# Earliest Horror Story

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-horror-story/996285>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** books-writing-myths\
**Created:** [January 18, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-horror-story/996285 "2024-01-18T18:37:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-horror-story/996285/41 "2024-01-19T22:14:12Z")

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I think this is an excellent analysis, and one I was thinking of as I read beyond my post, but couldn’t manage to phrase coherently.

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**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2024, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-horror-story/996285/42 "2024-01-19T22:27:37Z")

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> [@Banksiaman](#):
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> As were many of the folk tales recorded by the Grimm Brothers -

Anyone else make the parenting choice of reading the originals to your young kids? Somehow or another we ended up w/ a “complete volume” and I decided that would be good bedtime reading for the 3 pre-middle school kids. It was only a couple of stories before someone was sealed in a barrel with spikes driven into it and bounced down a hill into a river. Certainly got the kids’ attention!

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