10. 'Suffer the Little Children' (1972).
This is one of the few stories in this early selection that I remembered just based on the title. With most of the others ( Battleground, The Mangler and Trucks being the exceptions), I only realised I'd read them already once I began. This one, though. Oh, boy. This one gave me nightmares. I was excited to read Suffer the Little Children again partly just to see if it still had that effect on me. I first read it when I was about twelve, and I knew picking it up this time that my view of it was likely to be shifted significantly by adulthood. Suffer the Little Children This little gem is the story of Miss Emily Sidley, and elderly first grade teacher, who begins to feel as though her students have changed and are now watching her with evil intent. The ringleader, Robert, taunts her, even beginning to change and show her his new, real face; a terrifying, alien face which sends Miss Sidley screaming into the streets and almost under the wheels of a bus. The story end...