to sue the school for giving DD a free book that has left her so scared

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she couldn't sleep last night and had to bring her duvet into our room to sleep on the floor, so I tripped over her when I got out of bed for a wee and banged my wrist on the dressing table?

Eh?

Bloody 'Sign of the Plum Tree' or whatever it's called! About the plague in London or something

I can remember crying and crying at a book when I was about 8, about a lost cat

[scarred for life]

'elfish giant'?

A contradiction in terms surely

oh god I remember being compelled to read Nuclear Holocaust fiction when I was a couple of years older than this. I could not stop, and became obsessed with them, even though they scared the crap out of me. Awful. I used to get holocaust nightmares all the time. And yet I still kept reading. why?

Horrible! Hope your wrist is OK.

GeraldineTLG I remember nuclear holocaust related films and literature being quite prevalent when I was at school.
'When the wind blows!' left me depressed to this day.

I wet myself aged 10, reading an Agatha Christie 'Then There Were None' or something like that.

It was all about ten people being stuck on an island slowly being killed off and voices booming out of nowhere.

I started reading it in the dining room and was so scared I couldn't move.

I remember reading a collection of Daphne DuMaurier stories at age 11. I had to sleep with the light on.

JoBettany I remember that one. One of her better efforts, I thought.

Isn't scaring yourself one of the strange pleasures in life though? I still like thrillers and things that make me look over my shoulder. And I always listen to The Man in Black.

I totally agree! I read Woman in Black a few months back - had to read it with my back to a wall in case something crept up behind me

Once when I was a kid I was waiting in the queue at the newsagent and read the front of a book. It was called 'Slime' and it had a picture on the front of a screaming woman sitting up in the bath with green things sticking to her face. Underneath it said 'You'll never feel safe in your bath again!'
They were right, I didn't ever feel safe in the bath again, well not for about 10 years after seeing that. And I hadn't even read the bloody book!

It was the first one of hers I ever read LLKH and, I think, one of her best. It was so claustrophobic and creepy. The bit at the end when the main character appears to be on his own was terrifying to me at that age.

I must try and read it again. To be honest I have avoided it ever since!

I always blub reading selfish giant! I will quite frankly sob all through anything sad. My new personal low was crying during the dvd of barbie fairytopia

The Fog terrified me - the bit where the cows were snapping off the farmer's fingers....

I still wish I hadn't read the exorcist when I was a teenager - I had to sleep with the light on for years

The Badger one is Badger's Parting Gifts, SanFranDisco.
I cried reading that too.
buckets.

I can't go through heavy rain without thinking that my house will sail away, either.
I live in a terrace now, so I say "thank god we live in aterrace, as there's less chance of it sailing away!"

My son who was then 10 read a little bit of Goodbye Mog in W H Smith, he loved Mog as we had a cat that looked just like her. The biggest dread in his life was that our cat would die, he was so hysterical overnight about the book that we kept him off school the next day When the cat did die he was in pieces for two months until we got another kitten. He couldn't remember being without the cat and she had gone to bed with him every night like a teddy from when he was 2.

:( aww. I cried buckets at Goodbye Mog, too.

I try to read books about death and important issues, so that I can recommend them to customers. it kills me. :(

I know Mary Hooper. She's local to the school I taught at and she often used the library (attached to the school). She'd come in every year to chat to the kids about how to write stories. Lovely lady.

If your DC is in Year 7, then it is part of a drive to encourage reading in students of this age. All Year 7 students get to choose a "free" book from a set of 12 or so (arranged via a Company called Booked Up)

I've arranged the order at the school I work at - I thought this book looked like the best choice for the girls.

It is bigfoot. She is loving it. It's just very scary apparently.

Oh for God's sake. Get a grip the lot of you.
My Dd couldn't sleep for days after watching @Good-night Mr [email protected] I sue the film-makers?????(hmm)

and they left soooo much out!!!

I weeeeeep when I watch the film, because my head runs through all the important bits they left out.
cedar if your DD is old enough, get her to read the book.

cedar...it was a joke

Anyone remember those Point Horror books? bloody hell, they gave me many a sleepless night. Horror books aimed at teens...hmm nice idea but they didn't factor the chicken teens like me!

yes! When The Wind Blows was DREADFUL!! WAIIIILLLLLLL!

I remember being terrified of my stamp album at that age, because it had a picture of a mummy case and I knew what was inside mummy cases....

I loved point horror! I remember one called beach house that used to freak me and DS out .
Wasn't there a collection for older (or braver) kids called nightmare? I'm sure I had one about werewolves!