Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control. From TMDB
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60 of 183 · most liked firstI grew up on a diet of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark... I swear these vines covering a lamppost in Wroclaw, Poland are straight out of my childhood nightmares.
unlabelledView post →Nothing fills me with a sense of dread quite like the work of artist Chris Van Allsburg. When I was very young, his illustrations terrified me just as much as the ones in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, but in a way I didn't even have words to describe yet. He was liminal before liminal was cool
unlabelledView post →If I was high and saw this guy I would die of fright like in the Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark books
unlabelledView post →Drawtober Day 22: Scary Story I, like a lot of Millenials, had the "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" book as a kid and have been haunted by the Green Ribbon story well into adulthood. #drawtober #Halloweenie
unlabelledView post →these Stephen Gammell illustrations from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark rewired my brain as a kid. still grateful to them for fucking me up in a (mostly) good way.
unlabelledView post →Sometimes Belzy looks like the pale lady from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
unlabelledView post →André Øvredal (‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ and ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’) will direct the ‘BENDY AND THE INK MACHINE’ film! "I promise we are going to make a real special movie, something that all the fans are going to love." #Bendy #BendyMovie
unlabelledView post →I got my 7 year old nephew Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark for Christmas and he immediately started obsessing over the pictures so I hope I did a good Aunt Job this year.
unlabelledView post →The Five Nights At Freddy's books are the 2010s and 2020s version of Goosebumps. Or Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark. As a Youth Librarian and a gamer I find this amusing.
unlabelledView post →An OnlyFans and it's just me reading you Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
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unlabelledView post →Help me ID a book from a hazy 1980s childhood memory. As a child, we had a book of scary stories that included some absolutely ghastly but entrancing pen-and-ink art. I'm 99% sure they're not "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark". I don't remember much, but a few things stuck with me: - a picture of a diver in an old-timey deep sea diving suit and maybe a sea-witch type character draped in seaweed. - at least one really creepy drawing of a willow tree - one or more of the pictures also involved…
unlabelledView post →I love to recognize a kid in a Charles Schwab commercial as having been in SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK (2019), which I saw once several years ago.
unlabelledView post →I Made Ranchero Sauce In The Blender & Now The Lid Smells Like Cumin & Other Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
unlabelledView post →If I could hire anyone in the world to illustrate a new "Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark" book it would be Natalie fucking Hall.
unlabelledView post →Got a bug bite on my leg and now thanks to the old "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" books, I'm just waiting for a bunch of spiders to crawl out of it.
unlabelledView post →Being heterosexual as a woman means always having at least a 40% of walking into a Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark illustration.
unlabelledView post →Spooky alters month Day 25: Recurring Nightmare hand painted after one of Stephen Gammell's illustrations for 'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark'.
unlabelledView post →Director André Øvredal’s (The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, The Last Voyage of the Demeter) next horror movie is titled PASSENGER. Passenger will release in theaters May 29.
unlabelledView post →Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark x Frieren crossover wip!
unlabelledView post →Are these posters supposed to remind me of the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark illustration of the woman with spiders hatching in her face?
unlabelledView post →SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK 2 is caught in "copyright ownership hell," André Øvredal reveals: bloody-disgusting.com/movie/395247...
unlabelledView post →here is my pipe dream: someday we do a Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark-style illustrated short story collection
unlabelledView post →Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) #filmsky #horrorsky
unlabelledView post →FEAR STREET X SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK When a Jewish girl accidentally reawakens an ancient curse over her town, she must fight through mythological nightmares and break the curse before she's torn apart like the demon who start it all. #YA #H #Jewish #OwnVoices #PosterPitW #PosterPit
unlabelledView post →Raise your hand if you have been personally victimized by the Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark illustrations
unlabelledView post →Hey circling back on "Me Tie Dough-ty Walker!" published in SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK 43 years ago: what the fuck
unlabelledView post →Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Those books fucked up 3rd and 4th grade Ophelia
unlabelledView post →Reading Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and staring at Stephen Gammell’s art before going to bed wasn’t the smartest thing I did as a kid 👀
unlabelledView post →Kevin Smith's The 4:30 Movie set for November 4K and Blu-ray release. Kevin Smith's The 4:30 Movie set for November 4K and Blu-ray release ==================================================================== > Kevin Smith's sixteenth feature film, The 4:30 Movie, is coming to 4K and Blu-ray in November, including an Amazon exclusive steelbook > > *The 4:30 Movie*, the sixteenth feature film from director Kevin Smith, received a theatrical release on September 13th, and now it has been…
unlabelledView post →this reads like something out of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, but for software devs
unlabelledView post →My gateway to horror was the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books. With the Stephen Gammell illustrations, obviously.
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) #Horror #Movies #Film
unlabelledView post →His face looks like something out of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
unlabelledView post →I call that the “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark/Stephen Gammell Effect”
unlabelledView post →My best guess is the *Tales to Tremble By* scary story collections:    Each story had some creepy art by Gordon Laite: …
unlabelledView post →2025 Bingo Stats. Here’s the breakdown of [2025’s bingo](https://threadiverse.link/lemmy.world/post/28953205)! _Submissions are included in the stats _as they were reported_. In other words, while we do verify that works exist (as a side effect of compiling reading stats), we don’t check if they “count”. We also don’t police other aspects of the rules; we’re just happy you’re reading!_ ::: spoiler What got completed? 
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