Bedtime Stories That Will Terrify Children: ... And Keep Them Awake All Night Long

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Randolph B Schiffer

Bedtime Stories That Will Terrify Children

... And Keep Them Awake All Night Long

Randolph B Schiffer

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Omera Press Ltd
28 October 2025

Age groups: adults; Child & developmental psychology; Psychology of ageing

What if the stories we tell before sleep... aren't meant to comfort, but to awaken?

In this haunting collection of eight stories, Randolph B. Schiffer draws on the psychology of childhood fears and the fragile magic of memory.

Bedtime Stories That Will Terrify Children 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 thereThese are not stories to lull children to sleep.

They're the stories we tell when there's nothing left to say-except the truth, cloaked in fable.

Told 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.

This is bedtime for grownups.

And the monsters are real-because they live in memory.

""I wrote this book for my children. Not because I had the answers-but because the stories might ask the right questions.""

Randolph B. Schiffer

By: Randolph B Schiffer
Imprint: Omera Press Ltd
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9781738339440
ISBN 10: 1738339440
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 28 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Randolph B. Schiffer has lived many lives-Marine, physician, psychotherapist, professor-and now, storyteller.A graduate of Yale College and the University of Michigan Medical School, Dr. Schiffer's career spanned both battlefield and brain. He served as a Marine infantry officer during the Vietnam War, led departments in prestigious medical institutions, and co-founded the American Neuropsychiatric Association. At one time, he was the only physician listed in Best Doctors in America for both adult neurology and psychiatry.In 2010, he stepped away from medicine to write. His literary voice-measured, unflinching, and strangely tender-blends memory with myth, and mortality with mischief. From their cedar cabin in Bois Blanc Lake, Michigan, he writes in view of the lake that has shaped so many of his stories.He also resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife, Dr. Lynn S. Bickley, closer to his sons and family in Dallas.