This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. I remember the first time I encountered Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
"A good scary book thrills in a way no other genre can quite match, it simply demands to be read," says children's horror author Rachel Burge as I interview her, appropriately enough, on Halloween.
Two of his most recent are from the horror genre. Van Camp said traditional storytellers were telling stories to keep children safe, and a lot of the stories youth are told are about respect ...