I got a Haliborange tablet (assume from halibut liver oil) which was like a yummy sweet.
I remember those well. They were like medicinal orange Smarties, though a bit smaller. The orange flavour was concentrated in the outside shell, iirc; chewing them would unleash the fishy goodness from within. At least, they did not have liquid centres! At other periods, we were dosed with Brewers' Yeast tablets and a Cinnamon Essence, all, presumably, to stave off coughs and colds.
Back to scary/non-scary things. I have been trying to find the illustration which scared and fascinated me as a kid in school. Maybe it was really scary but I think it just belonged to that Victorian/Edwardian school of fairy and fantasy art. The book was a cheap schools-edition of John Ruskin's fable The King of the Golden River and the scene was of two old kitchen pots floating down a stream.
But they had faces! Bulbous and hideous faces!
I would go to that book, frequently, just to assure myself that the faces were still there, being evil. They never let me down, sending me off, with a perverse frisson, to read another book in order to forget . . .


