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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark	comment	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 and known for being probably one of the most controversial series to hit American bookshelves. The volumes of the series are: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)The series is geared towards 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 may likely find them more cheesy than anything. However, the key factor cited for giving the books their impact (and much of their controversy) comes in the illustrations that accompany them.Using little more than black ink and water, Stephen Gammell brought Schwartz's stories to life with a dark, evocative art style, with his artwork considered by many as among the most disturbing imagery ever published in a book, let alone one for children. As a result of both this and the subject matter of the stories, the series was listed by the American Library Association as the single most challengednote Moral Guardians demanding they be pulled from library shelves book series of the 1990s, and the seventh most challenged of the 2000s. That being said, the series has collectively sold over seven million copies.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 A Series of Unfortunate Events), eliciting a mass 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.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 sufficient replacement.A film adaptation of the books, co-produced by Guillermo del Toro and faithfully adapting the infamous Gammell artwork for its monsters, was released in 2019.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: In "The Bride," the eponymous bride cleverly whispers to herself "They'll never find me there." Turns out she was right. "Bess" starts with horse raiser John Nicholas going to a fortune-teller who tells him that his favorite horse will be the reason behind his death. John is unconvinced and laughs the idea off. At the ending, said favorite horse has been put down and reduced to bone. John gets fatally bitten by a rattlesnake who had living inside the horse's skull. "The Slithery Dee, he came from the sea. He ate all the others, but he didn't eat-" cue the titular monster coming back to finish the job.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Some of the protagonists are this, knowing local folklore. A farmer remembers that his grandfather taught him how to fend off a witch, and thought it was a story. He follows his grandfather's instructions, and successfully kills the witch though feeling bad about her suffering. Played for Laughs in "Wait 'Til Martin Comes," when the old man who is accosted by monstrous cats eventually decides that he's not going to stick around to meet the titular character. "When Martin comes, you tell him I couldn't wait!"
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: The "Dead Man's Hand" story is all about medical students trying to play a scary prank on their apparently unshakeable colleague. They manage to reduce her into a nervous wreck instead; some versions even have the nurse strangled by the hand.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: In "Something Was Wrong," the protagonist finds that everyone downtown is terrified of him. He decides to call his wife to get help— and is told that she's at his funeral!
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: George from "Just Delicious" is stated to be a bully, and Mina worries that George will hurt her if he finds out that she's eaten the liver she cooked for him, so she cooks a human liver from a dead woman being displayed open-casket nearby. She ultimately escapes her situation by telling the ghost who owned the liver that George ate it, and the ghost offs him. The corpse from "Somebody Fell From Aloft" belonged to a big man that bullied McLaren a lot, so McLaren gets him back by murdering him. Years later, the corpse of the big man comes back and gets his revenge by hauling him overboard with him on a foggy day.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Martin in "Wait 'till Martin Comes". We never see him but it can be assumed he'll be far bigger than the last three cats, with the last one as big as a tiger.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: 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. But after Richard succeeds, he discovers that the window actually looks on nothing but a blank brick wall.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Samuel Blunt in "Wonderful Sausage" is ground up in his own sausage grinder. Or possibly even fed to his own hogs. Bob in "Faster and Faster" is shot to death with a ghost arrow. The titular character from "The Bride" accidentally locks herself in a trunk and suffocates or dies of starvation.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_1fb440a6	type	Voluntary Shapeshifting
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_1fb440a6	comment	Voluntary Shapeshifting: In "Alligators," a woman is convinced that her husband is a "were-alligator" who has the power to transform into a reptile every night. It gets worse when she has children and he immediately starts teaching them to swim, as she suspects that he's trying to turn everyone in the house into alligators, too. She eventually skips town, but the locals report seeing a giant gator and two smaller ones swimming around the river... In "The Cat's Paw," it's revealed that a local woman is actually a were-panther who has been attacking local farms. One farmer manages to shoot off one the panther's paws, which serves as a Red Right Hand when it turns back into a human foot as soon as it leaves her body. A posse hunts down the woman, who is "spittin' and yowlin' just like a cat" as she's led away.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_225d8ff9	comment	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...
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: A downplayed example in "Such Things Happen." Bill Nelson accidentally kills Addie Fitch's cat, and he apologizes by immediately offering to purchase her a new one. But Addie is offended by the implication, as she raised her furry friend from a kitten, and simply buying a different cat can't make up for their bond.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_25b7257f	comment	In "The Cat's Paw," it's revealed that a local woman is actually a were-panther who has been attacking local farms. One farmer manages to shoot off one the panther's paws, which serves as a Red Right Hand when it turns back into a human foot as soon as it leaves her body. A posse hunts down the woman, who is "spittin' and yowlin' just like a cat" as she's led away.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: "The Drum" gives us one of the worst possible examples of this at the end. When her daughters misbehave, the nameless mother threatens that if they go too far, she will leave them with her baby son Arthur and a new mother will take care of them. They know she's not bluffing, but the promised drum is much too tempting. Sure enough, things go too far, and the mother vanishes.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_29c480a3	type	Good News, Bad News
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_29c480a3	comment	Good News, Bad News: In "The Bad News," two best friends who love baseball make a pact that the first person to die will return to inform the other if there is baseball in Heaven. Sure enough, one of them dies and comes back shortly thereafter. The good news is that they do have baseball in heaven. The bad news? The other friend is scheduled to pitch tomorrow.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_2c45b3bb	type	Mundane Ghost Story
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_2c45b3bb	comment	Mundane Ghost Story: "The Girl Who Stood on a Grave", "High Beams", "The Babysitter", "No Thanks", "The Cat in a Shopping Bag", "The Man in the Middle", "Sam's New Pet", "Wonderful Sausage", "The Red Spot", "Maybe You Will Remember", "Oh, Susannah!", "The Bride", "Rings on Her Fingers" and "The Hook". Possibly "The White Wolf", "The Bed By the Window", "Footsteps", and "Alligators".
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_2da9bb9b	type	Psychopomp
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_2da9bb9b	comment	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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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_2f329e3c	comment	Tomato in the Mirror: In "Something Was Wrong," John Sullivan finds himself downtown with a case of Laser-Guided Amnesia. He tries to approach various passerby, but they all panic and hide at the sight of him. John tries to call his wife—only to be told that she's at a funeral, because her husband was killed in an accident downtown yesterday.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: A more malicious interpretation of "The Dream". Lucy has a dream about a pale woman in a strange room who tells her to run away because it's an evil place, and Lucy takes this as a sign not to move to the village she was planning to move to. When she finds another village, Lucy happens to arrive at the very place she saw in the dream, coming face-to-face with the woman from the dream as well. Fortunately for her, the woman's message impressed upon her and she leaves, but the warning may have actually been to engineer her arrival.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_30d71ee	type	Flaying Alive
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_30d71ee	comment	Flaying Alive: Happens to Thomas in "Harold". Harold stretched Thomas's skin to dry on the roof and the other man runs away in fear.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_313e9485	type	Hero with Bad Publicity
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_313e9485	comment	Hero with Bad Publicity: 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. Once he explains the situation —there was a man in the girl's backseat area and waiting for an opportunity to attack her— the police and the girl apologize for the misunderstanding after arresting the real criminal.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_334b7f3a	type	Cryptic Background Reference
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_334b7f3a	comment	Cryptic Background Reference: 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.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_337ef720	type	Ghostly Animals
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_337ef720	comment	Ghostly Animals: Quite a few examples show up in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, almost one for each volume. Some noteworthy examples include "The White Wolf" (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark), "The Little Black Dog" (More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark), and "The Black Dog" (Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones).
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: The gypsy girl in "The Drum" tricks the girls into tormenting their mother and baby brother in exchange for the drum, and by the end, tells them it was all a joke and that she was never going to give up her drum. Afterwards, their mother abandons them and leaves them to live with their new mother.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_3c7022ce	type	Mundane Solution
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_3c7022ce	comment	Mundane Solution: Thomas considers setting Harold on fire after the scarecrow starts grunting. Alfred considers it too rash an idea.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: In "The Bad News", both protagonists die, but they end up playing baseball in Heaven. One even teases the other that he better have improved his pitching game.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: "The Bed By the Window". Did the window disappear as punishment for Richard murdering George? Was there ever a window at all? Did George actually exist? In the original story's ending, George is revealed to be blind and only made up all the things he saw outside the window to cheer up Richard. "Alligators" has the protagonist being placed in a mental hospital after claiming her husband turned himself and her sons into alligators before trying to change her as well. The story ends with it unclear whether her family drowned and she made up the story to cope or if her husband actually did what she claimed. However, the ending also makes it clear that the father and sons are still around since local fishermen claim they saw three alligators swimming in the river at night despite what other people say to the contrary.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: The thing in "The Big Toe" stalks the boy who took it's toe, and is strongly implied to have killed him. Samuel Blunt in "Wonderful Sausage" chops up several people to make his eponymous sausage, including several neighbourhood children. His last would-be victim is a chubby boy who thankfully escapes and exposes his secret. The drum in "Faster and Faster" summons a spectral hunting party when beat, who chases two boys and shoots one dead with a ghostly arrow. "The Dead Hand" has a hot-headed young boy journey into a swamp after dark to prove there's no monsters living there. Whatever he encounters rips off his hand and keeps him in the swamp for weeks. By the time they find him, the poor kid's mind has been broken.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: The nursing school in "The Dead Man's Hand." Apparently at this school, being nice and friendly and not having bad habits is a bad thing.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_4e3d253b	comment	In "The Bride," the eponymous bride cleverly whispers to herself "They'll never find me there." Turns out she was right.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_4fb23aa8	type	I Have This Friend
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_4fb23aa8	comment	I Have This Friend: 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(?) for her death.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: "The Red Spot". An itchy spot turns out to have spiders pouring out of it. At the end of "The Wendigo", after DÃ©Fago's encounter with the titular creature, his face is turned to ash. In "The Thing", two young men encounter a monstrous corpse-like apparition that chases them for a while before disappearing. 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 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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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: "Such Things Happen". As a poster on YouTube put it, "Accidentally running over someone's cat is one thing. It's another thing entirely to kill a defenseless dog out of spite."
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Samuel Blunt from "Wonderful Sausage" is a described as fat and jolly, yet he grinds people, kittens, and puppies into his sausage grinder.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_537dd8fe	comment	The "Horrible Thing" from Is Something Wrong? Despite its hideous, abomination-like appearance, it appears to be rather polite, and it is left unknown what, if anything, it does to the main character.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_5619ea34	type	Blowing a Raspberry
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_5619ea34	comment	There's also "Thup-p-p-p-p-p!", one of the "funny" stories, which features a young girl who is stalked by an eyeless ghost that appears in her room and disappears whenever her parents appear. The story ends with the ghost simply Blowing a Raspberry at the girl, but the illustration still falls into Surreal Horror territory, depicting the ghost as a bizarre entity almost resembling melting wax.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_561da1c8	type	Mistaken for Dog
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_561da1c8	comment	Mistaken for Dog: In "Sam's New Pet", Sam's parents adopt what they believe to be an exotic breed of dog called a Mexican Hairless. Turns out it's a sewer rat. With rabies.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_575fd5e2	comment	The haunt in "The Haunted House", despite being a benevolent entity who just wants her killer brought to justice, is portrayed in the illustration with an absolutely horrific Nightmare Face, with empty rotting eye sockets, no nose, and a lipless mouth that weakly hangs open. This illustration is the most infamous in the series for a reason.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_57b80b45	comment	The undead mass in "One Sunday Morning" are more malevolent examples, being hateful towards the living.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: George Flint from "Just Delicious" is heavily implied to be abusive towards his wife, Mina. He's flat out stated to be "a bully."
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: A variation occurs in "Maybe You Will Remember...", wherein the conspiracy is based on local government rather than a large-scale one. When Rosemary arrives at a hotel in Paris with her ill mother, the hotelier sends her to get some medicine from a doctor, but the trip seems to take exceedingly long, and by the time Rosemary gets back, her mother is gone and the entire staff is saying she originally arrived alone. It turns out the older woman died of a highly contagious plague, and the hotelier, fearing that there would be mass panic in Paris if word got out, engineered a complicated scheme to make it seem like Rosemary's mother was never there in the first place, allowing the local government to downplay the threat.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_5a963d1c	type	False Reassurance
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_5a963d1c	comment	False Reassurance: In "The Man in the Middle," one of the gangsters tells Jim, the eponymous man in the middle, that "You'll be fine." It turns out that Jim has a deadly bullet wound in his head.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_5b01a021	type	The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_5b01a021	comment	The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House: "The Babysitter". Unlike in most cases, the babysitter calls the cops ahead of time and they arrest a very-alive man.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_5be7bd04	type	Raised by Wolves
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_5be7bd04	comment	Raised by Wolves: "The Wolf Girl", obviously.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_5f611b7e	type	Good All Along
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_5f611b7e	comment	Good All Along: The trucker in "High Beams". He wasn't trying to hurt the girl, he was following her to keep the psycho in the backseat from killing her. Him turning on his high beams was to catch him off guard whenever he rose up to kill her.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_603b77ec	type	Savage Wolves
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_603b77ec	comment	Savage Wolves: "The White Wolf" has plenty of wolves attacking people's livestock, and then the titular white wolf strikes back harder once all the other wolves are out of the way.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_62ac3f93	type	Sinister Subway
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_62ac3f93	comment	Sinister Subway: "The Man in the Middle" takes place in one.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_63baeeb2	type	Lightning Reveal
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_63baeeb2	comment	Lightning Reveal: Three fishermen shelter in an abandoned house in Mobile, Alabama, only to hear someone being murdered on the upstairs floor. The murderer gets revealed by a flash of lightning, showing a grisly grin. At this, the three fishermen immediately get out of the house and flee into the stormy night.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_647ce68	type	Family-Unfriendly Violence
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_647ce68	comment	Family-Unfriendly Violence: For a children's book, the stories delve into the gore field quite frequently, one key example being "Wonderful Sausage". The ending of "Harold" is also very gruesome, even if we just see the results of it. But what we see...
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_67b3bd44	type	Mundanger
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_67b3bd44	comment	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 you'd scream at the top of your lungs, too, if you stepped on a nail.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_6926506	type	Revenant Zombie
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_6926506	comment	Revenant Zombie: 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, 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.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_697c3646	type	Ghastly Ghost
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_697c3646	comment	Ghastly Ghost: A given, as the series deals with the supernatural and ghosts make an appearance. The haunt in "The Haunted House", despite being a benevolent entity who just wants her killer brought to justice, is portrayed in the illustration with an absolutely horrific Nightmare Face, with empty rotting eye sockets, no nose, and a lipless mouth that weakly hangs open. This illustration is the most infamous in the series for a reason. There's also "Thup-p-p-p-p-p!", one of the "funny" stories, which features a young girl who is stalked by an eyeless ghost that appears in her room and disappears whenever her parents appear. The story ends with the ghost simply Blowing a Raspberry at the girl, but the illustration still falls into Surreal Horror territory, depicting the ghost as a bizarre entity almost resembling melting wax.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_6b5a92dc	type	Uncanny Valley
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_6b5a92dc	comment	Uncanny Valley: The illustrations never leave it. Even relatively innocuous ones like "The Babysitter" are extremely unnerving. Even when something perfectly normal is drawn, it still manages to look really creepy just by now unnatural it looks.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_7131e4c9	type	Rodents of Unusual Size
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_7131e4c9	comment	Rodents of Unusual Size: "Sam's New Pet". Apparently it was the size of a dog.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_7142b38a	type	The Grim Reaper
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_7142b38a	comment	In "The Appointment," a young man is walking through town when he spots The Grim Reaper, who beckons to him. He runs home and drives to a nearby big city, thinking that Death will never find him there. The young man's grandfather then goes to speak to Death himself, who politely apologizes for his actions. He was just surprised to see the man in town, since he has an appointment with him that afternoon in the city...
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: Several of the stories use this for spooky effect. In "Bess," a fortune teller warns a farmer that the titular horse—his favorite—will cause his death. Since Bess is a gentle mare, he highly doubts it, although he feels some relief when she passes away. As he goes out to pay his last respects to her skeleton, a snake that made a nest in her skull leaps out and fatally bites him. In "The Appointment," a young man is walking through town when he spots The Grim Reaper, who beckons to him. He runs home and drives to a nearby big city, thinking that Death will never find him there. The young man's grandfather then goes to speak to Death himself, who politely apologizes for his actions. He was just surprised to see the man in town, since he has an appointment with him that afternoon in the city... This trope is somewhat in effect in "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.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: A horrific example occurs in "Maybe You Will Remember." Rosemary reaches a Paris hotel with her mother, who becomes sick. A doctor sends her across town for some medicine, but she gets the feeling that she's being deliberately delayed for unknown reasons. When she finally returns to the hotel, her mother is gone, the room she was staying in has been completely redecorated, and everyone insists that she was originally traveling alone. Poor Rosemary feels like she's going out of her mind, but no one will confirm the truth. It turns out that her mother had somehow contracted a deadly plague, and the hotel, fearing the damage to their reputation, pulled an elaborate scheme to make it seem like she was never there.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: In "Such Things Happen," Bill Nelson suffers from a string of bad luck, but he refuses to believe that Addie Fitch is the culprit and won't perform the witch-killing ritual that his grandfather taught him. But when Bill's beloved, perfectly healthy dog drops dead without warning, he gets angry enough to try the spell.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_7301ae04	comment	Samuel Blunt in "Wonderful Sausage". A revolting butcher and Serial Killer who murders pets, men, women, and children alike and turns them into sausage meat, who ends up killed by an angry mob when he's caught chasing a boy from his shop with a knife. Needless to say, nobody should be sad when he earned such a gruesome death.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The Brett Helquist drawn cover of More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark features an illustration of "A New Horse", which doesn't show up in that book; it's in the first one.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs in "Wait 'Til Martin Comes," when the old man who is accosted by monstrous cats eventually decides that he's not going to stick around to meet the titular character. "When Martin comes, you tell him I couldn't wait!"
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_7e577db	type	Slashed Throat
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_7e577db	comment	Slashed Throat: One of Peter's dogs in "The Black Dog" gets killed by the titular hound tearing its throat open. Bill Williams in "The White Wolf" is found slumped against a tree, dead, with his throat torn out by the titular wolf.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_8409a385	comment	"The Dream," natch.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_853b7948	type	Ambiguously Evil
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_853b7948	comment	Ambiguously Evil: The twins' new mother with the glass eyes and wooden tail in "The Drum" (an adaptation of Lucy Crawford's "The New Mother") is never explicitly stated to be evil, but considering the tone of the story, it's clear she's not exactly benevolent. Addie Fitch in "Such Things Happen". While it's likely true that she's a witch who tried to ruin the protagonist's life with her spells, she only did because he accidentally killed her cat, the only friend she had in the world. The ghost in "Hello, Kate!" never does anything to the protagonist except glare at him menacingly. The cats in "Wait 'till Martin Comes." Despite being abnormally large, they don't do anything to the man, because they're waiting for their friend Martin. What they're planning to do is uncertain, but the man isn't willing to find out. The "Horrible Thing" from Is Something Wrong? Despite its hideous, abomination-like appearance, it appears to be rather polite, and it is left unknown what, if anything, it does to the main character.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_863fa679	comment	"The Attic". The story ends with Rupert screaming after stepping on a nail in his barefeet and we never find out what was making noise in the titular attic. Also, he never found his dog, which went missing at the start.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The giant flying multi-limbed "horrible thing" from Is Something Wrong? could be described as such, but he might be a friendlier one. Several of the monsters that appear in the illustrations, like Oh Susannah and The Dead Hand are indescribably surreal and never actually appear in their respective stories.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_89b8822f	comment	In "The Dead Hand," Tom tells his friends and fellow villagers that if he gets scared or runs away during their dare, he'll never make fun of them again. 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 turned him into a gibbering wreck.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_8c00901a	type	Creepy Good
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_8c00901a	comment	Creepy Good: The woman from "The Haunted House" is the most notoriously terrifying illustrations, but all she wants is for her husband to face justice for killing her. Same goes for the pale woman in "The Dream". She appears in the protagonist's dream in order to warn her about the "evil place" she's staying at, and tells her to leave. When the protagonist sees her for real at the new apartment she goes to, she runs away, presumably to safety due to the warning from the dream.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Samuel Blunt in "Wonderful Sausage" murders pets to grind up into meat. Needless to say, things don't end well for him.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_8f612013	comment	Token Good Teammate: In "One Sunday Morning," the majority of the undead in the town church have come back wrong and hate the living with a passion. However, the recently-deceased Josephine, who was a friend of main character Ida, tells her to get out of the building before the service is finished. The warning buys Ida enough time to escape before the zombies can capture her.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_952f8f26	type	Deadly Prank
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_952f8f26	comment	Deadly Prank: A variation in "The Dead Man's Hand." Nursing student Kate irritates her schoolmates with her positivity and skill, so they decide to play a cruel trick by tying a corpse's hand to the drawstring of her room's light. When they don't hear her scream, they go to investigate and find that she's gone insane from the horror. The story notes indicate that in some versions, Kate is found strangled with the hand clutching around her throat.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Samuel Blunt of Wonderful Sausage is described as a "fat and jolly butcher". Said "fat and jolly butcher" kills people and grinds them into sausage to serve to his customers.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: "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 not sticking around to find out).
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_99699561	type	Questioning Title?
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_99699561	comment	Questioning Title?: "What Do You Come For?", "May I Carry Your Basket?", and "Is Something Wrong?".
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_9a2aee13	type	Heroic Bystander
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_9a2aee13	comment	Heroic Bystander: One truck driver sees a man sneaking into a girl's car, in the backseat. He proceeds to follow her and keeps his lights on so the man can't attack her. When the police come and demand and investigation, he points out the would-be assailant.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_9b045a08	type	Wendigo
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_9b045a08	comment	Wendigo: Well, "The Wendigo", even though in the Sources section in the back, Alvin Schwartz makes it 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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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: In "The Window", the vampire is a hideous creature with Creepy Long Fingers that can break into houses without an invitation, and sleeps in a burial vault.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: The ghost in "The Haunted House" has a pair of empty eye sockets that seem to look through the viewer.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: "Faster and Faster." It starts with two young boys having fun in the woods, and then the supernatural stuff rears its ugly head. 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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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_a4cd4fc6	type	Cruel Twist Ending
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_a4cd4fc6	comment	Cruel Twist Ending: "Bess". Specifically, the hero of the story is told by a fortune teller that his favorite horse â€” the titular Bess â€” will kill him. By the time she dies, he thinks he's in the clear. Then he visits her skeleton, where a snake has nested itself and fatally bites him.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Many stories have characters meet a grisly end because they desecrated or stole from the dead.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: In "The Haunted House," the ghost tells the preacher that he must complete three tasks to lay her spirit to rest: dig up her corpse and give it a proper burial, use her pinky finger bone to expose the man who killed her, and donate her money, which she hid in the house, to the poor. The preacher follows through and the ghost is finally able to move on. In "Such Things Happen," Addie Fitch gradually sickens and dies over three days, and requests a cup of sugar (which would break Bill Nelson's power over her) three times, each more desperate than the last.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: "The Bride", in which the titular bride accidentally traps herself in a trunk and dies inside.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_aa561110	type	In the Dreaming Stage of Grief
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_aa561110	comment	In the Dreaming Stage of Grief: In "Oh, Susannah!", Susannah gets fed up with what sounds like her roommate Jane humming at night, and goes over to her bed to remove her covers. She's shocked to find Jane's body laying there without a head. Susannah tries to convince herself that this is all just a bad dream, and that everything will be alright when she wakes up. The story ends there, implying that this was not in fact a dream.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_aa92a5d2	type	Mega Neko
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_aa92a5d2	comment	Mega Neko: In "Wait 'till Martin Comes", there are three black cats: one normal sized, one the size of a wolf, and one the size of a tiger. None of the three are Martin, leading to the conclusion that Martin will be far bigger than the other cats.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_abfcd50d	type	Breaking and Bloodsucking
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_abfcd50d	comment	Breaking and Bloodsucking: 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. 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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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Addie Fitch in "Such Things Happen." Even though she (may have) tried to ruin the protagonist's life with spells, she was still at heart a lonely and grieving old woman who dearly loved her cat. The amount of agony she's put through is so much even the farmer starts to feel sorry for her.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_ac36578e	type	Or Was It a Dream?
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_ac36578e	comment	Or Was It a Dream?: In "One Sunday Morning," Ida successfully escapes the living dead in the church, but she loses her coat and hat as she runs. When she gets home, she wonders if the whole adventure was just a dream—but later that day, her friends drop off the coat and hat, which were found in the cemetery, "torn to shreds."
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In "Rings On Her Fingers," a young woman is in a coma for weeks, and the doctor eventually declares her dead. She's buried wearing valuable jewelry, and a grave robber sneaks into the cemetery to steal it from her. When he can't pry off her rings, he tries cutting off her fingers instead—but the shock and pain instead revive the young woman, who wakes up! She immediately brushes herself off and goes home, while the terrified robber, thinking she's a zombie, tries to flee and ends up falling onto his own knife by mistake.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: The main character in "Room for One More" has a dream about a hearse filled with people appearing outside of the house where he's staying. The driver calls out the title line, then moves on. The next day, the dream turns out to be prescient: the man's about to step on a crowded elevator when a passenger—with the same face as the driver—turns and says "There is room for one more." The man wisely declines, and the elevator crashes, killing everyone on board. "The Dream," natch.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: "What Do You Come For?". A lonesome old woman wishes for some company. She gets a living corpse that comes down the chimney piece by piece and (most likely) kills her.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_b1c7f430	type	Sea Monster
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_b1c7f430	comment	Sea Monster: The Slithery Dee.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_b62ea95	type	Doomed New Clothes
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_b62ea95	comment	Doomed New Clothes: Inverted with "The White Satin Evening Gown.â€� The dress dooms whoever wears it but the dress itself remains unharmed.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_b73ef612	type	Hide-and-Seek Horror
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_b73ef612	comment	Hide-and-Seek Horror: 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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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation: "A New Horse", throwing a magic bridle on someone transforms them into a horse. Fortunately for them, removing it changes them back.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_bb30b9e9	type	Danger Takes a Backseat
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_bb30b9e9	comment	Danger Takes a Backseat: "High Beams." It turns out that the actual killer has been hiding in the backseat of the woman's car the entire time.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: "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. Stare at "The White Satin Evening Gown", "The Black Dog", "The Ghost in the Mirror" and "The Trouble", and especially "Oh Susannah" for a good five minutes. "The Church", both in the book and the film version. Hands up, who expected sheep?
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: 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... "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 you'd scream at the top of your lungs, too, if you stepped on a nail. Other stories involving jump scares that the reader is supposed to inflict on listeners include "The Walk," "A Man Who Lived in Leeds," and "The Voice."
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Two of the funny stories in Volume III, "Is Something Wrong?" and "T-H-U-U-U-U-P!", have two of the most terrifying pictures in the series. In "The Dead Hand," Tom tells his friends and fellow villagers that if he gets scared or runs away during their dare, he'll never make fun of them again. 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 turned him into a gibbering wreck.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_c3f6e68	type	Dem Bones
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_c3f6e68	comment	Dem Bones: 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.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_c54522c3	type	Ghost Pirate
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_c54522c3	comment	Ghost Pirate: A Ghost Ship 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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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_c92bd7ed	type	Spiders Are Scary
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_c92bd7ed	comment	Spiders Are Scary: "The Red Spot," which features a young girl who is bitten on the cheek by a spider. The resulting mark—the titular red spot—seems to be just an allergic reaction...until the ending, where it's revealed that the supposed pimple was actually an egg sac. Gammell's illustration for the story features the girl as the baby spiders begin crawling all over her face.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: "Somebody Fell From Aloft" has a body falling, and McLaren wants it thrown overboard. But when he does the job himself, the body suddenly grabs him and pulls him overboard with it. The body turns out to have been a big man McLaren had murdered because the former had bullied him back when he was alive.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_cb70651c	comment	Possibly "The White Wolf", "The Bed By the Window", "Footsteps", and "Alligators".
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: 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. In "The Dream" we never find out the identity of the mysterious woman or why the place is supposedly evil. In "The Trouble," we never find out why Tom may have developed telekinetic powers and why they stopped a month later. In "Me Tie Dough-ty Walker" we never really find out what happened after the head turns to see the boy. In "The Black Dog" we never find out what the dog is, or why it appeared in the man's house.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: The hook of "Wait 'Til Martin Comes." An old man takes shelter in an abandoned cabin and meets a normal-sized black cat. As the tale progresses, two more black cats appear, each bigger than the last—the second is the size of a wolf and the third the size of a tiger. Given that all of the cats are waiting for the titular character, it's implied that they would just keep getting larger and larger, with Martin as the biggest of all—but the old man, in a surprising case of Genre Savvy, decides to cut and run before anything else happens.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: The last story is always a lighter version of the first story. All three books' end portions have a comedic collection of the supernatural. The version of "The Babysitter" has the intruder caught by the police before he can do any harm to the sitter or the kids.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_cf48c17	type	Nightmare Face
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_cf48c17	comment	Nightmare Face: Oh yeah. Made even worse by the Nightmare Fuel-rific illustrating style depicting them. The most iconic example of this is the woman's face in "The Haunted House".
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_d03fc3f1	type	Good Shepherd
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_d03fc3f1	comment	Good Shepherd: The preacher in "The Haunted House" enters the titular building when he hears rumors of a restless spirit inside. Throughout the night, he feels a ghostly presence getting closer and closer, but he remains calm and prays for guidance, invoking the name of God and the Holy Trinity to protect himself. This pacifies the ghost enough for her to manifest in front of him and explain how he can lay her spirit to rest. He does as she says, which also qualifies him as a Badass Preacher, considering that he has to expose a murderer to do it.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_d2102da0	type	Bad People Abuse Animals
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_d2102da0	comment	The Witch from "A New Horse" is a more straightforward example, where she curses people to transform into horses with a magical bridle, and rides them into the night at breakneck speed, exhausting them.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: In "A New Horse" the witch's method of turning men into horses backfires gruesomely. Though never shown or stated, the ending to "Wonderful Sausage" heavily implies that vengeful townsfolk grind up Samuel Blunt after discovering the secret behind how the title objects were being made. The grave robber in "Rings on Her Fingers" dies by falling on his own knife after trying to steal the rings off a corpse that isn't as dead as he thinks.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_d5f518d3	type	The Dead Can Dance
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_d5f518d3	comment	The Dead Can Dance: In "Aaron Kelly's Bones," the titular character is reduced to a rotting skeleton after he decides he doesn't feel like being dead. A fiddler who's trying to court his widow gets annoyed at the intrusion and absentmindedly starts playing one night. Aaron can't resist the music and starts dancing like mad, but the force of his moves sends his bones flying, and the widow scrambles them in his coffin to make sure that he can't come back.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_d6b5863	type	Driven to Madness
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_d6b5863	comment	Driven to Madness: 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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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: "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... Also 'The Appointment', where the Grim Reaper just kind of... hangs around the town and people seem more annoyed by him than anything else.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Played for Laughs in "Wait 'Til Martin Comes." After the third cat—this one as big as a tiger—appears, the man in the story decides that while it and the other cats are free to stick around for Martin, he's going to leave now: "When Martin comes, you tell him that I couldn't wait!"
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_dbde0b49	type	Transformation Trinket
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_dbde0b49	comment	Transformation Trinket: The witch's magic bridle in "A New Horse" transforms anyone who puts it on into one.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_dd3d1f69	type	Wicked Witch
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_dd3d1f69	comment	Wicked Witch: Addie Fitch in "Such Things Happen," although it's deliberately left ambiguous as to whether or not she's a real witch or simply a crone. The fact that she's apparently susceptible to a folklore-based method of witch hunting tilts the evidence toward the former. The Witch from "A New Horse" is a more straightforward example, where she curses people to transform into horses with a magical bridle, and rides them into the night at breakneck speed, exhausting them.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_df237522	type	Hellhound
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_df237522	comment	Hellhound: The titular canine in "The Black Dog" haunts a man's house, running down the stairs and disappearing. It gets more intense once it kills one of the man's dogs.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_e0aed924	comment	No Antagonist: Used to horrific effect in certain stories ("Bess", "Something Was Wrong", "The Red Spot", "The Bride", "The Girl Who Stood On A Grave"), about tragic and fatal accidents befalling innocent people. Other times it occurs when the ghost or "villain" isn't malevolent.("Aaron Kelly's Bones", "Cold As Clay", "The Wreck," "The Bad News," "The Viper," "The Bus Stop","Is Something Wrong?") Besides these, there's: "Sam's New Pet." Some clueless tourists bring home a rabid(but non-malicious)"sewer rat" they mistake for a hairless dog. "The Wolf Girl." An account of a stolen baby girl raised by a pack of wolves who comes into conflict with the people trying to take her back into human society. "The Trouble." The strange events are caused by a teenager's latent and disruptive psychic powers, which he's completely unaware of.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_e0c470a1	type	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_e0c470a1	comment	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: What makes the illustration for "The Haunted House" so terrifying, as pointed out here.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: The titular character in "Harold" qualifies immensely. He's originally just a scarecrow that two farmers make to relieve their boredom, named after a rival they both hate. The men start taking out their anger on Harold with increasing violence, which backfires when he gradually comes to life. By the story's end, the scarecrow is fully sentient and brutally murders one of the farmers as payback for all of his cruelty.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_e24d2d5c	type	Reptiles Are Abhorrent
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_e24d2d5c	comment	Reptiles Are Abhorrent: "Alligators" (with the added twist that the titular 'gators are actually the protagonist's transformed husband and sons), and "Bess" (in which the protagonist is fatally bitten by a rattlesnake.)
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_e3cee2e7	type	Empathic Environment
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: "Clinkity-Clink." As usually happens in these kinds of stories, a fearsome storm rolls in as the ghost of the dead woman goes looking for her stolen money.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Daisy in "Rings on Her Fingers" is buried alive after being mistaken for dead, but luckily, a grave robber decides to dig up her grave soon after she wakes up. Things don't end well for the guy.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_e47e0eb	type	Scary Scarecrows
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_e47e0eb	comment	Scary Scarecrows: The eponymous "Harold", also provides the page image.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: "Bess" is based off the Primary Chronicle's account of the death of the medieval Varangian ruler, Oleg of Novgorod.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: The story and cast keep calling Harold a doll instead of a scarecrow. This may be due to its folkloric inspiration, Sennentuntschi, being a doll. She's sometimes constructed like a scarecrow, but meant for company, not for keeping crows at bay.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_e6c8cd60	type	Fed to Pigs
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_e6c8cd60	comment	Fed to Pigs: At the end of "Wonderful Sausage", it ends up being unknown if George was killed by this trope, or by being fed into the very same sausage grinder that he used to grind up his human victims.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: "The Dead Man's Hand", where some medical students tie a cadaver hand to a light pull to prank another student. All we get for an ending is her gibbering in the closet under the hand. "The prank had worked. But nobody was laughing." "The Attic". The story ends with Rupert screaming after stepping on a nail in his barefeet and we never find out what was making noise in the titular attic. Also, he never found his dog, which went missing at the start. "Wait 'till Martin Comes" ends with the protagonist fleeing the house before the titular character gets there, meaning we never find out who Martin was or what the cats were going to do when he finally arrived. "The Walk" ends with a scream, but since the man and the uncle were scared of the other, its not specified who screamed or why. "Oh, Susannah!" ends with the main character finding her roommate beheaded, and that's it. No resolution, no confrontation with a killer, just her hoping it is all a bad dream.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_eabb8130	type	Swamps Are Evil
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_eabb8130	comment	Swamps Are Evil: "The Dead Hand" takes place in the bayous of the southern United States. The locals know that mysterious horrors lurk in the swamps, but one man, a Troll, likes to mock their superstitions and brags that he could easily navigate the bog. And oh, how wrong he is.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: The husband in "Just Delicious" and the gypsy girl in "The Drum", who knowingly ruins two young girl's life by forcing their mother to abandon them.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_f03efcdb	type	Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_f03efcdb	comment	Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong: "The Red Spot". Well, it's really "Face Full Of Spider Wing Wong", but it still applies.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_f2a8ac6e	type	The Secret of Long Pork Pies
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_f2a8ac6e	comment	The Secret of Long Pork Pies: "Wonderful Sausage" has an evil butcher named Samuel Blunt kill people and pets, using their remains to make a special sausage that he sells to unknowing customers.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_f3da74ff	type	Creepy Crows
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_f3da74ff	comment	Creepy Crows: All three of the Brett Helquist covers have a crow on them.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_f4fe270	type	Villainous Glutton
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_f4fe270	comment	Villainous Glutton: George Flint, from "Just Delicious," is described as "a cruel man who loves to eat." He closes his shop every day for two hours just to feast on a massive lunch that he forces his wife Mina to cook for him.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_fb7bc4a8	type	Never Trust a Title
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_fb7bc4a8	comment	Never Trust a Title: In "Wait 'till Martin Comes", the titular Martin never actually shows up.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_fecb1e3a	type	Hear Me the Money
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_fecb1e3a	comment	Hear Me the Money: From the story "Clinkity-Clink":
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_ff6ae1f6	type	Evil-Detecting Dog
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: "The Black Dog" has Peter bringing his two watchdogs into the house after seeing the titular black dog. The first time he brings them in, they act as if they were the only dogs in the house, but the second time he brings them in, things get hairy. When they settle into Peter's bedroom, they suddenly start barking and snarling at the invisible black dog. The black dog ends up killing one of the dogs while the other cowers in fear.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: George actually gets one in "Just Delicious!". It's too bad that it comes at an inopportune moment.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: 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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