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    21 Books That Terrified You As A Kid

    And probably still give you nightmares. Admit it: these books have been mentally scarred you for life.

    When you were little, there were those books that were scary in a fun kind of way. And then there were those traumatizing how-can-I-fall-asleep-now-that-you-have-subjected-me-to-these-acts-of-horror type of scary books like these:

    WARNING: Reading this post could cause flashbacks of childhood nightmares.

    Outside Over There

    Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

    Tikki Tikki Tembo

    The Funny Little Woman

    The Bible

    The Witches

    Love You Forever

    Where the Red Fern Grows

    Goodnight Moon

    The Runaway Bunny

    Milk and Cookies

    Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present

    Are You My Mother?

    Alice in Wonderland

    Dinner time

    Bunnicula

    D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths

    It Came From the Internet

    Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark

    Ok. This time, and the time after that, you had to know what you were getting into. But still. It was just too scary. Scarier than we could imagine things could ever be. Or ever will be.