#Creepy Stories

No Halloween is complete without blood-red candied apples and horror movies. Reddit users also reflect on the creepy stories that occurred during childhood but haunt them today. Knowing what makes for a good horror story is half of the problem, and the easiest way to determine this is by taking horror stories you like and then to analyse them for elements you found most effective.

The German author Heinrich Hoffman pretty much set the gold standard for nightmare-inducing children's stories with his most famous creation, Struwwelpeter, or Shockheaded Peter.” The title character of Hoffman's 1845 collection is all insane hair and grotesque fingernails (the story concerns the grisly fate of a young boy who refuses to bathe, trim his nails, or comb his hair), but the book also includes such gems as The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb.” In that tale, a child who won't quit sucking his thumb gets his digits snipped off by the Scissorman, a terrifying character that would go on to inspire Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands.

I'm a nighttime tour guide at an old convict prison in australia, it's run by the government so the tours are pretty watered down and family friendly (the tours run between like 6 and 9 on Wednesday and friday nights) and some of the scariest shit i've ever experienced has happened there.

Martin Scorsese once described it as "the granddaddy of all horror anthology films." The Ealing Studios production certainly has some real creepy moments, and in the tradition of all good horror portmanteau flicks, it true stories has an excellent framing story concerning an architect (Mervyn Johns) who arrives for an appointment at a house he's never visited before.

Just beyond the shadows, in the twilight space between life and death, lies the place where ghosts, demons, and otherworldly horrors tread. Was creepy looking and added to the real ghost legend. After his death, people reported seeing his ghost sitting under a poplar tree, wandering the courthouse, and generally creeping out the residents of Dover.