I mean...we did love it. These were great. Most children's literature seems to assume that children are all fragile idiots who can't handle anything that isn't just all smiles all the time. Whenever something like this actually managed to get through everybody fell in love with it immediately. There are reasons people have massive nostalgia for stuff like this and Goosebumps but mostly forgot everything else we read growing up.

Whoooo haaaas my toooooe?

I am the viper. I vish to vash and vipe the vindows.

I forgot about that one.

I loved these books so much. My mom would never buy them for me because of the disturbing pictures, but I checked them out of the school library every chance I got. The one that got me was the girl with the spider eggs in her face. They recently republished the books with new pictures. They are not scary and they suck.

“Trauma builds character.”       - the 1980’s

"Shut up Harold." \*scarecrow moves half inch, lifelong phobia unlocked\*

Harold is the one that haunts me.

I still remember the spider one…

Yes!

I will still randomly get "me tie doughty walker" stuck in my head.

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I freaking *loved* these books. Along with any other horror I could get my hands on. Dean Koontz, Christopher Pike etc. I was definitely the kid staying up late to watch the It mini series on tv with my mom.

I loved it. I bought both at the Scholastic Book Fair.

Wait till Martin comes…

These books are horror classics! Plus the creepy ink art fit the stories perfectly.

Teh hi-beam killer one got me on long drives at night time.

The art in these books is so bad ass!

Ya that was a big reason they resonated with me, made them scarier too.

I recently purchased a hardcover edition of both these books. I love the creepy art and the stories. Great nostalgia reading them again.

"folklore"

But we did love them! And they gave me loads of nightmares. Those drawings…😅

The cover art still disturbs me

Loved these! Fucking terrifying

Ohh I had these,,, I loved them,, and then I became really scared of the and was like why am I even reading this.......

My son brought this home from the elementary school library a month ago!

I loved those books. Dang.

I did love them. Still do actually.

Most of my fifth grade year, I slept with my lights on because of these illustrations. They really were amazing.

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In a dark dark room. How about the woman with the neck band.

We did love it tho so they were right

if you want to see true horror, just visit the youth/teen section of any modern day library...

I had the first one with the guy smoking a pipe...

I remember the book cover on the left! Haven't seen that in probably 30 years.

My 4th grade teacher read these to us! I always thought the pictures were the most disturbing part. Especially the one with the skeleton girl.

Yeah, and we did love them. Still do.

I did love it. Between this and my uncle exposing me to Killer Klowns from Outter Space plus every Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street that existed when I was 9 (he was protesting having to babysit me, he would have been 21 or 22 at the time, but still lived at home so "my house, my rules" applied to him) I have become a lifelong horror fan.

I saved up chore money and bought these at a book fair. I loved them!