To ask if anyone remembers this creepy af kids book???

[NameChangeLifeChange]

There was a childrens book that I have vivid memories of and I remember it really scaring me as a child. I can’t remember the details but a tall man/ghoul type thing sneaks out in the nighttime and there’s a picture of him/it licking/nibbling the bristles of a broom.
The image is burned into my head but I can’t find it anywhere. Siblings and my mum claim to have no memory of this.
Please! Anyone else?? Creepy man sneaking around a house..I feel like maybe a child wakes up and sees him??

No but following in case this actually exists somewhere and someone remembers that batshittery.

Are you sure it was a children's book?

Bfg?

I’m sure it was!!!! Aaaargh I so hope someone else knows what I’m talking about or I will seem bonkers.

Strewelpeter?

Yikes

I don’t think so…never heard of it and not familiar on google

No but I want to know!

BFG?

Not BFG it was creepier than that!

Sounds interesting

Strewelpeter is ghoulish, but isn’t it about a boy with long nails and hair ?

I don't have a particular title to suggest, but Leon Garfield wrote scary/ghostly mis-lit books for children, with Victorian-style characters (thinking possibly a chimney sweep or something?) - I don't suppose it might have been one of his?

I wish i remembered more details. The image is of this tall ghoulish man stood behind a door (back door? Pantry door?) licking jam or something off the bristles of a broom.

Are you sure this wasn't a dream @NameChangeLifeChange ??? (Or nightmare!)

@WhileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps it does sound like it but I am SURE it was a book!!!

OP, how old are you? That might help narrow it down.

@Narwhaleahoy 33!

If it was the late 70s or after, there were a few collections of creepy short stories for kids that were really scary.
Try "Ghostly, Grim, and Gruesome" (and there were some others with alliterative titles in the series) or "The Shadow Cage (and other stories)"
I have a vague memory of something like you describe being in one of those.
(I was a strange child 😀)

Sounds more like something from an episode of Saladfingers.

Fungus the boogeyman?

Sounds like the cover of the BFG

@ninetieseyebrows definitely creepier!

Goosebumps?

Did you have older siblings? Sounds like something out of a graphic novel or Manga.