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Favorite Scary Stories of American Children

Scary stories have been instrumental in nurturing children's interest toward expanding their creativity and thoughtfulness. This is because scary stories tend to empower your children with valuable skills, especially when facing evil or confronting villains. Scary stories common in America tend to be practical scary stories based on truth.
  1. "A Choir of Ill Children"

    • Written by Tom Piccirilli in a language that is easy to understand,"A Choir of Ill Children" features Thomas with his three brothers, Jonah, Sebastian and Cole, who are co-joined triplets and share a single brain. Thomas is faced by many challenges; he is assaulted by old witches who believe that the flooding affecting the town of Kingdom Come may only be battled by using his sperm. Child-molesting ghosts attack him in dreams and when awake, and a knife-wielding redneck tries to get him as well. Sarah, a cocaine-addicted filmmaker, falls in love with one of the triplets. Dodi, the young daughter of one of the old witches tries to eliminate Sarah. As the story progresses, Thomas works hard to solve all the horrors affecting his family and the town.

    "Axe Murder Hollow"

    • "Axe Murder Hollow" is a Pennsylvania ghost story retold by S.E. Schlosser. Lightning flashes followed by a roar of thunder in the darkened sky as rain begins to pour while Susan and Ned drive on a highway passing through a forest. When Ned steps on the brake pedal to stop the car, the car slides and veers off the road to the bottom of a hill. To make matters worse, they encounter a ghost. As the story progresses, it reveals their ordeal with the ghost.

    "Monster Museum"

    • Written by Marilyn Singer and illustrated by Gris Grimly, "Monster Museum" is a scary children's story that presents scary monsters of all kinds. The monsters perform a lot of evils while trying to discover their supernatural powers. Just when you think that it is becoming scary, the monsters begin to make friends and you discover that monsters need friends too.

    "A Very Scary Witch Story"

    • "A Very Scary Witch Story" is written by Joanne Barkan and illustrated by Jody Wheeler. It is a story with a Halloween theme. By reading it, you will be convinced that brooms can fly and do awful things. The story is about a young girl who relates her scary experiences in coping with her big sisters who are witches. Her sisters leave her behind one evening to attend the witches' ball. She is left behind to figure out how to use a mystifying broom to get rid of horrors that haunt the house. The broom gets out of control and takes her to the same witches' ball that her sisters are attending. It turns out her mean sisters had figured out she could make the journey to prove she is a witch too.

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