[Freddywise]

To be perfectly honest, I'm the only one of my friends that really liked scary stuff, including the stories and "campfire" type of spooks. But I did have the "Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark" books, and those were my friends as a child until I graduated to Poe, Lovecraft, and King.

But there is one scary story that I remember as one of my very first I heard, and it still sticks with me to this day, is Washington Irving's "Sleepy Hollow.". Something about it just enthrals me.