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Summary: Hooray!
Review: First off, let me state that I am so glad I am in far into college now. Luckily, I was in 4th grade at the right time I bought this from one of those Scholastic order sheets (remember those?), almost ten years ago before special interest groups got on the "ban everything we deem offensive or intelligent to children" bandwagon.Anyways, I recently found this book in a box of old books and, looking through it, it was just as chilling to the spine now as it was around 8 or so years ago when I was a wee lad. Of course, now I'm 19 and the stories seem sort of not so scary, but that's just my picky-eating with dark literature (being more accustomed to Lovecraft and more sophisticated horror and all that). However, the charcoal drawings are what make this book what it is. Stephen Gammell (does he have an online gallery or a book full of illustrations like this? i'm soon checking!) has done an excellent job at creating immensly subtly-disturbing visuals with his illustration skills that seems to amplify the effect of the otherwise cheesy (but still fun) bonfire horror stories. If the stories don't scare the bejesus out of you, the ghostly apparitions and deformed nightmarish landscapes portrayed within the illustrations will definately make you want to buy several halogen lamps and keep them turned on at night with perhaps a garlic necklace around you when you go to sleep. If I recall, the scariest illustration was a full-page charcoal drawing next to a story called "Oh, Suzannah!", almost like something weird going on in a parallel supernatural dimension from some mental patient's hallucinatory nightmare. Either way, this book has redeeming qualities for both folk/urban literature enthusiasts as well as dark-fantasy-art enthusiasts. I heavily recommend it!
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Summary: It'll stick with you
Review: I first read this book in thrid grade. it was a huge hit at our school. This one and the two others that follow it were always checked out in the library. I am 16 now and still love this book. It's one you'll never forget i promise
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Summary: INSANELY SCARY,MAN!
Review: This book is scary stuff! I read a story, "Me-Tie-Doughty-Walker" that scared the stuffing out of me! Now I'm in seventh grade, and the book still gives me chills when I'm reading it alone! The pictures are so trippy and disturbingly graphic!
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Summary: Great read-aloud -- Scary and Imaginative
Review: My 5&6 year old practically have the book memorized. The drawings are really spooky (make sure you tell the little ones it's only make believe. We've read the book now 10 times over. I find it a little scary myself!
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Summary: great stories wonderful art
Review: I have had this book for so long it is falling apart, part of the book's poor shape has to do with repeated reading. I am in my mid-twenties and I still remember the hearse song word-for-word. The illustrations will make your skin crawl. This is a classic book.
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Summary: Spooky stories, Creepy illustrations
Review: This is certainly one of the best book-fair purchases I even made in grade school. It's one of the few books I still have from those days, at least :)
It contains an eclectic collection of old and new folk tales ranging from the disturbing to the scary to the silly. The illustrations do a wonderful job of capturing the mood and essence of the stories.
I liked the stories and illustrations so much, I got them tattooed on my arm :)
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Summary: Very creepy stories; frightening art.
Review: I first read these books when they were originally published, in 1986, when I was 13. The stories are mostly folklore, which I was familiar with, but the pictures added a new, grisly dimension of horror. I recently dug the books out of storage, and at 25, I still find them incredibly creepy! I think perhaps the age range is a bit low--the drawings are quite graphic in their depiction of rotting corpses and strange, amorphous beings floting through the night--but still, they are wonderful little books for a budding horror enthusiast like I was! I think, however, they'll be packed away until my 20 month old girl is about 14 years old....
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Summary: Good book for elementary students
Review: The book that I read Scary Stories to tell in the dark is a good book for kids who still believe in ghost and the others things. If you're going to read it to your brother or sister then it might be an interesting book for you. Just to give you a hint of what kinds of stories it has.One of them is The attic, another is The Viper and there are so many more.
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Summary: a scaaaaaaaaaaaaary book.....
Review: I didn't know whether to give it five stars for the authors' success of creating perfect horror or no stars for frightening the bajeebas out of me years ago. to tell you the truth, i haven't read it since then. the pictures were terrifying! and i remember...this picture. is there a story called the Haunted House? if so, i think i remember the most horrifying picture in the world in the content of that story. i'm going to rent it again, now that im 17, but im still a taaaad afraid. anway, its pretty impressive if you like that sort of thing!
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Summary: On of the best "scary" books I can remember.
Review: This was my favorite book all through 4th, 5th and 6th grades. I would borrow it from the library at the beginning of the year and renew it until the end of the year. It contains some of the best ghost stories EVER. It's a great read on a rainy day, a stormy night or on Halloween. Now that I am in college, I find that my friends had this book as well and LOVED it. I can't wait until my own copy comes in and I can share it with my friends and someday my children.
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