And or scariest story you have ever told, or wrote, or read?
Why did it entice you to hear the whole story, or at least a part of it, and why or in what ways did it scare you?
Would you listen again, or not?
Who is a great story teller of these types of stories..in your own personal opinion..and this can be a family member, a neighbor, a librarian, a friend, a person whom you don't know etc...?
thanks!!
2007-09-21 10:13:01 · 6 answers · asked by ladyk 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
"Playmates" by A.M. Burrage. The child Monica is visited by the ghosts of the girls who had lived in the school that now is her house. They had died in a diphtheria epidemic at the school 100 years before. It seems that Monica might find happiness with them. But a church vicar, whose daughter also saw the girls during a play-date, warns Monica's guardian that he must take Monica away. If Monica continues to see these girls, then there might come others who are evil. Her guardian sends Monica away to school. But at the end, he enters the "schoolroom" and waits. As he sits there, he seems to feel the approach of little figures, little hands touching his. He looks around, but there is no one. He concludes that they will come if only he waits.
I have read other stories by Burrage, but nothing as moving as this.
2007-09-21 11:27:46 · answer #1 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
When I was in Boy Scouts our scoutmaster hired a professional story teller for one of our nightly campfires. The story teller narrated two stories that scared us all to h***. I mean really scared. We all went back to our tents in groups with enough flashlights to probably be seen from space. It took me hours to fall asleep because I didn't want to. All kids felt the same way, and we talked about it for years.
The stories were the famous "Monkey's Paw" and an Indian legend about the Manitou. I don't remember all the details about the Manitou but it was an Indian spirit in the shape of a terrible bird that would swoop down and pick humans up with its talons and carry them away to its nest for a midnight snack.
I have read both stories since and didn't find them that scary.But at night with blackness all around and the words coming from an excellent storyteller your imagination goes ballistic.
Worse then a snipe hunt.
2007-09-21 19:46:08 · answer #2 · answered by SgtMoto 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Get Haunted Heartland by Beth Scott and Michael Norman. Some of the stories in there are quite scary.
2007-09-21 20:26:05 · answer #3 · answered by chellyk 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Stephen King's Salem's Lot,Bram Stoker's
The Count of Dracula,Mary Shelley's Frankenstein are a few scary tales.
2007-09-29 16:38:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Shortest -
A man woke in the night.
Hearing a noise, he reached for the candle.
A hand passed it to him.
2007-09-21 17:18:09 · answer #5 · answered by dryheatdave 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Well i'm not much into ghost stories...
But if you go into my profile, and go to the question... and its in my answers, not my questions.
game......?
theres one of my stories. BTW tell me what you think of it, just email me.
2007-09-21 17:20:59 · answer #6 · answered by Paqrat 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋