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Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark: Collected From American Folklore,Used
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Alvin Schwartzs Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark Opens With A Legend Similar To My Scarinducing 'Tailypo,' 'The Big Toe.' Less Sinister Than Severing A Woodland Creature'S Tail, In Schwartzs Version, A Little Boy Innocently Uncovers A Large Toe Sticking Up In The Garden. Not Exploring Further, He Wrenches It From The Ground (Or A Corpse) And Gives It To His Mother To Cook, As One Does. After Dinner And Settling Into Bed For Sleep And Digesting, A Voice Stalks The House, Calling Out For Its Missing Toe. Whether Zombie Or Ghost We Cant Be Sure, As Some Versions End With The Storyteller Pouncing On A Listener, And Others With A Figure In The Chimney Who Returns The Favor Of Having Its Toe Consumed By Eating The Little Boy. This Is The Perfect Opening For A Book Set To Scar Children For Life, Because What Is Scarier Than The Idea Of Being Devoured? Children Know They Won'T Stay Children Forever, That The Everlooming Threat Of Adulthood Stands In The Shadows, Ready To Devour Playtime And Naps. To A Child, Play Is Synonymous With The Self, And Therefore Maturity Threatens To Consume That Self. Don'T Even Have A Taste Of That Toe, Kids Once Adulthood Knows You'Re There, It Will Come Knocking, Forks Drawn. As A Child, I Feared Being Devoured Literally Thanks To Tailypo And The Grandmaeating Big Bad Wolf. As I Got Older This Fear Evolved Into A Biologically Absurd Terror At Sharks That (I Believed) Swam In The Freshwater Lakes Where My Family Would Waterski. In High School, My Asian Studies Teacher Gave A Lecture On The Film Jaws And The Great White As Metaphor For Our Own Terror At Things Deep (And Buried Like A Corpse!) In Our Psyche Rising Up From The Darkness To Consume Us, Transforming Us Into The Monsters We Know Were Capable Of Being, (The Fact That The Shark Was A Great White Shark Devouring Victims Is A Post For Another Day). At 17, This Lecture Blew My Mind And Resparked My Interest In Horror,
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