In any event, my personal favorite episode are probably the one where a guy who kind of looks like actor Dylan Minette was to play Macduff in a school play of Macbeth in order to get closer to the girl he had a crush on (totally understandable

), but he is stalked by an angry ghost who died generations earlier before he got a chance to play Macbeth on that same stage, so the protagonist has to convince the girl he likes - who is playing Lady Macbeth - to help him find a way to fend the ghost off, although of course she does not believe him at first. I believe it was called The Tale of the Walking Shadow.
Another favorite is The Tale of the Last Dance, where an actress I also had a crush on, Jennifer Finnigan, plays a violin prodigy who gets no appreciation from her boyfriend for her intelligence and skills, as he thinks stuff like playing an instrument is a waste of time, but a weirdo who lives in the school basement appreciates her musical abilities just a little too much, and kidnaps her during the school dance, Phantom of the Opera style. There was actually a scene in it that I found genuinely creepy as a teenager when I first saw it (this episode came out around 2000, I think, in the revived seasons of the show where the actress I described earlier to
@GodDoesListen55 who I have always liked, Vanessa Lengies, was a member of the Midnight Society), where the Phantom expy who stalks the violinist girl deters one of her friends from looking for her when she disappeared from the dance by pouring red paint from the vents on her. Since it was obviously supposed to be symbolic of blood (but of course they couldn't actually say that it was, being a kids' horror show), it actually rattled me a bit.

I never saw Jennifer Finnigan in anything else to my memory, but, she was definitely a cutie, and I always thought of her when imagining my personal favorite character Jersey Heartshorn that I created for the RPGMaker game that a longtime friend and I once made, a traditional fantasy RPG titled Arc Arath, as played by a live-action actress. You may remember my bringing that up that game from time to time here in the past.
This is Jennifer:
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And this is Jersey:
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Every fan of Are You Afraid of the Dark seems to be in agreement that The Tale of the Dead Man's Float was among the most well-remembered and scariest in the entire history of the show, though, pretty much entirely due to the top-quality makeup effects on the villainous ghost of the episode. Kind of reminded me of the Predator, actually.
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