The Books That TRAUMATIZED a Generation... (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark)

Añadido: 2026-05-17

[00:00:08]Hey creeps, Cameron here. Welcome back to Library of Macob. It's a very, very stormy day and I thought, what better time than to talk about one of my very favorite things in the whole world and that is scary stories. Specifically, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. The Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series by Alvin Schwarz and illustrated by Steven Gaml is one of my most influential book series, probably just outside of Goosebumps. Yes, I talk about Goosebumps a lot on this channel. I talk about Fear Street. I talk about other spooky book series from my childhood, but rarely do I talk about scary stories to tell in the dark. And I'm not really sure why. I mean, there's really nothing more influential to me than these creepy little books that uh almost traumatized me as a kid, but in a good way. When I talk about being traumatized by these books in this video, I mean that as in it spooked me and it it definitely got in my head and it made me afraid to go get water in the middle of the night cuz I was always worried one of the ghostly creatures from this book was going to come out of the shadows while I was standing at the fridge and eat me or something. I don't know. I was always a little bit afraid, but it was a a fun kind of fear because I knew it wasn't real. But I don't want to get too ahead of myself because uh here on the channel, like I said, I've not really talked about scary stories to tell in the dark as much, but that doesn't mean I haven't talked about these books. In fact, I have adapted some of these stories into kind of short films on my channel in the past. One of them, The Big Toe, is among one of my most popular videos here on the channel. We'll talk a little bit more about those short films here uh very soon. But let's talk a little bit about my history with these books. It goes all the way back to the school library. Actually, I would go to the library every week with my class and these were the books that everybody fought over. And the school library only had a couple copies of each. So, it made it a little bit harder to check these out from the library. And I remember us kids waring over these books. We would battle over them and fight over them to the point that the teachers or the school librarian would have to step in and try to break it up and say, "Okay, how are we going to get this book into the hands of all these kids? There's going to have to be some kind of waiting list. You take it now, you take it next week, that sort of thing." And I wanted to check these books out every single week. So eventually, I just convinced my parents to buy copies for me because I needed them for myself. I needed to be able to read them whenever I wanted. I I would read this book and then immediately start over. I would go through and pick out my favorite stories in these books to tell to my friends, to tell to my siblings. I was the middle child of a bunch of siblings. So, this book really came in handy for scaring all of my younger siblings. And I say this book, I do have, of course, the other books in the series here. We've got more scary stories to tell in the dark and scary stories three. These were all just my favorite favorite books growing up. Goosebumps never scared me.

[00:03:06]I was never really afraid of Goosebumps except for maybe Welcome to Dead House.

[00:03:11]That one kind of scared me. The other ones, they were pretty innocent. I just thought they were fun. These scared me.

[00:03:17]It was scary from the illustrations to the stories themselves. It's not just the illustrations, guys. People go on and on about the illustrations in these books. And yes, they are scary, but the stories are also really truly scary. So, other than checking these books out from my school library, of course, I I often read these books under the covers at night with a flashlight. That's kind of how you're supposed to experience scary books like this. I also lived in a house that had a basement, and the basement when I was a kid was mostly unfinished.

[00:03:48]it's been finished in recent years. But I would go down in the basement with my siblings and we would turn off all the lights and I would have only a flashlight and I would read these stories to my siblings and we would get so freaked out. I think these books are kind of what taught me to be a scamp.

[00:04:06]And and this is something that I'm I've often been called throughout my life.

[00:04:09]People are always like, "Oh, you are such a scamp." Because I'm always scaring people. I'm always scaring my siblings. I was always scaring my co-workers. I'm always scaring everybody who becomes close to me. It's almost like a right of passage with me. Like, if you're going to become my friend, you need to survive me scaring you. Some people will say, "H Cameron, that's really jerky." Maybe, but also it's just fun. And most people uh they jump and they get scared and then they laugh because it's funny and it gives you stories to tell later. And I think I learned that from this book because there's like the early chapter here is called ah you got this guy screaming.

[00:04:49]And the reason why it's called ah is because at the end of each story you're supposed to say ah and jump at your your your friend that you're telling the story to and scare them. It's encouraged by this book. And I learned that early on that if you are telling a story in a really slow and spooky voice and then you jump and scream, everybody else jumps and screams. It's like a validation. They were into how I was telling the story. And that of course is the whole point of this book. It's scary stories to tell in the dark. This is almost like a stage play. It's not just meant to be read. It's meant to be reenacted. I remember taking my Scary Stories Treasury here, which is a hardcover bindup. And as you can see, I've marked a lot of stories and illustrations to go over in this video.

[00:05:36]I remember taking this to camp with me and uh me and my friends were staying in a cabin together and I was telling a couple of the stories in this book and one of them required me to scream. Man, if I didn't scar Troy Marcowski for life. Sorry Troy, if you're watching this, I'm sorry for scaring you. That was such a pivotal moment of my camping experience was telling that story and scaring everybody in my cabin the way I did. Uh, and it made me feel kind of good. It made me feel like I was a good storyteller. Anyway, these aren't the only books that were popular in my school library. We also had scary stories for sleepovers and a ton of other books just like this. I'm not going to talk about this book or this series or any other series like it in this video. This is just about scary stories to tell in the dark because I could talk about these books forever.

[00:06:22]I'm going to have another video coming up very soon all about scary stories for sleepovers. So, before any of you jump in the comments and say, "Cameron, did you know about scary stories for sleepovers?" Yes, of course I did. I loved these books and I will talk about them a lot more coming up very soon on my channel, so stay tuned. Before we get into the actual stories and my experiences with them, let's talk a little bit about the two masterminds behind these books that traumatized an entire generation of children. First up, you have Alvin Schwarz, the man who started it all. He was the author of these books. Alvin Schwarz was born in Brooklyn in 1927, and he was a journalist, but he had an immense interest in folklore when he started his career of being an author instead of just a journalist. He didn't start right into scary stories. He actually started earlier than that with other books of folklore. So, this is actually his fourth book. It's called Whoppers, Tall Tales and Other Lies collected by Alvin Schwarz. These are tales of American folklore. As you can see, they don't have illustrations by Steven Gaml. That was uh much much later. He wrote many books. I think he wrote 10 books before he ever wrote Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. After the success of the first Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark book, he continued to write other kinds of books, including some other spooky ones.

[00:07:43]So there was like in a dark dark room for instance which yes we will be talking about in this video. He wrote ghosts ghostly tales from folklore. This is another one that we will be talking about a little bit later. So even though he is mostly known for scary stories to tell in the dark he had a huge career with many many books. So I do recommend going and checking out his other works if you haven't. They're they're actually really good. Next up you've got Steven Gaml who is of course the the artist the illustrator of the scary stories books.

[00:08:13]Steven Gaml was born in 1943, the same year as RL Stein. Actually, he was the illustrator of nearly 70 books, including nine that he actually authored himself. He, of course, is known for his unsettling, surreal art style, and even his picture books that aren't actually spooky are still kind of spooky because of his illustrations. Like, for instance, there's a book here that he actually wrote and illustrated. This is called Is That You, Winter? It's just a picture book for kids. It's not scary.

[00:08:43]There's nothing scary in this book. But as you could see, his art style is still just a touch spooky. It's colorful and innocent, yes, but it's also very scratchy and kind of eerie at the same time. Almost dreamlike in a way. The earliest book that I own that he contributed art to is The Wicked One.

[00:09:02]This is by Molly Hunter. It's a story of suspense. It's a novel. And uh he of course didn't write this. He didn't even do illustrations for the interior. He just did the cover art, which as you can see is very striking and very spooky. I just recently found a copy of this and I was very lucky to find a signed copy.

[00:09:23]There are many other books that he wrote and did stories for. Of course, not all of them are spooky, but some of the other spooky stories are ghosts by Seymour Simon. This was published in 1976.

[00:09:34]Includes a lot of really, really wonderful spooky illustrations. The ghost of Tilly Jean Cassaway from 1978.

[00:09:43]Another one that has some very unsettling pictures. Leo Possessed in 1979.

[00:09:50]Very spooky. I would love to get copies of all of these books. He also did art for books called Meet the Werewolf and Meet the Vampire. These were both published in the 70s.

[00:10:08]So his previous work definitely made him a great candidate for scary stories to tell in the dark. And that is what really launched his career is uh doing the artwork for these books and really put him on the map. He continued to do artwork for other books, not just scary stories to tell in the dark. A couple of examples I have here are Thanksgiving poems from 1985. It's not a book of scary poems. It's just books about Thanksgiving. But as you can see, the illustrations are still very scary and unsettling. And this was why he was the perfect choice for Halloween poems that came in 1989. So, a few years later, uh, which are very just simply scary illustrations. He didn't have to hold back. He could just go full crazy with these illustrations. I love this book. I wish I had a copy. I've checked it out from the library multiple times. I've read the poems. They're great. The artwork is incredible. But the book itself is very valuable and very expensive to get a copy of, so I don't have one yet. One day I will find a good price though. Anyway, back to Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. I want to take some time to go through some of these illustrations and some of these stories and highlight the ones that really made a big impact on me. And it all starts really with this illustration here at the very beginning of the first book. As you can see, it's just this weird illustration of this house that's kind of floating in the sky. As you can see, the moon is located just below this house. And then there's a rocking chair that looks like it's on the ground. So again, you've got this surreal almost nightmarish look to the entire illustration. And that's just the very first one in the book. So you immediately know what you're getting yourself into. Another thing I'd like to point out is that all of Steven Gaml's illustrations tend to have these little tendrils coming off of them like like weeds rowing off of everything. There's that illustration of this wheelchair on the dedication page. And they don't make books like this anymore, guys. They don't make books that have illustrations just for the dedication. Just so rare to see. I just noticed that there's a a window shadow, like a window silhouette, almost like the wheelchair is a house.

[00:12:24]Like, there's no window here, so why is there a window shadow? It's just those weird touches that make it so effective and so creepy. So, the very first story in the first book is called The Big Toe.

[00:12:36]Classic, classic story right here. I did adapt it for YouTube. If you want to see it, I'll put a little clip here. A boy was digging at the edge of the garden, in this case a 20-some year old man, when he saw a big toe.

[00:13:03]I tried to stay very true to the art style of scary stories and in fact the uh illustration here I tried my best to replicate for the short film. So, The Big Toe is of course about a kid who finds a big toe in his garden and he takes it to his mother. They put it in a soup. They eat it. Why? I don't know.

[00:13:23]They just do. They don't even think about it. They just think, "Oh, this looks very tasty." And they eat it. And then, of course, the ghost uh who owned the big toe is coming back from the grave looking for his big toe. But the scariest part to me of these stories was what what happens after the story is over? Does the ghost cut the boy's belly open and take his toe? That scared me more than anything was imagining what could happen once the page is turned.

[00:13:49]Another one that I really loved was What Do You Come for? It's about a woman who's alone in her in her house at night and this man comes down the chimney. A bunch of pieces of this man, the the pieces reconnect together and he starts dancing around the room. She asks, "What do you come for?" And he says, "I come for you." And that's where you jump at your friends and scare the absolute Jesus out of them. And very similar, you've got another story with a chimney included. This is called Mai Doy Walker.

[00:14:19]And it's about this house where it's said that every single night a bloody head falls from the chimney. So a kid is dared by his friends to go into the house and spend the night there. And he is with his dog. Uh he hears this voice calling from the woods saying, "Me, Tai, Dodie, Walker." It gets closer and closer and every time the voice says this chant, his dog then replies and says, "Mei, kichi, collie, molly, dingo, dingo." And then, of course, the head falls from the chimney. It rolls across the floor, scares the dog to death. The dog literally drops over from fright.

[00:14:53]The head looks up at the boy and screams, "Oh," and I would get so into telling this story. I remember telling it to my siblings in the basement with all the lights out and I would just be yelling these lines, Mii, Ki, Collie, Molly, Dingo, Dingo. And they would be like, "Stop it. You're scaring me." And that of course would encourage me to make it even louder and even scarier.

[00:15:16]the thing, guys. Not only did this illustration truly, truly scare me to death. It's just something about those sunken eyes and those big grinning teeth, but the story is also very frightening. So, you got a couple of friends who are hanging out one day and they witness this this thing crawling out of a field and it starts to come toward them and they see its face and it's this thing. They get scared. They take off running. Many years later, the two friends are still haunted by it. In fact, the other friend is now sick and on his deathbed. And when the friend comes to visit, he sees that his dead friend looks the same as the thing that they saw in the field. So, it was some kind of dark omen. Gives me chills. I get chills right now just talking about it. You can see I got goosebumps. Maybe you can't see, but I have goosebumps.

[00:16:05]Just take my word for it. The haunted house is a really wonderful story. And and of course, it's it's this illustration here, which was my favorite favorite illustration in the whole book.

[00:16:14]scared me to death. This woman with no eyeballs. It's so freaking scary. I would be sitting in my classroom. All the lights are on. I'm staring at this picture and it didn't matter that I was surrounded by other students and that it was daylight and the lights were on in the room. This would draw me in so much and it would make me feel like I was in a dark scary house coming face to face with this eyeless woman.

[00:16:49]Now, the girl who stood on a grave is a very simple story, but it used to just give me chills. It's about a girl who goes into a cemetery. She's dared to go into a cemetery and stand on this supposedly haunted grave. She has to put a knife into the ground. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:17:05]They want her to stick a knife into the ground so they know that she was there.

[00:17:09]But when she sticks the knife into the ground, she accidentally pins her dress to the grave. And she thinks that something has reached out of the grave to grab her and it scares her so bad that she dies of fright. So there's nothing actually supernatural about it.

[00:17:23]It's just it really tells you about the power of fear. The dead man's brains. So this is actually not a story. It's a game. My little brother and I did this game on my channel years ago. Like god, probably 12 years ago now. I'll post the link down below so you can go and check it out. It was a lot of fun. He's in his early 20s now. He was I don't know 10 years old when we did this game, but boy, he was ruthless. He made it very hard for me. We've got a whole section here just about urban legends. So these are a little more current stories. So the hook is of course a very famous one.

[00:17:59]high beams about the the killer in the back seat and the the driver behind her is turning on his high beams and she thinks that he's the threatening one, but really he's trying to show her that there's someone with a knife in her back seat. The babysitter, the calls are coming from inside the house. We all know of the babysitter story. The Viper is another one that's very special to me. Uh I I love the story because it's so funny. There's a good punchline at the end. And I actually adapted this story into a short film, which again I I'll post a little bit of it here so you can see, but there is a link down below where you can see the full uh the full video. Uh and yes, I do play the Viper.

[00:18:39]And yes, that is me under all of that makeup. Starting off with book number two, more scary stories to tell in the dark. On the dedication page, you really just have a severed head hanging from a clothesline. Like I said, something about these books and severed heads. I will be totally honest with you guys. I feel like the first book, the first scary stories book. Here's my copy uh right here. I feel this is the strongest book. This is the one that has the most amount of just iconic stories, the ones that I return to the most. The the next two books, they are also really good and they have a lot of fun stories. And of course, the illustrations are just amazing. But neither of the sequels are quite as consistently good as the first one. My personal opinion, I know some people might disagree. I would say that actually the the cover for Scary Stories 3 is my favorite. I love this weird creature on the front cover. But when it comes to the meat of the stories themselves, I just feel like the first book has a lot of the best ones. But I will say the story, Clicketity Clack, traumatized me. This story scared me so much. It's almost the same as The Big Toe. You've got this person who steals the coins off of the eyes of a corpse.

[00:19:51]As you probably know, back in the day, they would put coins over a corpse's eyes to keep their eyes closed. He ends up stealing the coins from a dead woman's eyes, taking them home. the coins begin to shake in in this little chest as he's trying to sleep and then you hear the the moaning of a ghostly voice coming through the woods, coming to his house to take the coins back. So, it's it's very very much the same as Big Toe, but the the illustration like that, oh my god, that scared me so bad.

[00:20:22]Wonderful. Sausage is a really truly just disgusting illustration, but the story itself is also very disgusting about a bunch of kids and adults and and pets that are going missing in town. And there's this butcher in town that serves the most wonderful tasting sausage. You come to find out that the sausage is actually made of all of the missing people and children and pets. The town's folk then end up going after the man, and it ends with, "No one knows for sure just what happened to Blunt that day."

[00:20:50]Some say he was fed to the hogs. Others say he was fed to his sausage grinder, but he was never seen again, and neither was his wonderful sausage meat. It's just so icky.

[00:21:02]Oh, Susanna, this one, God, really creeps me out. It's about a girl in college who comes to her dorm room one night after studying at the library late and she finds that all the lights in the dorm are turned off and her roommate is asleep in bed. She gets in bed, doesn't turn on the lights because she doesn't want to wake up her roommate. Then she keeps hearing her roommate singing in the darkness, singing, "Oh, Susanna."

[00:21:26]And she keeps telling her roommate, "Shut up. I'm trying to sleep. Won't you knock it off?" Finally, after the roommate keeps on singing this song, you got your main character jumping out of bed in anger. She turns on the lights.

[00:21:38]She throws the blanket off of her roommate to ask her what is up. Jane's head was gone. Somebody had cut off her head. "I'm having a nightmare," Susanna told herself. when I wake up, everything will be all right. That's how it ends.

[00:21:52]But of course, the wheels in my childhood brain would start turning and thinking, is the killer, the one who cut off the roommate's head, still in the bedroom, and is that them singing the song?

[00:22:06]So creepy. Everybody knows the story about Harold and Scary Stories 3. It's definitely the best story of Scary Stories 3, in my opinion. So gruesome, so eerie. the dream. Uh, the story itself, it never really scared me much except for this illustration. This illustration is so unsettling. I don't know what that is. I don't know what this woman is. What What is she like? Is she Is she wearing anything or is she naked? You can't tell. It's almost like some demonic manifestation where they're trying to seem human, but they don't really know what a human looks like. And then, of course, there's the red spot about the girl who has the spiders uh planted in her cheek. and on and on it goes. These stories, these illustrations stuck in my head so much as a kid to the point where I would, like I said, be afraid to get up in the middle of the night to go to the kitchen for a glass of water. But yet, even though these stories made me afraid, I just kept coming back for more. I couldn't stop.

[00:23:05]Even though I was scared, I felt a sense of adrenaline, a sense of bravery for reading these books. And I think it's made me into a braver person nowadays.

[00:23:15]Now I know these books by heart and they don't really scare me as much as they once did. And that's not to say they aren't scary stories. They are. It's just I've kind of become desensitized to that fear. I'm still afraid of things.

[00:23:27]But what I'm afraid of are are real life things and the things that I find in fiction, in movies and books, they're not as effective. They don't work on me quite as much. I just think they're fun and enjoyable. And I don't really go into horror with the intention of being scared. In fact, I feel like I'm watching the Muppets or something. It's like it's a comforting uh sense of coming home. And that's how these books are for me now. And of course, I take a lot of the things that I learned from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, the things that I learned from Goosebumps, and I apply them to my own writing in hopes that I'm going to scare people the way these books once scared me. Now, like I said, I am going to talk a little bit about In a Dark, dark room. Now, this is an I can read book. So, it's an easy reader. It's, as you can see, much shorter than scary stories. The stories themselves are very, very simple.

[00:24:18]They're written in plain English with very short sentences, so that way younger kids can read them. And these are not actually illustrated by Steven Gaml. The illustrator is Dirk Zimmer.

[00:24:27]And my copy is actually signed by the illustrator from 1984. And this is also a first edition, first printing of the book. So, a very, very valuable piece of my collection that I'm really glad to have. This book was also a really big influence to me. It's not quite as scary as scary stories to tell in the dark.

[00:24:48]Obviously, it is aimed at much younger kids, but everybody knows about the green ribbon story. The green ribbon about a girl who uh is in love with this boy in town, and she's always wearing a green ribbon around her neck. The boy keeps asking her, "What is this ribbon?"

[00:25:04]She says, "I will tell you one day. I will tell you one day." They end up growing up. They get married and then they spend a whole life together. He's constantly asking her about this ribbon.

[00:25:12]She will not tell him what it is or why she wears it until finally she's on her deathbed and she says, "Okay, I will tell you now. Untie the ribbon and you will see why I wear it." He unties the ribbon and her head falls off. You guys know, uh, I was a bookmobile librarian for 10 years. I worked with a lot of children and they would often come to me and say, "Do you have that book where the girl's head falls off?" So, I would hand them the book. I just think it's so special that even to this day, all these years later, kids still know about these stories. Then you've got ghosts, ghostly tales from folklore. This was a little bit later. This came out in 1991, and I did grow up reading this book as well.

[00:25:50]It's definitely a little more innocent.

[00:25:52]The illustrations, as you can see, they're done by Victoria Chess. The illustrations are a lot more kid-friendly, I would say. And thus, the book didn't really have quite the same effect on me as it did uh the other ones, but I still loved checking this out from the library and reading it every Halloween season. Now, there are other scary stories memories that I could talk about. For instance, there is the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark movie, which I have here on 4K. I remember being so excited for this to come out because I was such a huge fan of the books all my life. And the fact that they were finally making a movie of this of these stories was so exciting to me. So, I went to the theater and and I had seen the trailers, so I had my expectations adjusted. I knew it wasn't going to be an anthology movie. It was a single story that's kind of built around these stories and connects all of them together. Sure, it's not exactly what I would have done for a movie adaptation, but I think they actually did it pretty well with the script that they had. and the images from the film are all pulled pretty much directly from the illustrations. I also highly recommend the Scary Stories documentary. This is a documentary all about the books, all about Steven Gaml and Alvin Schwarz and the the longl lasting legacy of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. It's really just a celebration of the books. I think it's a great documentary. Now, here's something I haven't read. I need to read this. This is Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: The Haunted Notebook of Sarah Bellowos. Sarah Bellowos is a character in the movie. She's not a character in the books. She's made up exclusively for the movie, which I think was kind of silly. You've got all of these stories to work with and yet you still make up a character for the movies. I just I don't get it. Anyway, this is a a notebook that kind of pairs well with the movie.

[00:27:35]It's part notebook, but it's also part like movie art book, like a coffee table book. You've got a lot of like pictures from the movie included. I actually just got this a couple months ago, so I've not had a chance to read it yet, but I would like to sit down and read it. Now, like I said, I am going to be making a whole video just about scary stories for sleepovers, but that's not all for this video just yet. There are other books I can talk about, and these are books that were inspired by scary stories to tell in the dark. So, we've got a whole stack of books here from Cemetery Gates Media, one of my very favorite publishers. I will link their books down below. I highly recommend just checking out all of their books. They have a whole bunch of books that are inspired by scary stories to tell in the dark. So this is called Corpse Cold, a new American folklore by John Breuell and Joe Sullivan. It's got illustrations by Chad Worly. So they're not illustrations by Steven Gaml, but as you can see, Chad Worley's art style is very much influenced by Steven Gaml. The book is full of folklore and illustrations. If you are a fan of scary stories to tell in the dark, this is the perfect book for you. I would say this is the closest thing you've got to a brand new scary stories book. They have other books here that have covers very much in style of scary stories. So you've got At the Cemetery Gates volumes one and two and Tales from Valley View Cemetery. These are all great books with a lot of cool short stories. They're not illustrated on the inside though, so just a little forewarning there. And likewise, there's also Other Voices, Other Tombs, which is edited by John Breuell and Joe Sullivan.

[00:29:12]This actually has stories from a bunch of different authors, including yours truly. I wrote a story for this book.

[00:29:18]It's called The Switch. It's kind of like The Parent Trap a little bit, but horror. These ones are probably the most well-known. You've got Nightmare Soup, Tales That Will Turn Your Stomach. I have two of these. And then there's Nightmare Society books one and two.

[00:29:32]There are others in these series now. I don't own them. In fact, there's like a big hardcover bindup of all of them. I would love to get that one of these days. cuz I just I haven't got around to it. And even though I love all of these new books coming out that are inspired by Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, at the end of the day, it is always going to be these original books that inspired me so much, that have inspired my writing, that have inspired this whole entire YouTube channel. Yes, Goosebumps is very influential to me. I've talked about it over and over, but it's the scary stories to tell in the dark books that haunted me in my childhood, but made me into a braver person and uh definitely influenced my writing because with these stories, I really learned that less is more. Sometimes a couple of paragraphs is all you need to really traumatize a person. Thank you creeps so much for watching this video and reminiscing with me about scary stories to tell in the dark. Definitely let me know down below what stories stood out to you. What illustrations haunted your nightmares. Tell me all about your memories of scary stories to tell in the dark. And like I said, stay tuned because I will be talking a lot more about scary stories with my video about scary stories for sleepovers that's coming in the near future. But until then, happy nightmares, creeps, and I will catch you on the next episode of Library Macob. Later, creeps.