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What If Are You Afraid of the Dark? Were Remade As R-Rated Horror Fare?

There is an entire generation of kids that grew up watching the spooky-when-you’re-12 Nickelodeon series Are You Afraid of the Dark? in the early nineties that is now old enough to tolerate more chilling, adult fright fests. But why should screenwriters search for new terrifying ideas when they could simply mine the AYAOTD back catalogue and make those old stories more nightmare-y? Patrick Sullivan has done half the work by designing eerie posters for grown-up versions of three classic episodes often cited as the series’ spookiest: “The Tale of Dead Man’s Float,” “The Tale of the Night Nurse,” and “The Tale of the Dangerous Soup” (with Neve Campbell, of course).

Are You Afraid of the Dark? As Real Horror