Reddit reviews In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories (I Can Read! Reading 2)

In a Dark, Dark Room by Alvin Schwartz.

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Other-Scary-Stories-Reading/dp/0064440907/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1335415715&sr=8-7

No, but the "Jenny and Alfred" version is also by Alvin Shwartz, who wrote those. The book mentioned in the article above (and likely the one OP remembers) is this one.

That story is in In a Dark, Dark Room.

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Other-Scary-Stories-Reading/dp/0064440907

With an easy Google search, I think I've found what you're looking for:

In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz

the 1 star reviews on amazon are pretty fun...

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Other-Scary-Stories-Reading/product-reviews/0064440907/ref=cm_cr_dp_qt_hist_one?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0

Is it possibly "In a Dark, Dark Room"?
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Other-Scary-Stories-Reading/dp/0064440907#

I was truly unsettled by Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle. It's an incredible book - understated, quirky, sad, scary.

Not a book, but Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" is hands-down the most chilling story I've ever read. Scarier than any book I've read, certainly.

& from my childhood, In a Dark, Dark Room by Alvin Schwartz freaked the crap out of me. They're so simple but so scary, like one story about men in trench coats with really long teeth, & one about a girl whose ribbon choker held her head on.

I think that is actually from this book.

In A Dark, Dark Room and other scary stories, by Alvin Schwartz. The story you want is the titular one, 'In a Dark, Dark Room.'

Happy haunting!

In A Dark Dark Room And Other Scary Stories?

edit: I guess that's part of the same Scary Stories series you said wasn't it.

What about The Thing at the Foot of the Bed

In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories, maybe? It was my favorite from grade school.

That one's from In a Dark, Dark Room, also by Alvin Schwartz. That and the books above were my intro to horror. Such a huge part of my childhood.

In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories?

Hey, infants and toddlers need books too!

Yummy Yucky was a favourite in our house. So were Dinosaur vs Bedtime and Goodnight Gorilla.

Getting a little bit older, my kids loved all the Arnold Lobel books and so did I. They were/are among the very few of my kids' books that I never ever got tired of reading over and over again, night after night.

Personally I loved the Madeline books and the Babar books, my daughter liked them but I could never get my son into them.

This was a huge favourite for both my kids in the toddler/preschool years. I can still recite some of those stories from memory (and do).

The original Thomas the Tank Engine stories are really charming. If your nephew ends up taking an interest in trains and that sort of thing, this is a gorgeous book.

eta: almost forgot: Maurice Sendak is essential. My kids can both recite Chicken Soup with Rice from beginning to end.

Was it this book?

In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories?

Was it this?

https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Other-Scary-Stories-Reading/dp/0064440907

Sounds kind of like Bony-Legs? https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/books/bony-legs-by-joanna-cole/

Or possibly something from In a Dark Dark Room and other scary stories? Couldn’t find a quick summary of the stories but might be worth a look. https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Other-Scary-Stories-Reading/dp/0064440907

In a Dark Dark Room

Scariest thing I read. I was 7 though and I was reading it at the mall as my mom was shopping.

When I first read this I thought it was In a Dark Dark Room. There are a bunch of creepy stories for kids and I'm pretty sure the last story in the book had the part you are talking about with the ghost.

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Room-Other-Scary-Stories/dp/0064440907

Yeah... For anyone who doesn't know, just click here.

This one was another one of my favorites as a kid.

Remember this one too? It also scared the bejeesus out of me.

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Room-Other-Scary-Stories/dp/0064440907

That was actually from Schwartz's other collection "In a Dark, Dark Room."