As a kid(89-02ish) I had a few books that were compilations of short horror stories for kids. They all had a goosebumps-esque vibe and some may have been written by RL Stine.
If anyone can shed any info on any of these books or individual stories to get the hall rolling in tracking these down I’ll be eternally grateful
Here is a list of some of the stories that were in those books(as best as I remember all these years later). Some details may be wrong obviously.
-a group of girls get together outside for a sleepover, maybe? They decide to play light as a feather stiff as a board and the girl they lift keeps floating upwards and upwards until she drifts away
-a kid wakes up to find he’s now a small Godzilla/t-rex style dinosaur monster. His mom doesn’t act like anything out of the ordinary is happening. He struggles using cutlery and on the way to school enjoys stomping the concrete sidewalks so they crack. They then make it seem that the kid will wake up as something totally different tomorrow
-a kid finds an old spacesuit at a garage sale and when they put it on it calls aliens and forces the kid to go with them
-a kid finds an old fountain with a stone gargoyle on top. He fills his water gun with the gross stagnant fountain water and sprays the gargoyle, which in turn is freed from the stone and chases him through the woods
-two kids stay with their grandma who forces them to eat prunes in literally every food, which make them start to turn into old men overnight
-a kid gets a temporary tattoo while trick or treating that says to apply it with water bathed in moonlight or something, which works but also a whole bunch snakes start showing up on the kids room
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Still More Tales to Give You Goosebumps?
I don’t know, but this sounds awesome especially
>a kid finds an old spacesuit at a garage sale and when they put it on it calls aliens and forces the kid to go with them
However! This story
>two kids stay with their grandma who forces them to eat prunes in literally every food, which make them start to turn into old men overnight
was actually a real episode on either the Goosebumps TV show, or the Are You Afraid of the Dark? show!
Edit: it was an episode of Goosebumps
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0591324/plotsummary/
Haha! It turns out is was a Goosebumps book!
https://goosebumps.fandom.com/wiki/Still_More_Tales_to_Give_You_Goosebumps
I found it after my previous comment regarding this story:
https://goosebumps.fandom.com/wiki/An_Old_Story
Those last four are definitely Goosebumps stories. They are from the Tales To Give Yourself Goosebumps series.
https://goosebumps.fandom.com/wiki/Tales_to_Give_You_Goosebumps
> “The Space Suit Snatcher” – A girl who is interested in aliens receives a strange space suit and suddenly gets contacted by aliens.
> “I’m Telling!” – A boy comes across a liquid coming out of a Gargoyle that turns anything it touches to stone which he uses to keep his little sister from tattling on him.
> “An Old Story” – Two adolescent brothers are fed enchanted prunes by their witch aunt, and the fruits transform them into elderly gentlemen whom the witch lady intends to marry off to her friends for a price.
> “Attack of the Tattoo” – A girl gets a fake snake tattoo that when exposed to water and sun makes snakes slither out of her skin.
Hi I seen you posted a comment few yrs back abt “somebody that you use to know” my mom was having the same thing everything we were suggesting was wrong and just this morning she said she could remember a few lyrics and when I searched them up it was New Order “true faith” she said this was the one for her,but i have seen see around the internet that it’s a bit of a Mandela effect that loads of people remember it but everyone has different song I think it may be the chords are similar in all the song that were recommended but I just said I’d let you know incase this was the same one for you