Comments on: Nostalgic Scary Books

By: That Weird Kid

That Weird Kid — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 04:25:49 +0000

I remember when I was in grade school, our librarian would read stories from the second book shown every Halloween. He was a great story teller, and I was immensely entertained. I miss that guy he was cool lol.

By: caffeineadvocate

caffeineadvocate — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 08:45:21 +0000

Bloooooody fingers. Bloooooooooooooody fingers.

Scary Stories to tell in the dark are amazing. I’m sad you didn’t show the drawing of the spiders hatching from the girls’ face.

Never got into Goosebumps, myself. I was watching ‘Are You Afraid of the Dark’ at the time.

By: skwij

skwij — Fri, 30 May 2014 11:28:44 +0000

In reply to skwij. Mr. James, sir? I know there's a link on the website where you read aloud an F.X Nine Mega Man book, but I think it would be neat if you talked about some more of those. Some of them were OK, and some were really bad. I think that it would be cool if you did a video on "Choose Your Own Adventure" books or adventure books or adventure books like Grail Quest. Thanks for your time!

By: skwij

skwij — Fri, 30 May 2014 11:14:18 +0000

I had the first “Scary Stories” book when I was in the third grade, and that picture of the undead lady’s face scared the crap out of me. I think that the creators of Silent Hill got some inspiration from those books. Thanks for the video!

By: Reimeioh

Reimeioh — Sat, 24 May 2014 19:41:23 +0000

I also used to have The Film Encyclopedia book. Definitely a monster of a book about film and I doubt anyone I knew had this. Shame I don’t have much of any space or adequate living for me to have a lot of books in shelves.

By: OneBagTravel

OneBagTravel — Wed, 21 May 2014 04:41:25 +0000

Another great kids series is “In a dark dark room”

By: Gustavo Cruz

Gustavo Cruz — Wed, 21 May 2014 03:42:51 +0000

man those books use to scare the shit out of me. nice video james

By: Lazarus Nine

Lazarus Nine — Mon, 19 May 2014 15:41:03 +0000

I never read Goosebumps, because I think I was put off by the purple and green colour schemes. I guess I just assumed they were like Sweet Valley High books or something. But damn, those ‘Scary Stories’ books really had me going. There was a version of Ichabod Crane that was particularly memorable. I recall the toe story James mentions, but for me, it was probably the story about worms entering into a rotting corpse that is seared onto my psyche. There was even a little rhyme with it, if memory serves: ‘The worms go in, the worms go out…’

By: IZKitty

IZKitty — Mon, 19 May 2014 06:25:25 +0000

Thank you for not using the woman at 6:15 for the jumpscare. She ALWAYS freaked me out as a kid, and still does to this day. Got a lot of hangups from that bitch. ._.

But yeah, getting into Goosebumps and Scary Stories! Goosebumps was always good for that cheap scare with the good cliffhanger, and you’re right on the money in saying that the pictures tell a better scary tale than the tales themselves. They were so FREAKY. I look at the one from “The Red Spot” and get chills…doesn’t help I’m an arachnophobe, either.

By: Keenan Van der Griend

Keenan Van der Griend — Sat, 17 May 2014 05:20:35 +0000

It’s weird that you’ve never seen the show, it was a huge part of my childhood, but I guess you must have just missed it, and yeah they were exactly just the books in episodes, just really condensed. What was also pretty funny is that the commercial break was always a cliffhanger that would end in disappointment too. I just wish you would have also talked about the choose your own adventure Goosebumps books, because those were my favourite.

And whoever the artist was for Scary Stories was brilliant.