The Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Tier List Explained (Part 1)
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German window cleaner: "I'm going to vosh your vindo :)"
American lady: "... I'm going to get murdered."
nah he said 'the viper vipes at midnight' ... like wtf a window washer at midnight is already creepy af... hell, widow washers have been know for peeping for centuries!
@@tommytomthms5 Vell, look: If you clean se vindo in se sunlight, you get stripes! So you hef to vipe it at midnight 🤷🏼
I only know this story because Animaniacs parodied it. It was funny.
@@tommytomthms5 yeah, she kinda neglected to mention that the Viper only says he's going to "vipe and vash the vindows" at the end of the story. Before that it's ambiguous as to who he is or what he's going to do
@@patrickt.6492 Wasn't there also a GI Joe episode involving Ze Viper?
I really love the one where there are two old sick men in the hospital, and the one man has his bed next to the window so he can see the world, and the other man gets jealous, so he knocks over the window man's pills in the night so he can't reach them and dies. Then, when the jealous man takes his bed the next day, he looks over, and there's just a blank wall, no window. Existentially horrifying.
It's a brick wall outside of the window, but it's essentially the same thing. Some real life lessons right there...
I like the similar story, also in the collection, about two old baseball fans in a hospice, making a pact that the first one to go should come back to tell the other if they have baseball in heaven. Then one of them dies, and a few days later, he comes back and tells his friend that he has good news and bad news...
@@christopherwall2121 if I had the choice between heaven with no baseball and hell with baseball I’d pick hell every time
@@noshua2326 That's not the bad news. The bad news is the second guy is pitching on Tuesday.
“I once tattooed this art on somebody.” That’s a cultural moment right there.
I like that we all have a joker origin story that involves these stories.
I love how you define these stories as a death guide for children. Folklore has been used as ways to explain complex concepts to children for millennia, and our ability to elaborate these narratives as a species is one of my favorite things about humanity.
"Listen, my parents weren't going to tell me about the cruel realities of the world; LiveLeak was going to do that" is SUCH a good quote
A+++! I realize it’s way more work, but could we get a Junji Ito tier list at some point?
Yesssssssssss
Yes please!!!
Goddamn what an idea
omg yesss!!!
God yes 🙌
The story that freaked me out the most was “What was going on?” Which was about this woman who’s mother went missing while they were on vacation in Paris and everyone kept gaslighting her. I got so scared as a child that my mom was going to die of the plague and people would go out of their way to hide that from me
That story taught us all to never trust the government
Same - rather, I was a teen mum so my tastes coincided with my kids' & we were all scared from that story!!!
"Maybe You Will Remember?"
"High beams" was the one that got to me the most. When I was a kid I would check the back seat of the car before I got in and I still do that now lol. also I just avoid driving at night
My god. This one got me too.
YES omg
oh god i had an experience with some delusions/compulsive behavior at one point where i got it stuck in my head that there was a man who was in my backseat and i had to sing this one particular song at top volume or he was gonna kill me. i didn’t make the connection between the story and my compulsive behavior until now (luckily that only occurred for a few months and i haven’t had to deal with a repeat)
Oh my gosh, thats why I check the backseat! I almost forgot about that story, but I always check the back seat when I'm in a car with someone.
YES!
That little picture that fell off the wall at 12:05 scared me so bad
She’s just talking about death omens when it happens, not creepy at all...
She's fallen
You beat me to this comment congratulations
someones trying to tell her something
LOL I made that fan art I was hoping someone would notice 😭
I think the Scary Stories instalment that scared me the most as a child was "Maybe You'll Remember". It's a story about being gaslit by forces that are supposed to protect you, and involves the protagonist's mother basically vanishing off the face of the earth. That was a LOT for a 9 year old to have to take in...plus, having to turn to the back of the book for the extra explanation felt so eerie.
That one is terrifying
Right?? That appendix was unnerving
Even baby me was appalled about the ridiculous levels of emotional abuse that poor protag went through…yeesh.
That’s the only one of these stories that I genuinely can’t read. It hits way too close to home
that story was actually wild! the hotel staff went through SO MUCH to cover it up
I had the most vivid, realistic nightmare I think I've ever had about Harold when I was a kid. My mom had to take the book to work because if I saw Harold or the book that had it at all I'd start uncontrollably crying.
So did I! I had talk grass outside of my window and it made noises and night which had me convinced he was out there…the book was also confiscated lol.
Ngl I had the weirdest cultureshock reading this comment because I initially thought you meant Healthy Harold, the Australian program that runs in schools where a giraffe puppet teaches you how the body works and not to do drugs
Seriously, when they changed the artwork to be "less scary," I immediately thought of Harold and how the ending of that story is far worse than its artwork.
Harold was definitely the worst one for me. My child-brain gave me a super-fun nightmare that mashed Harold together with The Bad Babysitter from some RL Stine collection, I think; it basically involved me hearing a noise from the garage and going out only to see my real-life babysitter skinning the bodies of my parents 🙂
So no, I don’t think reading these books when I was 5 caused any significant psychological trauma
thank you for putting the catgirl next to the tier list so we dont get too scared.
[kronk voice] oh yeah, our childhood collective nightmares are all coming together
Commenting at the part where you said "each person has at least ONE" and I came here to say that for me, it was Harold. Wasn't too bad in the movie, but holy FUCK, even now Harold gets me
That ending fucked me up. Still does. I definitely had a nightmare about that one
Still haven't seen the film but Harold fucked me up for a LONG time as a kid
Good lord Harold is so scary 😢
You said everybody has one story/drawing from these books that *got* them, and I agree. I had a couple that got to me. One was definitely Oh Susannah!, but for some reason the story that scared me most was the one where the little girls are mean to their mom, so she leaves and gets replaced by a wooden mannequin creature with glass eyes and a tail. I don’t know why, I guess my mind just conjured a really scary mental image for the wooden creature.
Ugh, her glass eyes glistening in the firelight
This is actually the story that Coraline is based upon!
Oh Susannah was mine!!! Really freaked me out. Still get the heebie jeebies every now and then thinking about it
For me it was the lady ghost with a sad backstory, can't remember her name.
@@hdervish2497 and her wooden tail thumping!
Gosh, for me it was the woman with no eyes. The priest and the ghostly woman trying to figure out her murder. THE FULL PAGE ART OF HER EYELESS FUCKING HEAD scared me as a kid haha
I have a vivid memory of sitting ony bed with my sister and we turned the page to that art and literally three the book at the wall lmao
Yep that one still freaks me out
“Some dumbass stubs their toe and *I’m* supposed to give a shit?” Love that quote, Ma(e/y)
Ah yes my queen uploading at exactly 12:30 am and there’s an odd tapping at my window and I have an exam in 7 hours, how exciting !
Good luck!
I hope you do well!
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@@AxelStorm ty ty! I actually managed to shamble my brain together and I think it went well ;)
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The Window actually gave me a lifelong fear of being near windows at night. I remember spending the night at my aunt's house after I'd read it for the first time. I slept on the couch in her living room, which was right in front of a huge window looking out onto a dirt road and the woods behind it. Needless to say I did not rest easy lmao
My favorite story is “the Ghost with the Bloody Fingers”, purely for the ending where a very much implied to be high out of his mind guitarist tells a ghost to “chill man, get a bandaid”
Bess' lesson can be summarized with this phrase: One often meets his fate on the road he takes to avoid it.
ugh i was so terrified of the one where the vampire comes up through the window and kills that girl... when i was a kid my bedroom faced my backyard and it would be ridiculously easy for said vampire to climb up into it lol
The drawing of The Thing freaked me out as a child too, it was the only one that got to me. People also showed it to me because it scared me and they thought it was funny.
That's how I was with The Red Spot. Something about the way that girl's face was drawn... brrrr.
The best scary book series I read as a kid covered by UA-cams cutest goth gf? Sign me tf UP 🦇
That music sting with mushroom before every entry is insanely unsettling
Thank you! I'm really hating having to hear it repeatedly but I'm so excited for May's content I gotta keep going. 😭
Truly love just hearing her commentary on these stories that in retrospect are either way scarier than I remember or just like not at all that scary
The Green Scarf was my story that shook me as a child.
Same
Bruh… this one fucked me up
"The Drum" that features the mother with glass eyes and a wooden tail shook child-me to my absolute core. The imagery that conjured in my little mind and the thought of being abandoned in such a way was so deeply unsettling.
I can't believe you did Bloody Fingers dirty like that.
Slithery Dee is the best one IMO. Like a dark Dr. Seuss.
It's a shel Silverstein poem!
Welcome to WatchMay-jo, and today we'll be counting down the top scary stories to tell in the dark.
Everyone all hail the may queen
what are you doing awake bb??
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark turned book fair into something magical and dangerous, so therefore very cool. Once you find this book and it's sequels your little child mind spins out of control thinking about what other horrors might be bubbling just below the covers of these books being hocked to children by overworked librarians desperate for the paltry funds they can receive and use on their underfunded library by selling these nightmare manuals, how to draw guides, and Guinness World Records books to snot nosed brats.
I spent a couple hours home alone after school every day when I was a kid, so "Footsteps" really freaked me out because I could easily imagine being stuck in the house while someone, ghost out otherwise, walked around. It might seem silly now, but back then that story was the worst.
One of the ones that did it for me was Harold. The ending absolutely horrified me, and it wasn't helped by one of the homemade Halloween decorations my mom made the same year I first read the story.
My grandfather had recently died and we had a bunch of his old clothes and stuff, so my mom decided to make a scarecrow out of some of it. She used his old military duffel bag and stuffed it full of his old clothes. Then she dressed it in more of his old clothes, stuffing the limbs with (you guessed it!) more clothes. We didn't have anything to use as a head, so she just attached one of his old hats to where a neck stump would be and put it up in our yard for the next month. It looked like a horribly bloated and misshapen corpse because of how it was constructed, and I hated having to walk past it every time I left home or came back. It did not return as a decoration the next year.
The other big one was The Window because I lived walking distance from three graveyards, one of which was through the woods that one of my windows faced. I was just convinced that the same thing from that story would happen to me.
i loved these books so much. my favorite one was the hearse song! “don’t you ever laugh as the hearse goes by, for you may be the next to die” absolute genius! the one that stuck with me was from the third book though. “maybe you will remember”. god, the idea of a girls mother dying and then everyone gaslighting her to make her think she was going crazy to cover up the fact that her mom died of the plague… bone chilling.
“Oh Susana!!!” Used to get me. It was like what i wss afraid to see im my dreams…
I often think of that one when I should be asleep
Same!
The picture that always terrified me was somebody fell from aloft. I don’t know why I just find that picture deeply terrifying. It isn’t the one that scared me the most, that would be “maybe you will remember” but the picture scared me to my core
I would LOVE if you talked about House of Leaves, idc if it’s for two minutes in a tier list or it’s own video 🏠💙
MY QUEEN HAS POSTED. I left good mythical morning to watch this lol I’m ready
For about a week in third grade, I couldn't sleep because whenever I went to bed, I would remember The Thing and see it so clearly in my mind. And at least once I was reading the book in class to another kid to scare them, hit a certain illustration, then screamed and threw the book across the room.
I’m sorry to hear about other children tormenting you with a scary image. I had something very similar happen, but I was also a huge scaredy cat as a child. Instead of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, it was the last page of “The Green Ribbon” from In a Dark, Dark Room and other Scary Stories. Seeing that girl’s head fall off with no reading comprehension at age 6 made me think she was just killed.
I remember one boy kept shoving the page in my face. I was so scared, I kept my eyes closed that when the teacher came to confront me, I still thought the page was in front of me and screamed in her face. Yeah. She didn’t like me very much.
YES! A tier list for one of my favorite horror series! I know it isn't as scary as scary stories to tell in the dark, but can you do a goosebumps tier list?
The story that I always remember and that got just, stuck in my craw for most of my life was the one about the deli? butcher? the shop that sold ground beef but ohoho, turns out it was people all along. The imagery of an arm being ground up in a meat grinder just,,, really got to me.
The picture that scared me the most was the one that went with The Haunted House, I remember being fascinated by all of the pictures but when I got to that one it froze me to my core. I then rented that particular volume of scary stories from my elementary school's library several more times after, wanting really bad to get used to that picture and failing lmfao.
Ooh, I saw someone mention The Green Scarf, and that story too fucked me up, I was obsessed with that one as a kid.
I read these books as a kid, I think I was a bit too old to be properly scared of them. What did freak me out instead was this illustration of Gef the Talking Mongoose from a childrens encyclopedia of the paranormal. RIP Gef.
Rip. He truely was the eighth wonder
@@Lunar_Atronach Just a good boy living in the wall.
@@IsThatEtchas just an extra clever earthbound spirit
@@Lunar_Atronach Think he might be a ghost in the form of a mongoose.
Harold is the story that got me, and The Dream is the illustration that got me.
frankly overwhelmed with gratitude that u are taking on this task thank u may you are the only person i trust with this tier listing
I always love when May talks about Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
I always love when May talks
As a child, I literally couldn't look at the illustration of The Thing. It was the most horrific thing I had ever seen. I for some reason let the other boys in the class know just how scared I was of The Thing and they would try to scare me with it all the time, I think I was in 4th grade. But what was really dumb is I distinctly remember the kids misremembering the title of The Thing as IT, so they would go around yelling "IT" a lot at me and for some reason I myself started calling it IT too because I was too scared to let my memory retain even the title of that story. It wasn't the story that was scary, well, I never read the story till years later, the stories were nothing to me, it was always the illustrations. This specific illustration really kept me up at night. So did the idea of seeing a pair of legs coming out of my ceiling or that very strange floating ghost that was all white and barely retained a human shape, he had 2 round white eyes and a oval head. Jesus, to this day those were and will always be the best depiction of ghosts ever drawn. "Edit": I watched the full video, I had no idea you were going to tell the same exactly story I did about kids using that illustration to scare you, I am blown away somebody else had this happen to them too. wow
I used to sleep in a bunkbed with my sister, so "Oh! Susannah" _terrified_ me
The Voice used to terrify me since I slept in a room without a door that was right next to a staircase. Truly panic inducing lol
when i was in 4th grade we did a book swap and i got the scary stories with the limited edition holographic cover and i love it at first. however, the longer i had it, the longer it stared at me, and the more anxious i became. long story short, i traded it for charlottes web. (that summer i got the whole ssttitd collection and the anxiety never ceased)
Oh, you poor thing. That book traumatized me as a child too, but for completely different reasons! 😢
i told the big toe to my little brother when he was really little and when I grabbed him and yelled he started crying :[ can confirm these stories are scary to five or six year olds
Your eyeliner and hair slays in this video.
These books and stories really affected me quite positively and gave me a great sense of style and imagination, while coming to terms with mortality in a more or less age appropriate way
The "Me Tie Dough-ty Walker" story scarred me as a kid. Even thinking about it still gives me this low-level visceral fear. I recognize that it's not the scariest of the stories in retrospect, but reading it while home alone one night sitting in the living room next to the fireplace set me up perfectly to slip myself right into the protagonist's role.
I loved those books as a kid. I borrowed them from my library so much I got to “borrow them” again on my last day of elementary school
Bloody Fingers, an analysis. Sometimes you can have a problem so big it becomes self defining. Other people can see and respond to the problem the same way you do, maybe even the vast majority of people. Occasionally some outsider can come along with a different perspective and utterly gut your whole self defining issue with a statement so obvious and appropriate that once heard cannot be unheard. "Cool it man, get yourself a Band-Aid." ( I can see why this one might have missed) love your work, by the way. Keep it up.
12:03 lololol the little fanart going "whomp whomp"
Excited for another look into Scary Stories with May! I was wondering if you would ever do an update of the old video and I'm so glad you have!
The art from “The Thing” freaked me out a lot when I was a kid and that was the scariest story to me, too. Nothing better than a corpse crawling through a field of turnips. Honestly, it’s so vaguely written that I don’t know how I got so clear a mental image in my head.
I really appreciate these books and I love the artwork! I remember being so engrossed in one of the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books that I forgot the world around me, and I usually don't get into books that strongly.
You tackled this topic very well and I’m excited to see the rest of the tier list.
It’s also very interesting looking back on this entire series and _still_ be creeped out about it. Hearing you talking about “The Thing” brought back so many memories. The art style is just absolutely mind boggling. It’s so well done. I wonder if it’s also a mix of uncanny valley that makes these things creepy. Some of the drawings seem so human, but are distorted in a way that makes it... not?
I think I’m ranting a little too much. Amazing video! Great job!
Nuh, I was a mess of a child before the books. My parents let me watch horror movies and RHPS, I thought the covers were cool and liked the stories. My intro to them wasn't the main book series but the ones meant for younger kid. The one with the green ribbon.
In A Dark, Dark Room And Other Scary Stories was where I started, too! The green ribbon girl was named Jenny and so was my best friend so we loved reading that one together hah ha
That book fucked me up so bad dude
@@yourpalfred I found that book in my grandma's toy closet when I was a kid, with the read along record to match
GOD THE GREEN RIBBON FUCKED ME UP....
I found my ancient copy of scary stories and the spine was totally broken (to the point where the pages were falling out and most were missing) so I pulled out the ones with art printed on them and now I have the scary stories art on the walls of my room :)
You just made my Sunday ☺️ These just-vague-enough stories paired with Gammel's terrifying illustrations scarred my young mind in all the best ways and shaped my tastes forever.
And I ABSOLUTELY still think of that picture of The Thing when I'm walking alone at night
I had a full blown panic attack when I saw the Red Spot for the first time in 2nd grade. kids in my class would do the same thing to me and deliberately show it to me just to make me cry. My teacher had to ban the entire class from even checking out the series.
Is that the OOOF sound reverberating hauntingly upon each title screen?
I own a few old copies of these books, but oddly, I never really read them. Not to the point May did, analyzing them with an adult mind. They were too young for me in elementary school. Mainly, I kept them around for Stephen Gammell's amazing art. It was what encouraged me to study ink blowing. Still, I should really give the stories a second look. This was a fascinating analysis. May, why do you have to keep putting out these kickass longform videos? You're taking up all my free time!
It's ok, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark messed all us of up in some way.
Yes! I was so excited to watch this when I first saw you were working on a Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark tier list! I remember these books from my elementary school library and loving them!!
Every so often if I see Gammell's art, I end up quoting you with the, "what IS thyaaat??"
I too have similar memories, the shitty kids in grade school would chase me around with those books.
These started coming out when I was a kid. Years later, as an adult with my own kid, I got them on audio book so we'd have something to listen to while carving pumpkins. It was so funny. Since there was no art to see, the stories would often end in, "and RAAAAH".
When I was young I had Mario Paint on SNES, and I also had the Scary Stories books, so I decided to make animations of the scary story stories and I taped it on VHS. I still have the VHS and I havent watched it in like 25 years. I was a weird kid and most of my 'stories' I made up on Mario Paint ended with everyone in the world dying, or the world exploding. If I ever watch the VHS again, Ill send you the video May. Im sure you would be the only one fucked up enough to appreciate my childhood weirdness
Omg can’t wait for part two 🥺🥺 this makes me wanna re-read all the books
May, I've been waiting for another Scary Stories video for years. Thank you ❤️
As a child who was scared of everything (which I blame on my aunt who went a little too far for Halloween), anytime I saw these at the scholastic book fair I would steer so far away from them that I would cry if they were too close to me.
Found you through the disturbing movies iceberg, stuck around for your very fun onscreen personality and cool choice of topics. Big fan!
Oh I’m so happy to open up UA-cam and see you doing this series on this night. The Thing was also the one that got me really good, I couldn’t relate more to the rapid page turn lol. But as I’m sure we all know, the books were the gateway drug into morbid curiosity so I checked them all out from the library and had a traumatizing weekend. After that I was just obsessed, my friends and I made this Are You Afraid of the Dark type of group called something so similar like the “scary story society” lmfaoo. We even had drama with this other clique who called themselves the Bubble Girls. I still haven’t experienced more riveting drama. Anyways thank you so much for taking me down memory lane, these stories are why I am the way I am and if you really think about it, I can credit Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammel for leading me to your channel
What a pleasant surprise on my day off from work. Fantastic video!
Yay a new May video ranking my favorite childhood books! This has made my day so much better!
Love the hell out of your content hun, keep it comin!
I am HERE for May’s tier lists
I'm here for May's continuous strap adjustment. Every time she adjusts a strap or one slips out of place I take a drink. I'm now a broken alcoholic and a shadow of the man I used to be.
I'm glad I don't wear strapy clothing. Mostly because I don't have a neck, shoulders, or collar bone worth showing off. I'm not blessed with that porcelain like flawless skin like May. Do I even have a collar bone under all of this? Hard to say. I've never been good at math. Or bone awareness.
@@jeremysmith4620 I’m trans and back when I used to wear bras I would literally hate the straps so much. I don’t miss straps.
@@basicindiebro I had a goth period way back and spent a few years where my fashion sense would be anything I thought cool, wether it was typically considered gender specific clothing or not. I tried wearing something with straps once and that was one time too many. Fetish clothing was more comfortable than straps for me. I couldn't imagine dealing with a bra and those hellish straps. I shouldn't push my luck by saying anything, if I don't keep excercising and eating right I'm going to need one.
@@basicindiebro and also congratu-fucking-lations for being yourself and having the courage to do so. Being a little older, I'm so happy to see more trans people being able to really be themselves. Growing up a couple decades ago, in the Southern US, it sadly wasn't as prevalent and even less accepted and I saw many friends struggle. A myriad turned to drugs and alcohol to try to make their lives more bearable and adhere to some horrific "standards" their family or society tried to impose on them. So many friends lost. Hopefully it just keeps getting better from here if we all keep fighting the good fight.
My "the thing" was the bride from the 3rd(?) Book, God that art is harrowing
May once again cranking out these great videos
I thought my favorite story was in these books, but it turns out it is from a reading practice book by the same person. "The Green Ribbon" was, for some reason, a story I loved and do not remember actually being frightened by, haha.
you are the best everytime i see a new upload my heart drops and i stop everything that i'm doing 😃
This video is deeply cathartic and sweet to me, I needed this so much, thank you May, you amazing woman
i've been waiting for this one!!!
I know chances are very low that you'll see this, bit you should absolutely check out the "Bad Ben" series. They are these zero budget found footage films that are kind of unwatchable in a really funny way. I'd love to see you do something similar to what you did with the hell house movies. I love your videos!!!
She'll check it out. She reads all of these.
Finally someone as ruined as me with similar childhood experiences. Love this video and your content!!!
love you mayyyyyy❤️ ur the best, thank u for this!
Despite the art scaring me as a kid, I borrowed these from my school library all the time. A few years ago, I found out they'd been reissued with the ORIGINAL art, so I bought two copies of the box set. one for myself for nostalgia, and one for my son (who doesn't live with me), who was just starting to get interested in horror stuff.
IIRC there was a video game that was basically Thumpity-Thump. Specifically, that game was Kitty Horrorshow's "Anatomy". Well worth a play if you're into spooky slow-burns.
"What happens to a house when it is left alone? When it becomes worn and aged, when its paint peels, and its foundations begin to sink...?"
I was known as that creepy child in elementary school so I would scare the shit out of people walking past me, just showing them the book cover, I’m the one that gave you all childhood trauma, you’re welcome
I very vividly remember the 3rd book cover as a kid making me so viscerally uncomfortable, that I had to have it laying face down at all times
Your uploads always light up my day!! 😊💗🌟
As a German I never read Scary Stories to read In the Dark as a kid (Goosebumps and Fear Street and all that was available over here) but I always thought the artwork was dope. My own baggage comes from a moment where the sister of my best friend told us a variation of that Poe story of the guy who gets hypnotized at the moment of death and it follows me till this day hhhhh (this comment is mostly for the algorythm for Mae but also for anyone who might relate)
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE
My elementary school art teacher used to read these books aloud to us, but he'd change the character's name in the story to a random student's name. :( I remember I was picked for the Oh Susannah one.