With Halloween just around the corner, I'm feeling the spirit of the holiday and wanting to share some of the scarier books I loved to read at this time of year when I was a kid. I must have checked out In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz every Halloween from the school library. The Green Ribbon story in it is still burned in my memory, probably because the girl's head is only held in place by that titular ribbon. I also distinctly remember my second or third grade teacher reading Bunnicula to us and being totally spellbound. As a kid I was easily frightened but I loved to be scared! It was enthralling, mysterious, and spine-tingling fun. One winter my family and some friends spent time in Lake Chelan and I remember cozying up in bed as the snow fell outside, and my dad telling us young girls a ghost story. He was a great storyteller, and that night he told us the story of The Hook Man- now, I can't remember much about it, except two teenagers being trapped in a car hearing the eerie, foreboding scrape of metal against the car doors and windows as the Hook Man approached, and we were petrified. I mean full on crying, sleeping with the lights on terrified! and we loved it! The more we shrieked and screamed the better. And that's what Halloween fun is all about.
Wishing you all happy haunting and more treats than tricks!
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