Post by Belinni on Oct 30, 2014 18:51:48 GMT
Halloween is just a day away and to celebrate here, I'd like to ask you all to write about a story or two that that gave a chilly feeling to your toesies! It can be a short story, it could be a long story, the only thing that matters is that it scared you!
Back when I was a wee little babbi, I would spend a lot of time with my family at the library in town, specifically the kid's reading area. However, I was never interested in stories like Animorphs or picture books, I enjoyed being afraid or disturbed, or even the simple feeling of not understanding a situation but knowing everything will be clear soon enough. I spent days reading R.L. Stein books, and a few Stephen King stories like The Cell and Trucks (otherwise known as Maximum Overdrive), but while they always held my attention, they were always too drawn out for my taste, heck, sometimes they didn't even have a proper ending!
Then I came across some books called Dare to be Scared and Double-Dare to be Scared. The titles were a little goofy but the artwork creeped me out. I believe it was in the second book there was a short story by the name of "Class Cootie" that never left my mind since reading it. It touched the topic of being a social outcast in a very mean way, with the character of focus in the story being an awkward boy who was poked fun at forever after a small mishap in class. His grief causes him to run away from school, but he didn't get far as he was hit by an oncoming vehicle. The story then displays how the students and teachers react to his passing in the following days, pretending to be depressed or saying they were actually close friends all along, the way the author portrays even the principal got under my skin as it wasn't even that long ago that he was called names and shunned by his peers.
The school held some sort of wake for the boy, and his teachers and fellow classmates attended. They recieved a surprise visit from the boy's mother who cursed them all to pay for the way they mistreated her son. And as she finished her shouting, the rain worsened and strange purple frog sized creatures fell from the sky. They filled the hallways of the school and eventually everyone inside the school died from either drowning or stepping on eachother trying to escape.
This is simply an abridged version of the events in the book, and the way I saw it. I really recommend this story and almost every other one that appeared in the Dare to be Scared series! It's one of my favorite scary stories of all time and I wanted to share that, so now it's your turn to give it a go!
What's your favorite scary story?
Back when I was a wee little babbi, I would spend a lot of time with my family at the library in town, specifically the kid's reading area. However, I was never interested in stories like Animorphs or picture books, I enjoyed being afraid or disturbed, or even the simple feeling of not understanding a situation but knowing everything will be clear soon enough. I spent days reading R.L. Stein books, and a few Stephen King stories like The Cell and Trucks (otherwise known as Maximum Overdrive), but while they always held my attention, they were always too drawn out for my taste, heck, sometimes they didn't even have a proper ending!
Then I came across some books called Dare to be Scared and Double-Dare to be Scared. The titles were a little goofy but the artwork creeped me out. I believe it was in the second book there was a short story by the name of "Class Cootie" that never left my mind since reading it. It touched the topic of being a social outcast in a very mean way, with the character of focus in the story being an awkward boy who was poked fun at forever after a small mishap in class. His grief causes him to run away from school, but he didn't get far as he was hit by an oncoming vehicle. The story then displays how the students and teachers react to his passing in the following days, pretending to be depressed or saying they were actually close friends all along, the way the author portrays even the principal got under my skin as it wasn't even that long ago that he was called names and shunned by his peers.
The school held some sort of wake for the boy, and his teachers and fellow classmates attended. They recieved a surprise visit from the boy's mother who cursed them all to pay for the way they mistreated her son. And as she finished her shouting, the rain worsened and strange purple frog sized creatures fell from the sky. They filled the hallways of the school and eventually everyone inside the school died from either drowning or stepping on eachother trying to escape.
This is simply an abridged version of the events in the book, and the way I saw it. I really recommend this story and almost every other one that appeared in the Dare to be Scared series! It's one of my favorite scary stories of all time and I wanted to share that, so now it's your turn to give it a go!
What's your favorite scary story?
