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Those scary stories illustrations were so terrifying as a child and awesome now. My nephew told me he had one of the books and I saw it had the new illustrations and I took the book away from him and told him to find an old copy.
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Feb 6, 2016 16:34
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Was that from the same tsunami that wrecked Fukushima?
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Feb 6, 2016 21:42
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I once found Stephen Gammell's publicity address and wrote him a letter about how he scared the poo poo out of me and a generation and how that's awesome as gently caress, and sent the dustjacket of my Scary Stories book. He autographed it 
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Feb 6, 2016 22:19
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TheDon01 posted:Was that from the same tsunami that wrecked Fukushima? Yeah. 
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Feb 7, 2016 10:21
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Soo uhh did yall hear about this? https://twitter.com/RealGDT/status/687722848379506688
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Feb 8, 2016 06:08
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Del Toro starts a lot of projects. 
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Feb 8, 2016 06:12
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AGirlWonder posted:Del Toro starts a lot of projects. I just want him to get his At The Mountains of Madness movie made. If this is what he does in the meantime, so be it.
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Feb 8, 2016 06:15
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Somfin posted:I just want him to get his At The Mountains of Madness movie made. If this is what he does in the meantime, so be it. He almost had funding for it with Tom Cruise set to star, but the studio demanded a pg-13 rating and he just didn't think it could be properly done.
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Feb 8, 2016 06:27
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7c Nickel posted:Soo uhh did yall hear about this? Ron Perlman as Harold the Scarecrow.
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Feb 8, 2016 06:58
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Zeroisanumber posted:He almost had funding for it with Tom Cruise set to star, but the studio demanded a pg-13 rating and he just didn't think it could be properly done. That sucks. Cruise is certifiably insane but he acts his pants off. He does intense very' very well.
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Feb 8, 2016 08:07
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Nuebot posted:gently caress that poo poo I've never heard of the Tailypo. My fear in the northwoods has always been the Wendigo.  When it's cold and dark, the snow is deep, and the animals are asleep, the Wendigo will come for you. The Wendigo always comes when it's cold.
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Feb 8, 2016 09:06
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I grew up in a heavily wooded area and that loving tailypo poo poo was a common camp-fire spook story and it's probably the first story to ever scare the poo poo out of me.
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Internet Kraken posted:I think when I was in gradeschool one of our required readings was a story about a girl who goes to live with some creepy relative that is implied to be like, almost a skeleton or something. Said skeleton keeps not so subtly talking about how its going to rip off her skin and eat it. I don't think the story was actually scary, but it was weird. Weird because I had no idea why this of all things was our required reading. Pretty sure that's the aptly named Skeleton Man. It had some pretty cool native american lore stuff involved. I was actually pretty creeped out by it but i can't explain exactly why. I think part of it was i definitely had kind of separation anxiety as a kid, so I could relate to the fear of losing your parents and being stuck with some creepy-rear end old dude.
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Feb 8, 2016 20:02
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Somfin posted:I just want him to get his At The Mountains of Madness movie made. If this is what he does in the meantime, so be it. I think he said it was pointless since Prometheus was made and it was basically At the Mountains of Madness IN SPACE!
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Feb 8, 2016 20:22
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mostlygray posted:I've never heard of the Tailypo. My fear in the northwoods has always been the Wendigo. Goddamn loving Wendigo. Kids from up north hear about that rear end in a top hat a dozen times before they're 10-years old. I'm 37 and every time I go out into the woods at night when it's very, very cold I feel that crawling fear in the back of my head. 
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Feb 8, 2016 23:09
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Play Until Dawn.
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Feb 9, 2016 01:24
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I like the fact that the Wendigo is basically a couple of life lessons rolled together with a horror story. Don't be a greedy rear end in a top hat. Don't eat other people. If you're caught in a snowstorm don't let fear control you. Running around when you're snow blind will get you killed. Just hunker down and wait it out.
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Feb 9, 2016 02:11
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It also contains the important life lesson that wendigos are 100% real and the howling of cannibal spirits is only imperfectly kept in check by the thin veneer of civilized society.
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Feb 9, 2016 02:17
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7c Nickel posted:I like the fact that the Wendigo is basically a couple of life lessons rolled together with a horror story. and also: If there is a hard winter/famine don't eat the bodies of those who already starved to death. Instead kill yourself.
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Feb 9, 2016 03:03
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo#Wendigo_psychosis
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Feb 9, 2016 03:09
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mostlygray posted:I've never heard of the Tailypo. My fear in the northwoods has always been the Wendigo. I first heard about wendigos from Pet Sematary depending on where you were though, sometimes the tailypo thing got mixed in with the wendigo stuff. The tailypo poo poo I heard was a hunter in the woods got stuck there during a blizzard and starving, desperately searching for food his dogs managed to chase down a strange creature and tear its tail off. So the man shared what little meat it could provide with the dogs and went to sleep. During the night he heard scratching at the cabin door and a voice calling out to him, demanding he return its tail. Terrified he sent out his hounds to chase off whatever was out there and tried to sleep. In the morning he found one dog dead and gutted outside the cabin, no sign of the others and scratches in the wooden door. This would repeat for a few nights, demands to return the tail with scratching and dead dogs in the morning. On the final night the door finally gave in and the creature busts in shouting at the guy to return its tail before gutting him as well  . I've heard a ton of different variations of it since growing up but the whole dog murder one seems to be most popular in the area I grew up at least.
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Feb 9, 2016 05:24
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Feb 9, 2016 06:38
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Someone is failing that lab assignment.
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Feb 9, 2016 07:41
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Slimy, yet satisfying.
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Feb 9, 2016 09:22
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Somfin posted:I just want him to get his At The Mountains of Madness movie made. If this is what he does in the meantime, so be it. Assuming that screenplay that was on the Internet a few years ago was real, then oh God, please no. That was just painfully bad. Also Prometheus is basically At the Mountains of Madness in space.
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Feb 9, 2016 13:52
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Feb 10, 2016 22:10
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I know that's not a gif. I can see that it's not a gif. But gently caress me if I don't keep expecting Mickey's head to turn my way.
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Feb 10, 2016 22:13
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Roro posted:I know that's not a gif. I can see that it's not a gif. I'm more concerned about the ostrich wearing the kimono.
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Feb 10, 2016 22:25
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Das Boo posted:I'm more concerned about the ostrich wearing the kimono. It's called fashion.
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Feb 10, 2016 22:27
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Roro posted:It's called fashion. It's called hideous. 
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Feb 10, 2016 22:29
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It's an Emu or a Rhea. 
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Feb 10, 2016 22:54
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Is that from that apartment in Paris that was left untouched since the 20's? I think I read she had an ostrich/emu in a dress like that.
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Feb 11, 2016 06:16
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It is. There was a big gallery on Imgur recently.
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Feb 11, 2016 06:20
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joat mon posted:It's an Emu or a Rhea. You beat me but yeah, ostriches only have two toes, and only the inner toe has a claw.
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Feb 11, 2016 08:48
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I figured it was probably an emu from the stature, but felt referring to it as an ostrich in a kimono would read funnier. Ya s.
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Feb 11, 2016 09:02
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So I did an image search for "baby beaver" (don't be gross) and I found mostly stuff like this. Dawww! But right in the middle of the 1st page was this.  I just don't know.
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Feb 13, 2016 01:15
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Feb 13, 2016 04:18
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As a kid we had one of those Reader's Digest Mystery books, and it had a bit about The Faces of Belmez which had photographs that really freaked me out, I'd dare myself to look at them and then slam the book shut. Just look at them! They were TRAPPED SOULS
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Feb 13, 2016 21:41
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Rondette posted:As a kid we had one of those Reader's Digest Mystery books, and it had a bit about The Faces of Belmez which had photographs that really freaked me out, I'd dare myself to look at them and then slam the book shut. Just look at them! I was obsessed with that book, and those pictures used to terrify the living poo poo out of me. I would do the same thing you would with getting myself worked up to look at them and shutting the book fast. Eventually I just bookmarked the page so I'd know to skip over it if I wasn't prepared
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Rondette posted:As a kid we had one of those Reader's Digest Mystery books, and it had a bit about The Faces of Belmez which had photographs that really freaked me out, I'd dare myself to look at them and then slam the book shut. Just look at them! I used to be so scared of those pics, but they just look silly now.
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