLaA8qSE1Q&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL "The Church"]], both in the book and the film version. [[spoiler: Hands up, who expected sheep?]]
* MoodWhiplash: "Faster and Faster." It starts with two young boys having fun in the woods, and then the supernatural stuff rears its ugly head.
* NoEnding: The story about the severed hand in the closet. See fuller discussion in the NoEnding page.
** Not to mention "The Attic". The story ends with Rupert screaming [[spoiler: after stepping on a nail in his barefeet]] and we never find out what was making noise in the titular attic. [[WhatHappenedtotheMouse Also, he never found his dog, which went missing at the start.]]
* NothingIsScarier: What "The Voice" turns out to be, and "Footsteps" as well. "Sounds" might count, although it's subverted toward the end.
** "The Curse" might also count. We never do find out exactly what happened to the boys who went into the house.
* ParentalAbandonment: "The Drum" gives us one of the worst possible examples of this at the end.
** DisproportionateRetribution: Even after the mom gave the girls one more chance, she ''still'' abandoned them. Boy, that lady has trust issues.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: "Alligators" (with the added twist that [[spoiler: the titular 'gators are actually the protagonist's transformed husband and sons]]), and "Bess" (in which [[spoiler: the protagonist is fatally bitten by a snake.]])
* RiseOfZitboy: "The Red Spot" mostly consists of the protagonist complaining about the disgusting, itching, hurting and growing spider bite - which is basically a zit - on her cheek. However, it turns out to be ''[[BodyHorror much]]'' worse than just a zit...
* ScaryScarecrows: The eponymous "Harold".
* ShaggyDogStory: In "The Baby Sitter", when the girl learns that [[spoiler: the calls are coming from upstairs, she simply calls the police and leaves and the man is arrested.]] The end.
* ShownTheirWork: Most definitely. Each book ends with a comprehensive collection of sources, references, times, dates and locations.
* SwampsAreEvil: "The Dead Hand"
* TechnologyMarchesOn: The driver in "Is Something Wrong?" probably could have avoided that whole mess (especially the encounter with the monster) if he had a cell phone.
** Not to mention that in "Maybe You Will Remember...", the doctor's excuse that he "didn't have a telephone right now" wouldn't work in this day and age.
* TomatoInTheMirror: "Something Was Wrong"
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: "Aaron Kelly's Bones". Features a widow's husband rising from the grave because he doesn't feel dead enough to die. In whatever universe this story takes place in, the rising dead are apparently nothing special, with the characters more annoyed than anything that this corpse insists on living. How that dead man danced...
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler:"Alligators"]]
* {{Wendigo}}: Well, "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Wendigo]]", even though in the Sources section in the back, Alvin Scwartz makes it [[CultureChopSuey sound more like a Greek mythological Siren than an evil spirit of cannibalism]].
* TheWildHunt: "Faster and Faster".
* YouCantFightFate: "Bess" and "The Appointment".
** This trope is somewhat in effect in [[spoiler:"The Dream". After the eponymous nightmare, the girl in the story can't bring herself to visit the town she originally intended, so she visits an alternate village instead. Guess who she meets in this new town? That's right, that bloody pale woman.]]
* YoutubePoop: Is becoming an increasingly popular source; search for "[[TomServo3 Tom]]'s Terrifying Tales From the Toaster".
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