Introduction

    For my storybook, I am doing Urban Legends: Tales of the Supernatural. This storybook appealed to me a lot more than the other topics because I really do enjoy reading the scary stories such as urban legends and I hope you will enjoy reading them as  much as I do. Ever since middle school, watching the movie Urban Legend, I have been fascinated by urban legends.  A story that gives you chills while you read it is what makes a horror story a good story. Every time I watch or read a horror story, I get chills thinking about what is gonna happen next. Is somebody gonna jump out and scare me? Everyone loves a good scare. I know I do! With urban legends, nobody knows if they are true or not.  I think it is scary in a way because everybody, including myself, wants to try out the urban legends they read or hear about. Take, for example, the legend of "Bloody Mary." Who hasn't heard about "Bloody Mary?" People are curious to see if it really works. But people are scared to even try it. What makes it even scarier is that nobody knows how it originated. Who is this "Bloody Mary?"

    The stories I will do for the storybook are the scariest stories out there. They all share a mystery that makes everyone wondering at the end. After reading each and every one of the urban legends, I decided these four were the scariest: "The Mummy," "The Vanishing Hitchhiker," "Helping Hands," and "Black Agnes."

    "The Mummy" is an urban legend about an ancient mummy who brought a curse along with it. This story will give you the chills and scare you because it is about mummies and curses. What really makes it scary is that the story takes place on the Titanic. So it could seem like it could be true and that it could happen again. What kind of curse it could be and how it originated is a very interesting and scary story to read.

    "The Vanishing Hitchhiker" is a story about hitchhiking. If you ever thought picking up a stranger or hitchhiker, then you can relate to this story. That is why this story would be really scary to tell: who knows what could happen with the driver or hitchhiker? Now that could scare anybody.

    "Black Agnes" takes place in a cemetery at night. The setting of the story always has an effect of making it scarier or not. For example, a cemetery is a perfect setting for a story. It gives a story an eerie feeling. Nobody feels comfortable in a cemetery, especially at night. There are stories everywhere about cemeteries being haunted and creepy. And what makes it even scarier is that not only does the character in the story visits the cemetery, but she stays the night! Another type of scary story is a disaster or "accidents" story. The movie Final Destination brought a new type of scary story to theater audiences. It made audiences scared and cringe at accidents and disasters portrayed in the movie. "Helping Hands" is a story that will make you cringe!

    So shall we go ahead and start? Our stories start off with a restless child, Maddie, who is begging for a scary story to hear before bed. Maddie ask,"Mommy, can you tell me a scary story?" The mother replies,"Of course sweetheart, it all starts like this...."