Here’s an excerpt from the ending of "Harold," which long occupied a special place in my nightmares: But no one ever dreamed that Blunt the butcher had anything to do with it."īut for me, none of those stories could hold a candle to "Harold"-a weird little tale about a couple of yokels who beat up a scarecrow they call Harold until it come to life and strikes back at them. "One by one, the children in the neighborhood began to disappear.Out poured a swarm of tiny spiders from the eggs their mother had laid in her cheek." "Suddenly, a bloody head fell out of the chimney.".Here are some sentences from a few of them: Schwartz ends the story with a call-to-action for the person reading it out loud: As you speak the climactic line-"TO CHOMP ON YOUR BONES," for those keeping track at home-he advises you to "pounce on one of your friends." Because "CHOMP ON YOUR BONES" isn’t scary enough.Īnd that's just the first story! In total, the three Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books contain 82 stories. And then the toe's owner comes looking for it. He brings it home, and his parents cut it into pieces, and everybody eats it for dinner. You move on to the first story, which is about a boy who finds a human toe growing in his garden. IT'S TOO SCARY FOR YOU."īut you don't close the book. "Aaaaaaaaaaah!" indeed! Who the hell is that? Why is he screaming? Who, or what, ripped a chunk of flesh out of his arm? You know how the entrance to Hell carries the inscription "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" at the beginning of the Divine Comedy? That's this dude, waving his arms and saying "CLOSE THIS BOOK, KID.
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