Pls help me find a scary story anthology from my childhood

[Harry Powell]

***it is not scary stories to tell in the dark, any volume.

The main one I’m trying to find the book for is described in this reddit post:

 

[Harry Powell]

It’s that middle post by hollimarie.

 

[captain_kamala]

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[BoringFaggot]

No

 

[DominusOdium]

Probably one of these

 

[UnPRePared]

 

[Jenna]

I believe it was called The Dick Friend Who Should Have Kept His Mouth Shut About the Monsters.

 

[BUBBLER]

 

[Uncle Floyd]

This?

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“From the corner of your eye to the focus of your fear.” You know that feeling you get when you read a book a think, ‘Wow, this is something else’? That was my exact thought…

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[DrTorqueCarlisi]

I remember! The monsters only came during bad weather. The book was called Monster Rain.

 

[Sexual_Tyrannosaurus]

Wait, seriously I think I remember this story. You can only see them if you believe they're real right? I've been trying to find this too. I think there was a cave they were in originally and the kids go there?

 

[AliceWorquer]

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It's pretty offensive that Jim would cast someone fat and ugly to play his hooker when he was by far the most repulsive human involved in all of his trysts.

 

[Harry Powell]

This?

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“From the corner of your eye to the focus of your fear.” You know that feeling you get when you read a book a think, ‘Wow, this is something else’? That was my exact thought…

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A genuine response? Thanks brotherman!

That’s not the story but it’s very similar. The one I’m looking for is probably in some anthology called “scary stories for sleepovers” or some shit.

I appreciate you taking a look, thanks again

 

[Harry Powell]

Wait, seriously I think I remember this story. You can only see them if you believe they're real right? I've been trying to find this too. I think there was a cave they were in originally and the kids go there?

I don’t remember the belief part or the cave but that’s totally possible.

I’m just gonna order like $100 of early 90s kids horror anthologies and see if I can find it. This story would be from some shit I probably got at a scholastic book fair in 1992.

There are a few more stories I remember but am not 100% sure are from the same volume:

1) a kid plays a d&d type video game and he sees it in his dreams(?) but it’s real?
2) some kids are camping in the woods and they fight or escape aliens. At the end the main kid looks at the stars and realizes they’re coming closer, the aliens are going to invade
3) some kind of story where a kid sees a monster in the mirror and the monster in his reality sees the kid in the mirror. In the end I think the human kid dies at the hand of the monster and the monster kid is scared and comforted by his monster mom?

I believe the stories I’m looking for are in an anthology by Bruce Coville, one of these:

 

[PogromStallone]

I don’t remember the belief part or the cave but that’s totally possible.

I’m just gonna order like $100 of early 90s kids horror anthologies and see if I can find it. This story would be from some shit I probably got at a scholastic book fair in 1992.

There are a few more stories I remember but am not 100% sure are from the same volume:

1) a kid plays a d&d type video game and he sees it in his dreams(?) but it’s real?
2) some kids are camping in the woods and they fight or escape aliens. At the end the main kid looks at the stars and realizes they’re coming closer, the aliens are going to invade
3) some kind of story where a kid sees a monster in the mirror and the monster in his reality sees the kid in the mirror. In the end I think the human kid dies at the hand of the monster and the monster kid is scared and comforted by his monster mom?

I believe the stories I’m looking for are in an anthology by Bruce Coville, one of these:

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The ending of the third one sounds like a Goosebumps book. The one where it's about a kid being scared of a monster and at the end it's revealed that the monster was a human and everyone in the book were actual monsters.

 

[TorqueWheeler]

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Probably one of these

Could possibly be The Gay Whores or My Son.. My Lover.

 

[TorqueWheeler]

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I'm so sad I read that when it came out...

 

[Sexual_Tyrannosaurus]

***it is not scary stories to tell in the dark, any volume.

The main one I’m trying to find the book for is described in this reddit post:



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Found it. It's "Crying Wolf" from More Scary Stories for Sleepovers.

 

[Jenna]

Found it. It's "Crying Wolf" from More Scary Stories for Sleepovers.

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7. "Crying Wolf"
Turns out Anne makes up stories all the time, which is why when she tells her friend Byron (?) about the little flashes of motion out of the corner of her eye which she suspects is gremlins, he's a little skeptical. The story follows Byron as Anne gets attacked in increasingly less ridiculous ways, starting from bites on her sandwiches and leading to cuts and bruises. When Byron claims to believe her, he sees movement nearby. Whoops.

That night, Byron sneaks to Anne's window in time to see a bunch of gremlins swarm her and knock down her lamp. When her parents turn the lights on, she's nowhere to be found. And when Byron gets back into his bed, he sees movement out of the corner of his eye...

Conclusion: Maybe it's my deep-seated fear of gremlins, but this story was pretty scary. Pretty good, actually, and it handled the theme well.

Certainly sounds like it

 

[Harry Powell]

Found it. It's "Crying Wolf" from More Scary Stories for Sleepovers.

That is it! You deserve the full jacuzzi brotherman