My name’s Jason, and growing up, I was obsessed with exactly the kind of stories you’ll find here: the eerie, page-turning, read-under-the-covers-with-a-flashlight kind. The books that made you a little afraid to turn the light off, and made you race back the next day to find out what happened next. That feeling — of a story you couldn’t put down — is what got me hooked on reading in the first place.

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I’m a father, and watching how kids relate to reading these days got me thinking. Screens are everywhere. Attention spans are short. But that same thrill I felt as a kid — the creepy, can’t-stop-reading kind — hasn’t gone anywhere. Kids still want to be scared, still want a mystery to chase, still light up over a good cliffhanger. They just don’t always get handed the right story in the right format to discover that.

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That’s where The Boogeyman’s Mailbox came from: an old-fashioned love of the spine- tingling stories I grew up on, delivered in short, bite-sized letters instead of a whole book at once — something that feels a little more approachable, a little more exciting to open, and hopefully just enough to help a kid fall in love with reading without even realizing that’s what’s happening. 

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Every story is crafted the same way: real suspense, nothing graphic, and a hero who always chooses to trust a grown-up instead of facing the scary thing alone. I want kids to have fun being spooked — not to be genuinely scared of the world, or to feel like the story’s asking them to keep something from the people who care about them.

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If your reader finishes one of these letters a little too excited for the next one to arrive, I’ve done my job.

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— Jason

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