With haunting illustrations from Stephen Gammell, you can read these stories on your own or aloud around the campfire. Horror, dark revenge, supernatural events - these tales will stick with you. Playing on our most common and fundamental fears, you’re going to want to read this book with the lights on. The souls of these unfortunate ones will burn in torment as Bloody Mary once was burned as they will forever be trapped in the mirror.Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is the first in a three-book anthology of creepy stories for readers ages eight and up. It is said she will tear their bodies to pieces and rip their souls from their mutilated bodies. She had used their blood to make her young again.įrom that day on, anyone foolish enough to chant Bloody Mary's name three times before a darkened mirror, will summon the vengeful spirit of the witch. When she was dead, the villagers went to the house in the woods and found the unmarked graves of the little girls the evil witch had murdered. If anyone mentioned her name aloud before a mirror, she would send her spirit to revenge herself upon them for her terrible death. The angry townsmen leapt upon her and carried her back into the field, where they built a huge bonfire and burned her at the stake.Īs she burned, Bloody Mary screamed a curse at the villagers. The bullet hit Bloody Mary in the hip and she fell to the ground. The far-sighted farmer had loaded his gun with silver bullets, in case the witch ever came after his daughter. When she heard the commotion, Bloody Mary broke off her spell and fled back into the woods. The townsmen grabbed their guns, their pitchforks and ran towards the witch. she was glowing with an unearthly light as she set her evil spell upon the miller's daughter. A few townsmen followed him out into the field and saw Bloody Mary standing beside a large oak tree, holding a magic wand that was pointed towards the miller's house. Suddenly, a sharp-eyed farmer have a shout and pointed towards a strange light at the edge of the woods. The desperate cries of the miller and his wife woke the neighbours. Together, they tried to restrain the girl, but she kept breaking away from them and heading out of town. The miller came running in his nightshirt. She screamed for her husband and followed the girl out of the door. The miller's wife had a toothache and was sitting up in the kitchen treating the tooth with a herbal remedy when her daughter left her house. Then came the night when the daughter of miller, rose from her bed and walked outside, following an enchanted sound no one else could hear.
The neighbours were suspicious, but they could find no proof the witch had taken their young ones. Still, it was noted that her haggard appearance had changed. A few brave souls even went to Bloody Mary's home in the woods to see if the witch had taken the girls, but she denied any knowledge of the disappearances. Grief-stricken families searched the woods, the local buildings and all the houses and barns, but there was no sign of the missing girls. No one could find out where they had gone. Then the little girls in the village began to disappear, one by one. No one dared cross the old crone for fear that their cows would go dry, their food-stores rot away before winter, their children get sick of fever or any number of terrible things that an angry witch could do to her neighbours. Folks living in the town nearby called her Bloody Mary and said she was a witch. She lived deep in the forest in a tiny cottage and sold herbal remedies for a living.
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