The Books Briefing: How Horror Stories Empower Kids
Gruesome novels and chilling tales about ghoulish monsters and other dangers: Your weekly guide to the best in books
When he was just 4 years old, the author and illustrator Maurice Sendak caught a glance of a horrifying photo depicting the remains of Charles Lindbergh’s murdered son. A mutated version of the image reappeared decades later in Sendak’s chilling children’s book Outside Over There, in which goblins replace a baby with a changeling made of ice.
From gruesome fairy tales to macabre Victorian fantasy, . R. L. Stine’s blockbuster series raises hairs, a tale by the author N. D. Wilson about , petrifies the kids who read it.
