I don’t remember which book it was in, but the story about the person calling every single hour only to find out he was in the house the whole time scared me back in the day so much I absolutely dreaded going back to my room in the basement at night. Especially since my room was the furthest from the stairs.
The original Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books, with the fucked up heroin withdrawal style illustrations
based. The chick from the spiderbite story STILL lives rent free in my memory, that, and the grim reaper pointing
Also the chihuahua rat.
The legend that is Stephen Gammell.
I don’t remember which book it was in, but the story about the person calling every single hour only to find out he was in the house the whole time scared me back in the day so much I absolutely dreaded going back to my room in the basement at night. Especially since my room was the furthest from the stairs.