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I propose a thread dedicated to the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series of books.

I just found out this fucking series was the most challenged series of books from 1990-1999 by libraries and is still in the top ten of challenged books.

Here is the reason it was banned from Marshall Universities Libraries in West Virgina and the years the bannings took place.

2009

Banned or challenged for occult/Satanism, religious viewpoint and violence.

2007

Banned for insensitivity, violence, being unsuited to age group, and occult/Satanism.

2001

Banned for violence, being unsuited to age group, and occult themes

>> No.1042413

ill be reading up on it now

>> No.1042430
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I disagree with the book being banned for the stories, because they were pretty god damned tame (even if cannibalism and people being murdered painfully was a pretty frequent occurrence), but I do gotta say, Stephen Gammell's artwork is pretty fucking insane to be featured in the pages of a children's book.

That said, posting some of his artwork now.

>> No.1042440
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There was not one mention of Satanism in any of the stories in those books.

What the fuck?

Also, contributing pics of some more fucked up art.

>> No.1042447

found the second or third book in the series just last month and realized how fucked up the artwork is. even as an adult it gives me the creeps. awesome stuff.

>> No.1042448

Stephen King's "IT" used to be a big banned book back in the eighties and nineties.

I take some amusement at the Pearl Clutcher Brigade going through all books looking for objectionable material with a highlighter, then getting to the orgy at the back of that one. They must have flipped.

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>> No.1042454

>>1042440

These are Jesus freaks. Anything that has skeletons and ghosts and zombies and doesn't accept Our Lord Jesus Christ into their hearts = Satanists.

>> No.1042499

>>1042430

As a kid I loved putting this picture as the second slide of a power point presentation, just to scare people. I photocopied it right out of the book.

>> No.1042510

>>1042410
>>1042430
>>1042440
>>1042453
Were these pictures actually in the books or are they just by the same artist?

>> No.1042670

>>1042510
There pictures, and many more, were all in the books.

>> No.1042687

holy jesus, the one about the brothers who milked cows and made an effigy of some dude they disliked

then it skinned one of them

oh god, the one about the girl who was stalked by the thing with the glowing eyes that she could see out the window

oh god

why did you do this to me at three in the morning /tg/

why

;_;

>> No.1042696

>>1042687
you aren't even /tg/ oh god I'm going crazy shit

fuck

>> No.1042723

*sings* Never laugh as the hearse goes by, for you may be the next one to die~!

>> No.1042725

>>1042723
ಠ_ಠ

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>>1042723
When I was little, my friends and I would sing that song incessantly. It was funny, in a morbid kind of way.