Which Aliens scared you as a kid...

Leigh S · 27 January, 2006, 09:21:14 PM

Most evil book ever

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Carlsborg Expert · 27 January, 2006, 09:23:55 PM

I actually wouldn't mind reading that Watch.

House of Usher · 27 January, 2006, 09:35:16 PM

Aww, Struwwelpeter's lovely! I treasure my copy, which I bought in a charity shop and must be a little older than me.

I must admit though, the fully painted Peter in the front of that specimen looks less friendly than the line drawing in my version.

The Tale of Little Suck-a-Thumb is a bit of mean thing to tell to children who suck their thimbs though.

Follow this link and you can read the whole thing.

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Quirkafleeg · 27 January, 2006, 09:35:55 PM

I actually saw some of 2003 version of Carrie's War by accident (think it was repeated at Christmas or something). 'Mr Johnny' had been toned down a hell of a lot from the original...

Oddboy · 27 January, 2006, 09:40:26 PM

Naughty, romping girls and boys
Tear their clothes and make a noise,

BAN THIS FILTH!

House of Usher · 27 January, 2006, 09:43:23 PM

On the contrary, it is full of sound lessons for the education and improvement of young persons as regards their hygiene and manners!

;-)

hag · 27 January, 2006, 09:44:47 PM

there was some kids book about a wood and a big black panter monster being in it. there was some girl as the main character, i remember she hid under her cloak from him.

there was many a times when i was a kid on holiday in sweden where i was left to walk home alone at dusk through the woods and was fffing terrified.

hag · 27 January, 2006, 09:47:35 PM

also my mum had some kids book about this cat and a boy ( the boy rode about on the cats back), at one point they ate too much saft and bulla and their tummies exploded and had to be sew up.

what kinda imagery is that for kids?

Quirkafleeg · 27 January, 2006, 10:10:19 PM

Some of Edward Lear's poems are well nasty... it's now all Owl and the Pussycat. I particularly remember one that was a warning about playing with matches that had a little girl burning herself to death. With illustrations. And another about playing with scissors that involved fingers being chopped off.

DavidXBrunt · 27 January, 2006, 11:22:13 PM

Obscurely there was a Q.E.D. on Spontaneous Human Combustion that freaked me out, along with Ghostwatch and...

Wurzel Gumidge.

Matt Timson · 27 January, 2006, 11:51:10 PM

Space 1999 episode with Ian McShane. He was this horribly burned up thing with glowing eyes- freaked me right out.

Carlsborg Expert · 28 January, 2006, 12:12:28 AM

This barbarism is certainly high on the, 'chilling one out of bad habits' scale.

On a par with showing smokers a dismembered lung!

Classic, I remember the old ones whispering it to me in conspiring tones as a child.

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