Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones



You can read all of the stories here, some are much better than others.

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The Big Toe

A filthy little boy finds a big toe from the ground and brings it home to add to his family’s soup. Then the toe’s owner shows up looking for it.

[The Beard]

The Dead Man’s Brains

This scary story is a scary game that people play on Halloween. But it can be played whenever the spirit moves you. The players sit in a circle in a darken room and listen to a storyteller describe the rotting remains of a corpse. Each part is passed around for them to feel. A player is out if he or she screams or gasps with fright.

Once in this town, there lived a man named Brown. It was years ago on this night, that he was murdered out of spite. We have here his remains. First, let's feel his brains. [Which is a wet, squishy tomato], etc.

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The Viper

A widow lived alone on the top floor of an apartment house. One morning, her telephone rang. "Hello," she said. "This is the viper," a man said. "I'm coming up." "Somebody is fooling around," she thought, and hung up.

A half-hour later, the telephone rang again. It was the same man. "It's the viper," he said. "I'll be up soon." The widow didn't know what to think, but she was getting frightened.

Once more, the telephone rang. Again it was the viper. "I'm coming up now," he said. She quickly called the police. They said they would be right over. When the doorbell rang, she sighed with relief. "They are here!" she thought.

But when she opened the door, there stood a little old man with a bucket and a cloth. "I am the viper," he said. "I vish to vash and vipe the vindows."

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The Attic

A man named Rupert lived with his dog in a house deep in the woods. Rupert was a hunter and a trapper. The dog was a big German shepherd named Sam. Rupert had raised Sam from a pup. Almost every morning, Rupert went hunting, and Sam stayed behind and guarded the house.

One morning, as Rupert was checking his traps, he got the feeling that something was wrong at home. He hurried back as fast as he could, but when he got there, he found that Sam was missing. He searched the house and the woods nearby, but Sam was nowhere to be seen. He called and he called, but the dog did not answer. For days Rupert looked for Sam, but he could find no trace of him. Finally he gave up and went back to his work.

But one morning, he heard something moving in the attic. He picked up his gun. Then he thought, "I'd better be quiet about this." So he took off his boots. And in his bare feet, he began to climb the attic stairs. He slowly took one step-- then another-- then another, until at last he reached the attic door. He stood outside listening, but he didn't hear a thing. Then he opened the door, and--

"AAAAAAAAAAAH!"

[At this point, the storyteller stops, as if he has finished. Then usually somebody will ask, "Why did Rupert scream?" The storyteller replies, "You'd scream too if you stepped on a nail in your bare feet."]

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The Slithery-Dee

The slithery-dee,

he came out of the sea.

He ate all the others,

but he didn't eat me.


The slithery-dee,

he came out of the sea.

He ate all the others,

but he didn't eat--

SL-U-R-P...

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The Bad News

Leon and Todd loved baseball. When they were young, they had played on the town's baseball team. Leon had been the pitcher and Todd had played second base. Now that they were alot older, they spent their free time watching baseball games on TV and talking about baseball.

"You think they play baseball in heaven?" Leon asked Todd one day. "That's a good question" said Todd. "The one who gets there first should let the other one know somehow". As it turned out, Todd got to heaven first and Leon waited patiently to hear from him. One day, Leon found Todd sitting in the living room waiting for him. Leon was very excited to see him. "Well, what is it like up there?" he asked. "And what about baseball?"

"When it comes to baseball" said Todd, "I have some good news and I have some bad news. The good news is that we do play baseball in heaven. We have some fine teams. I play second base on my team just like I used to in the old days. That's the good news". "What's the bad news?" asked Leon. "The bad news" said Todd "is that you are scheduled to pitch tomorrow".

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The Brown Suit
Read about why the undertaker switched there heads...

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Ba-Room!
To the tune of The Irish Washerwoman

O'Leary is dead,

and O'Riley don't know it.

O'Riley is dead,

and O'Leary don't know it.

They both are dead

in the very same bed,

and neither one knows

that the other one's dead.

BA-ROOOM! BA-ROOOM!

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Thumpity-Thump
A simple little story about a faithful chair.

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The Walk
Why the narrator's uncle screamed.

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What Do You Come For?
Or if you think about it, be careful what you wish for.

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Me Tie Dough-ty Walker!
Just a story about a boy and his dog.

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A Man Who Lived In Leeds
A poem about a gardener and what may have happened to him.

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Old Woman All Skin and Bone
And the worms crawl in, the worms crawl out

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The Thing
Stay away from turnip fields at night.

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Cold As Clay
Just a farmhand named Jim.

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The White Wolf
The wolf came back to settle a debt.

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The Haunted House
The preacher and the ghost.

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The Guests
In a ghostly house.

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The Hearse Song

The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,

The worms play pinochle on your snout.

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The Girl Who Stood on a Grave
...and what happened when she did.

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A New Horse
Some farmhands are not stupid.

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Alligators
Beware of those who swim in rivers.

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Room for One More
Never take them up on that offer.

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Aaron Kelly's Bones
What happens when I dead man doesn't know he's dead.

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The Wendigo
One version of a Native American legend.

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May I Carry Your Basket?
Sometimes being helpful is dangerous.

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The Hook
Parking interrupted.

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The White Gown
You really need to know where things come from.