{"product_id":"bedtime-stories-that-will-terrify-children-and-keep-them-awake-all-night-long-paperback-1","title":"Bedtime Stories That Will Terrify Children: ... And Keep Them Awake All Night Long - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRandolph B. Schiffer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat if the stories we tell before sleep... aren't meant to comfort, but to awaken?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this haunting collection of eight stories, Randolph B. Schiffer draws on the psychology of childhood fears and the fragile magic of memory.\u003cem\u003eBedtime Stories That Will Terrify Children\u003c\/em\u003e explores the mysteries that live inside us long after the lights go out.Each story is a meditation on fear, love, and the strange inheritance of family-stories of boys, fathers, and the shadows that shape them.They are bedtime stories for adults who still remember the dark.And for children who have always known it was there\u003cp\u003eThese are not stories to lull children to sleep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey're the stories we tell when there's nothing left to say-except the truth, cloaked in fable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in the flickering voice of an aging narrator remembering the tales his father once whispered to him and his brother, this haunting collection confronts childhood fears with sharp wit and quiet terror. A dog that might be a monster. A squirrel that guards the door between worlds. A red plant that eats what it pleases.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is bedtime for grownups.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the monsters are real-because they live in memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"I wrote this book for my children. Not because I had the answers-but because the stories might ask the right questions.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e Randolph B. Schiffer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCondensed Author's Note \u003cp\u003eIn the spring of 1990, my wife and I were told that our three-year-old son, Brenton, had acute lymphocytic leukemia. At that time, survival was uncertain, and treatment was long, painful, and unforgiving. We could not control the disease - but we believed we might help him endure it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmall children do not fear death; they fear abandonment. So we restructured our lives to ensure that Brenton was never alone. And when doctors later warned us he might be relapsing, I began telling him stories at bedtime - stories of danger and courage, fear and resilience. In them, I reversed the roles I wished I could have reversed in real life: the father became the one in peril; the child, the witness to strength.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese eight stories are not gentle tales. They are stories of suspense and moral reckoning, of animals and ancient spirits, of cowardice and bravery. They were told by candlelight during the hardest year of our lives, in the hope that story might fortify where medicine could not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe doctors were wrong. Brenton survived. He is now grown, with a child of his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have written these stories down in the hope that somewhere, another child - and another family - might find in them what we did: not comfort, but courage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Randolph B. Schiffer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 170\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.36 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 28, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45865997238469,"sku":"9781738339440","price":28.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/SvUWDHxKC9781738339440.webp?v=1782346760","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/bedtime-stories-that-will-terrify-children-and-keep-them-awake-all-night-long-paperback-1","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}