New Scary Stories for Kids
I’ve been writing a good number of scary stories and poems for kids to prepare for Halloween 2016. ZebraFox Games is developing a new Halloween app: Felipe Femur: Scary Stories for Kids 2, and I wanted to really flesh it out with a healthy volume of new stories. The biggest complaints of the first edition of Scary Stories for Kids (for Android) were that there were too few stories (only three) and they weren’t scary enough. I’ve strengthened the new app on both fronts. The new Halloween/ campfire story app will have nineteen brand new scary stories in addition to the original three, bringing the total to twenty-two. While the original scary stories app only had three characters tell a story (Felipe Femur the skeleton, Sunny the vampire, and Gummy the werewolf) the new campfire boasts a company of eleven monster characters. Twelve if you count Choral the musical crab. Each character delivers two stories or poems. Each story has already been uploaded to the Felipe Femur & Friends website. As a special treat, I have created a scary image for each. Click on any of the images below to be taken to their corresponding stories. Below are ten of the twenty-two stories. Some old, most new.
The Chilling New Tales:
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Wet, Toothless Mouths
Sunny the sun-loving vampire’s original tale of clammy terror. Appeared in the original scary stories app; is making its return. Read as Sunny tries to worm his way out of a tight situation. |
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Emergence Sunny the sun-loving vampire’s new tale of terror. Inspired and written in Kafka’s Metamorphosis fashion, Sunny wakes up as a giant bat beast. Read how he keeps from going batty. |
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Wind in the Tree Tops Runny the witch is one of the original four characters, but she was sadly left out of the original story app for lack of room and data resources. This is her first of two tales that is wickedly eerie. ‘Beware the wind that blows towards home!’
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Captain No-beard and the Skeleton Crew
One of the lighter of the new scary stories, this one follows newcomer Oscar Burlin, the mundane magician, as he serves as a ship’s potato peeler in his youth. A run in with the infamous captain No-beard leaves him rattled. |
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The Depraved Dentist
Gummy the toothless werewolf served up a tales about slender tenders and a cursed can-opener the first time around. This time he explains his fear of dentists in a tale inspired by unfortunately true tales of greed and horror. |
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In a Room Thick with Darkness
In a Room Thick with Darkness is one of two scary poems/potential songs included in the lineup. This one is a bedtime story Melody heard going up, recited by Choral the musical crab as Melody the banshee is mute. The poem is supposed to have a bit of a twist at the end and leave reader’s skin crawling. It’s a quick read. |
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Dust Destroyers
Dale the profitless salesman is so consumed with the acquisition of money and being shady that he can be hard to relate to. In this tale of inanimate horror he plays the hero… sort of. See if Dale can clean up his act and save the world. |
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The Voice Beneath the Bathtub
Perhaps the creepiest of the new tales, The Voice Beneath the Bathtub is story from Gilli Fishel’s perspective. Now knowing how to swim is a problem, but he thought he was safe in the bathtub with his duck float Tate. He was wrong. This story has also been narrated by Keely Nesbit and uploaded as an audio story to YouTube. You can listen to it here: The Voice Beneath the Bathtub. |
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The Sound of a Hungry Stomach
Felipe Femur’s second story shares a theme with his first: being eaten. While his first story ends with a twist, on a humorous note, this second story is far more grave. Read about Felipe’s experience at camp in the cabin nearest the cemetery. |
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Is It on the Menu?
Wesley Richards (Wes Noyer – in the noir series, La Chat Noir) serves up a creepy tale of foreboding. Is it on the menu and what exactly is ‘it?’ Find out in Wesley’s story and check out is earthworm of a song, as well. Read all these and many more in the scary stories section of Felipe Femur & Friends.
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The Spooky New App:
The new app version of these scary stories to tell in the dark (for kids) is now available for Android devices. It is avaible to download on SlideMe and for browser play on Gamejolt, Newgrounds, and Felipe Femur, where it seems to be faring better than it is on GooglePlay. We have very few download on Google Play for now, but hopefully with Halloween coming and the new screenshot on the original, more popular app directing attention to the new app, we will get more downloads soon. Below is the trailer video for the new Scary Stories for Kids 2 with a little parody of the Nightmare Before Christmas to start it off. Download the Android version here: Scary Stories for Kids 2.