![]() Turns out, what terrifies a fox can terrify a child just as easily. ![]() ![]() Foxes? How scary can that get? Answer: Hoo-boy. With all that in mind, a book with a title like Scary Stories for Young Foxes (featuring some seriously cute kits on its cover) seems like weak tea in comparison. Whether it’s Jonathan Auxier’s The Night Gardener, Katherine Arden’s Small Spaces, Tracey Baptiste’s The Jumbies, or Adam Gidwitz’s A Tale Dark and Grimm series, there’s something for every kind of horror fan. Its gradual release on the industry is now allowing new books to sneak through the cracks. How else to explain the popularity of series like Goosebumps or the never-unpopular Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark? Actually, Goosebumps isn’t quite the powerhouse these days that it once was. And book publishers, realizing that kids love scary stories, have turned them into a neat and tidy little industry. ![]() At some point in a human life, a little switch gets flipped in the brain and suddenly, instead of dreading that moment at night when you clutch your bed sheets and pull them over your head, you seek it out. ![]()
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