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it was kinda innapropriate/cruel to put this in 2nd grade libraries

>> No.20770406

>>20770382
>t. hates fun

>> No.20770768

>>20770382
the scariest thing I ever read was that one story about the scarecrow dancing on the roof

>> No.20770774

no it's inappropriate to put in the pedo tranny shit they have in schools now
scary stories are fine, books telling kids there are 30 genders and cutting your dick off is normal aren't.

>> No.20770785

>>20770382
I read this as a kid and when my dad saw me with it he said “You’re going have nightmares tonight.” He was wrong, I didn’t sleep the whole night.

>> No.20772173

>>20770382
What is this?

>> No.20772387

>>20772173
Fuck, you’re old

>> No.20772463

>>20770382
It made us tough.

>> No.20772500

>>20772387
I am (sorry)

>> No.20772582

>>20770382
in 3rd grade i came across this in our library and flipped to a random page. one of the illustrations alone gave me nightmares

>> No.20772775
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20772775

>>20770774
Yeah this. Maybe it was inappropriate for girls, but young boys must face hardship so they should be seen scary movies and books when young. It builds character. Of course tranny shit destroys character and the body.

>> No.20772919

>>20772387
More likely he just missed it, first book came out in like 81 so few here (if any) are too old for them.

>> No.20774129

>>20770382

I was a total pussy as a kid but these ones didn't get to me, I thought the artworks were neat though, maybe one or two were a little too spooky. In middle school I read some other "spooky" children's lit and that was when it first occurred to me that horror is an artisitically valid genre because it can make the audience feel something.

>> No.20774188

>>20770774
>thread about 2nd graders
>first thing that comes to his mind is pedosexual and transgender folx
you need to see a psychiatrist

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20774193

>>20770382
The virgin Scary Stories vs the CHAD Headless Horseman Rides Tonight

This is the one that fucked me up for years

>> No.20774195

>>20770406

>> No.20774208

>>20772919
Alright but what is it?

>> No.20774213
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It's probably a bit much, but I think kids can be receptive to certain kinds of horror fiction. RL Stine once said in an interview that he always felt confident including horrific events in his stories so long as they didn't involve relatable traumatic shit, that could actually correspond with a child's lived experience. As long as children are aware of the boundaries between reality and fiction, they can enjoy horror media, albeit relatively lighthearted stuff. pic unrelated

>> No.20774214

>>20772775
Maybe
Useful hardships like shooting a deer or farm chores or something
Scary supernatural shit, does that do any good?

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>>20774213
That's why High Beams is so scary. It's about a girl getting followed by a truck which keeps flashing its highbeams at her. She gets home and jumps out, yelling for her father to call the police, and when they arrive the truck driver testifies that he was only trying to warn her of a guy with a knife in her back seat, which the police caught afterwards. Each time the guy reached up to kill the girl, the truck driver flashed his brights so he'd sink back into the backseat, afraid of being caught.
It's a little unrealistic, but even as a kid the fear of being followed is very real.

>> No.20774306

As much as it scared me, I was also drawn to it. Makes me think something about fear is meant to be challenged. Imagine what kids have seen at that age since mankind's inception? If anything it's the norm for kids to see scary stuff.

>> No.20774389

>>20770382
I fucking adore this guy's art. Something about it is just profoundly unsettling. Even as an adult this shit makes me uneasy if it's late at night.

>> No.20774472

children have a natural sense of terror. most adults have safely rationalized it but are even more prone when something breaks through their barriers and sets it off

>> No.20774827

>>20770382
Why? It was fun.

>> No.20774854

>>20774208
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Sorry other anons were being lame.

>> No.20775448

>>20770382
my favorite book for silent reading time. I wish I could go back and experience that pure thrill of getting spooked.