#scary tales

[asyayordanova]

#dark fantasy #Dark Art #horror art #horror #horror illustration #creepy art #spooky art #weird #weird art #eerie art #Spooky Girl #creepy girl #nightmare fuel #witch #witchy art #witchy aesthetic #scary tales #dark fairytale #horror tale

[lvmity]

#i love scary tales #monster high fanart #draculaura #draculaura fanart #monster high #scary tales #snow bite

[thepinkdolly-ah]

I loveeee scary tales sooo much 😭💕

#dolltwt #dollblr #doll #monster high #dolls #mh #monster high cleo #frankie stein #frankie #draculaura #clawdeen wolf #clawdeen #cleo de nile #cleo #monster high heath #heath #abby bominable #abby #monster high gen 1 #scary tales #sooo pretty #loveeee #snow bite #little dead riding wolf #threadarella

[blogofblogofblogs]

SCARY TALES #12 (March 1978 - Charlton Comics) - cover art by Demetrio Sánchez Gómez featuring Countess Von Bludd. Cover scanned from my personal collection.

#scary tales #charlton comics #demetrio sanchez gomez #countess von bludd #1978 #comic books #comic anthology #vintage comics #horror comics

[popping-your-culture]

#scary tales #charlton comics #horror comics #1970s #70s comics #bronze age comics #legs and heels #legs for miles #smoke show #goddess #lady in red #satanic panic

[adarkrainbow]

Searching for lost media: the Scary Tales documentary (1)

I was not expecting to throw a hunt for lost media over this humble side-blog dedicated to fairytales, but here we go... As I was searching for information on the fairytale Bluebeard I saw an interesting mention in its Wikipedia article:

Bluebeard is featured in Scary Tales, produced by the Discovery Channel, Sony and IMAX, episode one, in 2011. (This series is not related to the Disney collection of the same name.)

Of course, this led me to search for the famous “Scary Tales” series... Only to find it was nowhere to be seen. It was ignored by most website (overshadowed by famous shows with similar tales, like American Horror Stories, or by other documentaries such as “Scary Stories” - about the book “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark”). Only a few streaming websites had an article about the show - and even then, all they could say was “It isn’t disponible anymore”, “This series is unavaible”, “This page doesn’t exist anymore”.

Hopefully a few websites still survive with a few descriptions, reviews and pictures proving that this documentary series did indeed exist. 

The first one I stumbled upon was a page from press.discovery.com, with this lovely picture:

The page was visibly created before the series aired, since it talks of its premiers. It is under the category “3net programs”, and here is what it says:

Scary Tales

Premieres Sunday, October 30 at 9PM ET

Unlike anything you've seen in 2D or 3D, Scary Tales is scripted series so weird and fantastic, it needs an extra dimension just to contain itself.  There are marauding giants, ghost-plagued forests and human wolves... a place where cannibals feast, kidnappers terrorize and fiends lurk behind every tree. Inanimate objects come to life, and the innocent are punished. It's a world that really exists if only in our own subconscious.  The hour long, four episode series is produced by Workaholic Productions, Inc.  3nets Director of Development and Production Don Bland serves as executive producer on behalf of the network.

Here is the source: https://press.discovery.com/us/3n/programs/scary-tales/

Now that I had a website that told me roughly what the show was about I dug a bit more around. Scary Tales has an IMDb page right here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2111891/ . It lists the show as being from 2011, produced by both 3net and Workaholic Productions, and as having four episodes. Its synopsis there is: 

Learn about the horrific original versions of your favorite fairy tales plus commentary from historians.

With this lovely picture to go with it:

There is also the full cast of the show (which I will not copy here - maybe in another post), and more interestingly the full list of the four episodes, with their respective subjects. In order, they are:

1. Red Riding Hood & Bluebeard (aired on the 30th of October 2011)

"Red Riding Hood" examines the history and historical context of the popular fairy tale and reveals themes of sexuality, murder, cannibalism, and lycanthropy. "Bluebird" investigates the folk tale of the wife murdering aristocrat and argues that the story may be based on the real life murders of Gilles de Rais.

2. Hansel and Gretel & Cinderella (aired on the 5th of November 2011)

"Hansel and Gretel" examines the historical context of the popular fairy tale and reveals themes of hunger, child abandonment, cannibalism, child abuse,and murder. "Cinderella" looks at the less well know aspects of the surprisingly dark and brutal fairy tale.

3. Snow White & The Juniper Tree (aired on the 3rd of December 2011)

"Snow White" looks at the story behind the surprisingly dark and morbid fairy tale arguing that may have been based on the story of Margarete Von Waldeck and her cruel stepmother. "The Juniper Tree" looks at a vicious and bloody fairy tale about a stepmother who murders her stepson and tricks her daughter into thinking that the death was her responsibility.

4. The Pied Piper & Rapunzel (aired on the 12th of December 2011)

"The Pied Piper" looks at the reality behind the legend of a child murdering rat catcher of Hamelin and offers some theories about what really happened to the disappearing children of the village. "Rapunzel" examines the dark aspects of the popular fairy tale about the long haired maiden locked in a tower.

While the show is nowadays (apparently) completely unaccessible, not present on any streaming platform and not sold anywhere, there’s a handful of votes for the documentary on IMDb, up to fifteen for the first episode. 

The IMDb info was notably taken back by the Kinorium website, on this page: https://en.kinorium.com/1554991/episodes/s1e1/

A third and final website in my search (there’s other info I’ll put in another post) is the most fascinating of them all. It is the portfolio of set designer Susannah Christine, who worked on different segments of the show - and has pictures of her set design. I won’t put all of them here - just a few, the rest will be in the second post, and to keep things short I’ll put them under a cut. But already, if before I release the second post somebody has any information about his show, or know where one can watch it (because I admit I am very curious about its content), let me know! 

Here’s Susannah Christine work for the segment “Snow-White”:

And her work for the segment “Rapunzel”:

Plus a picture of what I think might be the Bluebeard segment:

#lost media #searching for lost media #scary tales #dark fairytales #horror fairytales #bluebeard #rapunzel #little red riding hood #documentary #horror #creepy fairytales

[hoodudevoodoofanclub]

I think we were robbed guys

HEATH IN A BUTTON UP AND ANOTHER HOLT

COME ON

#i know about abbey and cleo too but this is about the boys rn #monster high #mh #heath burns #holt hyde #frankie stein #clawdeen wolf #scary tales

[childlikegoblinqueen]

Grimwalker Scarytale

The whispers in the walls.

Once there was a young witchling who was taken in by a kindly old couple.

They had been a reclusive couple that lived in a large crumbling home on the hill.

The word around town was that their own children had sailed for uncharted lands and never returned, leaving their parents alone to age.

So when the couple had posted a notice around town that they required the help of a strong young witchling to aid in their chores, the child on the street immediately had marched up to their door and applied for the position.

The couple were overjoyed and immediately offered the young witchling a nice soft bed and a hot meal cooked from the vegetables they had grown from the garden that grew all around the yard.

But that first night when the witchling slept they heard whispers from the walls all around.

“Let us out.”

They sang.

“Let us out.”

The next morning when the witchling woke, they asked the couple about the noises.

“Oh, you must have heard the wind howling through the Titan’s ribs.” said the wife.

“If you close the shutters the noise should stop.” said the husband.

The couple fed the witchling breakfast, and they went about their day.

They milked the spiders, brought in the griffin, cut the red grasses and grinded up the grains to make bread for supper.

Tired out, the witchling fell to sleep – but not before closing the shutters as suggested to keep the winds from howling.

But once again, that night, the witchling was awoken by the sound of whispering from the walls.

“ Let us out.”

They hissed urgently.

“Please, please, let us out!”

Again, the witchling’s sleep suffered.

The next morning at breakfast once again, the witchling rose for breakfast in a daze.

“What is troubling you?” The wife asked.

“I closed the shutters like you had said, but I heard the voices once again.” The witchling explained.

“Ah!” Said the husband. “Our dear children used to have trouble sleeping as well, did they not, my dear?”

“Yes,” said the wife mournfully. She nodded towards an old portrait on the wall of five witches. Two were clearly the elderly couple in their prime. The other three were small children with hair the color of raven feather and thickly freckled noses. Their bright yellow eyes mirrored the joy of their wide grins.

“In their youth, our children would often complain of the winds in their ears.” The wife explained, “They would crawl into our beds to cuddle when they could not sleep, and we would care for them as we would when they suffered from the common mold.”

“They were our everything, but then they chose to leave.” said her husband, “But alas, now you are here and you have reminded us of how we lost them.”

The witchling apologized for upsetting the couple and dragged their tired body out to the field.

Once again, they milked the spiders, and took the griffin out to pasture.

That night the frost had rolled in and the couple asked the witchling to chop some firewood from the nearby forest, even though they seemed to have a pile of beautiful blue logs in a corner or the griffin’s stable.

“Make sure to bring some wood into your own room dear,” said the wife.

The witchling did this, and placed the logs into the small fireplace in the corner of their room, laying the ax next to the window.

But once again, that night the witchling was awoken by the sound of whispering in the walls.

“Let us out!”

“Let us out!”

“Please, please, let us out!”

The witchling could no longer take it. They grabbed the ax and began to split the walls, chipping away at wood and plaster until the witchling saw them.

Dozens and dozens of figures, behind the walls.

Some older, some younger. All with raven black hair and freckled noses.

But their eyes were not gold.

They were bright red.

They grabbed for the witchling with long, unkempt fingernails.

“Thank you! Thank you!” They sang. “Please release us!”

But the elderly couple had heard the noise.

“You shouldn’t have done that.” The wife said.

“And our children should have never tried to leave us.” Said the husband. “We stopped them, but then we had realized the mistake we had made, so we fixed it.”

“But they came out wrong. So we tried again and again.” the wife explained, “but they all tried to leave us.”

The witchling backed into the wall as the couple approached, both drawing spell circles that shook the ground.

“So we built this house to keep them with us for always.” The husband said mournfully.

The hands of the red eyed figures closed around the witchling’s shoulders, pulling her in.

“Alas,” sighed the wife, “Now that you have discovered our secret we must keep you as well.”

“And just in time.” said the husband, “for our children have not eaten in weeks.”

And then, the walls closed all around the witchling as their eyes filled with tears.

#grimwalker biology #toh grimwalker #grimwalker lore #toh fanfic #toh grimwalkers #scary tales #the owl house #a03 fanfic #fanfiction #grimwalker

[browsethestacks]

Scary Tales #01 (1975)

Art by Joe Staton

#Comics #Charlton Comics #Scary Tales #Joe Staton #Horror #Horror Comics #Countess von Bludd #Vintage #Art #Original Art #Charlton #Before And After #1975 #1970s #70s

[axelmedellin]

Daily drawing 25 oct 2022

Day 25, Mabsdrawlloweenclub, “Fang Club”

Also, Drawlloween, “Scary Tales”

#mabsdrawlloweenclub #fang club #drawlloween #scary tales #fanart #vampire #nosferatu #count orlock #dracula #gary oldman #daily drawing #drawing of the day #brush and ink #traditional art #color ink #axel medellin #AxelMedellinArt #inktober

[dykeyfuckingway]

i didn't like the hozi er ep T-T

#he's shifting from folk to soul/r&b WHICH I LOVE FOR HIM #but i love folk......... #anyways im gonna go listen on repeat w the expectation that it'll grow on me <3 #scary tales

[machetelanding]

#scary tales #charlton comics #comic books #comic book covers #horror #spooky #vintage #1980s

[thatzombiefoo]

#the walking dead #horror #horror memes #zombie #pandemic #zombies #dark fantasy #dark humor #undead #horror streamer #scary #scary tales

[cccovers]

Haunted #18 (October 1974) cover by Joe Staton.

Reprinted in Scary Tales #20 (June 1979).

#haunted #scary tales #comic covers #70s #joe staton

[theargoninja]

Day 25 of #Drawlloween "Scary Tales"

I decided to draw up @puppetcombo 's character, Billy, since he appears in their game collection with the same name.

Open for Commissions

My Ko-Fi

#Drawlloween #Halloween #Puppet Combo #Art #Artist On Tumblr #Scary Tales #Fan Art #Digital Art #Crosshatching #Clown #Scary Clown #Horror

[adarkrainbow]

Searching for lost media: the Scary Tales documentary (2)

What is quite interesting is that we have actually small clips and extracts from the show itself! They were posted on the 3net Youtube channel eleven years ago - the channel called “3netTV”. More precisely we have the opening scene of two of the episodes.

The one of Hansel and Gretel / Cinderella:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQUB89rgjec

And the one of Pied Piper / Rapunzel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dx36QO5e0s

As you can see, these bear the mark of your typical Discovery Channel documentary. An alternate set of historian interviews and live-action reconstitutions of the subject - accompanied by occasional bad CGI and bad acting typical of such “documentary reconstitution scenes” of the 2000s (2011 being technically late 2000s). Though the sets are gorgeous, as you might have seen before, and will see below. 3netTV also has the opening scene of the “Little Red Riding Hood / Bluebeard” episode but it is... special. It is a 3D video. So if you do not have 3D glasses, it will just hurt your eyes. 

However, what 3net also brings on Youtube is a scene from the reconstitution of the brothers Grimm fairytale “The Juniper Tree”. Mostly it is the famous scene of the boy being beheaded by his wicked stepmother. And... I have to admit I actually really like this scene. The documentary is all about digging the darkness, grim things and creepy details of fairytales, and this scene truly plays the darkness and borderline horror of the original tale - BUT it also deals with the lack of funds and means such a documentary has. It plays on what we do not see, on camera angles, lighting and the acting to convey the scene, and I really like how creepy the stepmother is depicted here, truly fitting the idea of a woman “possessed by the devil” as it is implied in the Grimm tale (or as we would put it today, a complete sociopath/psychopath). But you can see the scene by yourself there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFxbi37I7Lw&pp=ygUQc2NhcnkgdGFsZXMgM25ldA%3D%3D

As I promised in my previous post, here is more of the set design pictures from Susannah Christine’s portfolio (right here: https://www.susannahchristinedesign.com/scary-tales.html )

Here are some of the “Hansel and Gretel” segment:

Many for the “Red Riding Hood” segment:

A mix of Snow White (left) with Hansel and Gretel (right):

And a picture of what is either the Cinderella or Bluebeard segment:

There are many more pictures, but you can check by yourself over at the portfolio. 

I think this is all worth posting for now. As I was notified in my previous post, the show was on Netflix for quite some times - and the Youtube comments under the videos confirmed the episodes could be seen on Netflix. However - like many other shows - it got removed one day, and so it cannot be looked at by Netflix anymore.

Does anyone know where this show can be seen today? Has anyone kept a copy of it somewhere? Are there links? 

#scary tales #lost media #searching for lost media #dark fairytales #horror fairytales #documentary #creepy fairytales #little red riding hood #red riding hood #hansel and gretel #rapunzel #the pied piper of hamelin #cinderella