Youth and Horror

**Dave Sartin** · 2 Weeks Ago

OH MY GOD! I LOVE THAT BOOK! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

**GNTLGNT** · 2 Weeks Ago

...I read Lovecraft as a child....that 'splains a lot, don't it?...well, that and non-stop ingestion of lead paint chips...

**Todash** · 2 Weeks Ago

Originally Posted by GNTLGNT

...I read Lovecraft as a child....that 'splains a lot, don't it?...well, that and non-stop ingestion of lead paint chips...

That's certainly a one-two punch.

I actually didn't read anything scary as a young child that I can recall.

**Sundrop** · 2 Weeks Ago

I read a lot of ghost stories when I was a child. While they weren't really scary, they always drew me in.
I still love reading about local legends, ghosts, and spooky stories.

**Todash** · 2 Weeks Ago

Originally Posted by Sundrop

I read a lot of ghost stories when I was a child. While they weren't really scary, they always drew me in.
I still love reading about local legends, ghosts, and spooky stories.

OH WAIT. I just thought of something. But I don't want to hijack Dave's thread (doesn't really fit), so I will maybe post it in a new thread later or tomorrow.

**Todash** · 2 Weeks Ago

I seem to recall my husband's youngest sister really loving the Goosebumps books as a small thing.

**Sundrop** · 2 Weeks Ago

Originally Posted by Todash

OH WAIT. I just thought of something. But I don't want to hijack Dave's thread (doesn't really fit), so I will maybe post it in a new thread later or tomorrow.

I don't wanna wait......

**Walter Oobleck** · 2 Weeks Ago

The Buffalo Knife had me on edge no pun intended when I was in second...out there on the river, Indian country (if I can write that w/o incurring the wrath of the Con)...danger and darkness and...

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...yeah okay, so maybe that part is influenced by watching Davey! Davey Crockett! King of the Wild Frontier!...that or Daniel Boone...Daniel Boone was a man! Was a BIG MAN!...Yeah, for sure, Daniel, remember him teaching the young ones their conjugations? I'm a fixin to, she's a fixin to, we're a fixin to.
And then Dracula...took me a few years to work up the courage to read the book. I'm ordered a paperback and put it someplace...

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...in this old gun cabinet that was there when we moved into the house...a 2-gun cabinet over by the coalbin door that always stuck....sssschwhooomp! it'd go each time you opened it. Hey, you knew someone was in the basement you heard that noise.
Then there was a paperback Dark Shadows...this by...mmm, 8th grade I think...and it took me a few years before I could read that one. They had an after school soap opera called that, Dark Shadows, and Quentin was on the cover of the p.b. I want to call him Quentin Compson, but that sounds like a Faulkner character.
And then Frankenstein and same thing, all over again...I get the p.b...school sale, right, they pass around this comic book of book titles, you look at it, plead w/Mom who tells you to go and ask your old man, there in the living room, behind the paper? Work boots stretched out, one hand missing a few fingers (band saw, they're wicked nasty)...both hands veined w/iron? I dunno what was worse, me being afraid to read the books, or asking the old man for a dime. Heh! Were they a dime? I think they cost 25 35 cents, maybe 50 in some cases. Oh yeah, boy howdy, I knew all about counting the cost, believe me you.

**Autumn Gust** · 2 Weeks Ago

Anyone ever read The Witch of Blackbird Pond? I loved that book-- read it several times when I was eleven and twelve. It wasn't really scary but had some sinister themes. It's about a teenage girl who moves to a Puritan colony in America in the 1600s and is suspected of being a witch.