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Children's scary stories are a phenomenon that each of us has encountered in one way or another. It so happened that, using these three rather vague in terminology words together, the bearers of this tradition, its researchers and simply interested persons usually mean a very specific genre of children's oral folklore, the heyday of which came in the 60-80s of the last century - a horror story. However, this is only one, certainly the brightest, representative of a multi-genre and diverse system of children's mythology in general and the tradition of exchanging scary stories in particular. In the lecture, we will consider the main approaches to the study of this phenomenon, determine its scale and boundaries, trace the evolution of the poetic structure, motives and images of the works related to it and try to figure out when scary stories in the form we are accustomed to arose in the children's environment, what they actually tell about and what is happening to them now. Lecturer: Tatyana Mirvoda, PhD in Philology, graduate of the Department of Russian Oral Folklore, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, independent researcher. The meeting will be held as part of the lecture series “The Devil Knows What: Demons in World Culture.” Our website: http://nekrasovka.ru/ VK: http://vk.com/nekrasovkalibrary Telegram: https://t.me/nekrasovkalibrary Subscribe to the channel: / @nekrasovkalibrary