Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

The dead woman gets her finger cut off by a poor man. He brings the finger home to cook it. He eats it for dinner. He goes to bed, but he hears a noise. It's a hoarse voice, coming closer and closer, saying, "WHERE IS MY FINGER?"  Everything in his room clatters and clutters. They clink and clank. The voice comes closer and now the man hears footsteps. "WHERE IS MY FINGER?" Suddenly the locked door flies open and the corpse of woman enters. She points at the man. "YOU HAVE IT!" 

The book includes tales like these. But not all of them are similar to the corpse-coming-back theme. Some of them are about hitchhikers who are actually ghosts. They come back for a date and the go home by hitchhiking with their date. Their date forget something from them, and go back, only to find the person dead.  And speaking of dates, there are stories of ones that have gone horribly wrong. One may have a hook. A bloody hook. There are different types of tales. 

Do you believe in them? That's up to you. I'm more logical. These stories might have been made up to teach children a lesson. Or they have been made up for entertainment. Some people might believe in them. But people can be scared very easily. During a storm, winds blow so fast, they sound ghostly. Storms make trees move, which might cause branches to knock on your window. So to the ones who are easily scared, it might sound like a ghost is walking around in your house and calling you. Maybe this is why a typical scary story is set to take place during a storm.