Ha! I realized I was unconsciously sucking in my gut while reading your comment.

Damn… I'd noticed that there was a version there for about $10 but it doesn't mention the illustrator (Lynd Ward) anywhere.
Even without the illustrations there are some fantastic stories – easily worth $10 if it's your kind of thing!

Damn… I'd noticed that there was a version there for about $10 but it doesn't mention the illustrator (Lynd Ward) anywhere.
Even without the illustrations there are some fantastic stories – easily worth $10 if it's your kind of thing!

I really don't know how that could be made into a movie without being super-cheesy… but if it WAS done right, yeah that would be a supremely creepy ending

I really don't know how that could be made into a movie without being super-cheesy… but if it WAS done right, yeah that would be a supremely creepy ending

Both of those are in this collection that i've been pimping elsewhere on these comments!

Both of those are in this collection that i've been pimping elsewhere on these comments!

It's the week of The Wendigo! It's one of my favourite short stories and it keeps getting mentioned around here lately…
It's really worth a read – I've never found it outright scary, but it's definitely unsettling (especially if you read it, as I did, late at night in a dilapidated old cottage on a lake). Most of the…

It's the week of The Wendigo! It's one of my favourite short stories and it keeps getting mentioned around here lately…
It's really worth a read – I've never found it outright scary, but it's definitely unsettling (especially if you read it, as I did, late at night in a dilapidated old cottage on a lake). Most of the…

Nice! The pale green pants illustrations were genuinely creepy to me too!

Nice! The pale green pants illustrations were genuinely creepy to me too!

I was re-reading that this summer and my wife kept getting pissed at me for leaving the book face-up on miscellaneous tables around the house.

I was re-reading that this summer and my wife kept getting pissed at me for leaving the book face-up on miscellaneous tables around the house.

Strangely, this came up on another thread this week, but when I was a kid my parents owned a cottage a couple of hours north of Toronto and one summer my sister and I found a mouldy old book there called "Great Ghost Stories of the World: The Haunted Omnibus".
At first I was terrified to even open it because the…

Strangely, this came up on another thread this week, but when I was a kid my parents owned a cottage a couple of hours north of Toronto and one summer my sister and I found a mouldy old book there called "Great Ghost Stories of the World: The Haunted Omnibus".
At first I was terrified to even open it because the…

Looook how scaaaaary I aaaaam!

Looook how scaaaaary I aaaaam!

I still give those raised storm drains a wide berth.

I still give those raised storm drains a wide berth.

Never read the book, but the "In Search Of…" episode about it scared the everliving fuck out of me as a kid.