Childrin R Skary

Childrin R Skary is a series of Web Animations by Katy Towell about...well, scary children. It has featured, among others, a child spreading a plague and a child who everyone treats as a pariah but it turns out she is the only one keeping the real monsters from killing everything.

Twelve years ago, for 12 days straight, the town of Widowsbury suffered a terrible storm, which tore open a gate through which escaped all sorts of foul, rotten things. Strange things and strange people were no longer welcomed in Widowsbury, for one could never be sure of what secrets waited under the surface.

Adelaide Foss, Maggie Borland, and Beatrice Alfred are known by their classmates at Widowsbury's Madame Gertrude's School for Girls as "scary children." Unfairly targeted because of their peculiarities, the girls spend a good deal of time isolated in the school's inhospitable library facing detention. But when a number of people mysteriously begin to disappear in Widowsbury, the girls work together, along with Steffen Weller, son of the cook at Rudyard School for Boys, to find out who, or what, is behind the abductions.

There are also tons of illustrations that keep in line with the site's rather macabre theme.

The series can be found here.

Ms. Towell has also published two young adult novels: Skary Childrin and the Carousel of Sorrow and Charlie and the Grandmothers.

Tropes used in Childrin R Skary include:

• Bittersweet Ending: For a few animations, but especially in "The Mockingbird Song".
• Creepy Child: This series uses it left and right, though the girl in "The Mockingbird Song" is rather cute despite being a vampire by the end of the animation.. Sometimes played straight, sometimes subverted.
• Despair Event Horizon: "The Little Girl Who Was Forgotten By Absolutely Everyone, Even The Postman". My God.
• Don't Fear the Reaper: The Childrin may indeed be skary, but Death, despite the skeleton-in-a-cloak-with-a-scythe look, is a kindly and benevolent figure (and a bit of a Woobie too):
  • Death 'n' Elsie.
  • An Elephant's Memory.
  • A Parting Gift.
• Gallows Humor: In abundance.
• Nightmare Fuel: It's called Childrin R Skary for a reason.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Let's see. We have little girls under the age of ten taking over the world, killing people and Cupid, and controlling zombies. And that's just in the actual films.