Scary stories for Halloween
Guardian books writers select their favourite seasonal chillers
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Lee Wildish teaches you how to draw a ferocious ogre this half term!It’s the very same ogre that is outwitted by George in the hilarious adventure Doughnuts for a Dragon which Lee illustrated. The words are by Adam and Charlotte Guillain
Scary stories for Halloween: Little terrors for children
Scary stories for Halloween: The Birds by Daphne du Maurier
Scary stories for Halloween: The Screaming Skull by Francis Marion Crawford
Scary stories for Halloween: Gramma by Stephen King
Scary stories for Halloween: The Hospice by Robert Aickman
Xan Brooks: The plainness of this story's setting is not so much a background for horror as its very source
Scary stories for Halloween: The New Mother by Lucy Clifford
Justine Jordan: At first sight a familiar kind of Victorian cautionary tale, this story opens on to some unusually profound anxieties
Scary stories for Halloween: The Colour Out of Space by HP Lovecraft
Chris Power: The horror of this story has as much to do with its setting as its characters
Scary stories for Halloween: A Distant Episode by Paul Bowles
Sam Jordison: The fate of a hapless professor in Morocco taking one wrong turn too many is the focus of this profoundly unsettling tale
Scary stories for Halloween: Granny's Grinning by Robert Shearman
Stuart Kelly: Exciting Christmas presents open into something genuinely horrific for the children in this grisly tale
Scary stories for Halloween: The Landlady by Roald Dahl
Sarah Crown: Beginning our series on frightening fiction, a reassuringly ordinary-looking street conceals some very unusual secrets
