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

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NameChangeLifeChange · 01/10/2022 22:32

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??

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ShaneTwane · 01/10/2022 22:35

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

Isaidnoalready · 01/10/2022 22:35

Are you sure it was a children's book?

HelloDoggy · 01/10/2022 22:36

Bfg?

NameChangeLifeChange · 01/10/2022 22:37

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

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countingdownagain · 01/10/2022 22:38

Strewelpeter?

Pleasegivemeyourwisdom · 01/10/2022 22:38

Yikes

NameChangeLifeChange · 01/10/2022 22:39

countingdownagain · 01/10/2022 22:38

Strewelpeter?

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

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CheshGirl · 01/10/2022 22:40

No but I want to know!

KnickerlessParsons · 01/10/2022 22:40

BFG?

NameChangeLifeChange · 01/10/2022 22:41

Not BFG it was creepier than that!

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Rowthe · 01/10/2022 22:41

Sounds interesting

incognitodorrito · 01/10/2022 22:42

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

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 01/10/2022 22:46

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?

NameChangeLifeChange · 01/10/2022 22:47

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.

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WhileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps · 01/10/2022 22:48

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

NameChangeLifeChange · 01/10/2022 22:48

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

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Narwhaleahoy · 01/10/2022 22:49

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

NameChangeLifeChange · 01/10/2022 22:54

@Narwhaleahoy 33!

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PomBearWithoutHerOFRS · 01/10/2022 22:54

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 😀)

RiftGibbon · 01/10/2022 22:58

Sounds more like something from an episode of Saladfingers.

ninetieseyebrows · 01/10/2022 22:59

Fungus the boogeyman?

Ellami · 01/10/2022 23:02

Sounds like the cover of the BFG

NameChangeLifeChange · 01/10/2022 23:02

@ninetieseyebrows definitely creepier!

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Dunnoburt · 01/10/2022 23:05

Goosebumps?

Narwhaleahoy · 01/10/2022 23:05

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