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What scary kid's book is this? Growing up in the seventies, there was a kid's book in the library I remember -- a collection of pretty scary stories, with illustrations. I remember two in particular. The first was about a boy who lies in bed as the moon casts a shadow of some tree branches on his mattress. The shadows look like skeletal arms, and as the moon moves lower in the sky the shadow moves closer and closer to the terrified boy's throat, until eventually the "arms" strangle him.



The second I remember the end of... a girl captures a glowing bug and kills it, only to discover that it was her brother (who was somehow transformed earlier in the story. Like I say, I only remember the end), after what's left of the bug turns into -- if I remember correctly -- a severed hand.



I'd love to track down this book. Anyone know it? I remember really liking the illustrations.