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Summary: This is an amazing collection of folklore!!!
Review: This book came out a long time ago. I read it when it first came out and it introduced me into the world of ghosts and and lore. I was 12 years old then in 1982 and even now when I pick it up to read....it still takes me back to the feeling...when I first picked it up and sent shivers down my spine...in a fun way of course. The stories and the drawings were perfect together. A great book. I have all 3 volumes now and I hope he comes out with a 4th one soon.Thanks Alvin and Stephen for scaring the pants off of me when I was 12.
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Summary: Do you love to scare yourself?
Review: I am now 20-years old, and over the weekend I enjoyed a bonfire with family. Everyone wanted to hear a scary story, but no one could remember any good ones. I immediately thought of this book, and regret not still having it. Moms, dads, kids, librarians! THIS IS THE BEST BOOK for anyone who likes an ORIGINAL, old-fashioned scary story to tell in the dark! When I was around ten-years old, every single time I went to the library I would look for Schwartz's name in the card catlaog. Please, please delight your kid(s) with the best scary stories ever!! Seeing the illustrations alone could creep anyone out. I know it sounds like I'm really trying to sell this book, but TRUST ME, I'm not related to or friends with anyone that makes money off this book. I just want kids everywhere to have the same fond and freaky memories!
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Summary: A Great Collection Of Scary Stories
Review: This book is excellent! The stories are great for all ages and the drawings are superb! I recommend this book to anyone who is looking for fun and creepy stories about ghosts, graves, and witches. The other two books "More Scary Stories To Tell in The Dark" and "Scary Stories Three" are almost equally as good. All three books make a great library of creepy tales and haunting drawings!
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Summary: Great!
Review: I've loved this book and the other two books in this series since I was pretty young. The stories are great, and the drawings are misty and eerie, and give the book just the right atmosphere
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Summary: Scary when I was little, not years later.
Review: This is the short story collection for those who were horror writers that became horror writers when they graduated high school in the 1990s, and the question of what they had in their collection during the time when growing up -- it was these books for me that set it all up before I read JAWS and H.P. Lovecraft's short stories. There were these stories that really set the tone for me; and I recommend them for a newer generation of writers and those who really like a good ghost story to scare the crap out of them.
This book is a lot of fun and I wish I still had my copies of them but when I moved to Iowa they were left behind. I remember the book as a whole but the collection which calls to mind is the hearse song; I found myself whistling that thing from time to time, so if you hear the kids on here reviewing this book listen to them because they know what they are talking about when doing a review of this book. Take it from a horror writer as well, this book is well worth what ever you spend on it. I would spend at least $20 on the whole set because they are a collectors item. I remember when I was in school and these books have a hard time staying in the shelves; it was these books that basically will play into my life at age 20, then when I think about them now I still smile about it.
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Summary: Scary Storys to tell in the dark
Review: YOU HAVE TO SEE HOW SCARY LOOKING THE PICTURES ARE IN ALL OF THE BOOKS!!!! THAT COULD DEFINETELY GIVE YOU NIGHTMARES FOR A WHILE.EVEN IN SOME STORIES. THERE WAS NOT A PICTURE OF THE WENDINGO, BUT THE BACK OF THE BOOK SAID IT WAS A FEMALE SPIRIT, AND/OR A CANNIBAL GIANT THAT KILLS FOR HUMAN FLESH AND ANTHROPOLOGISTS DESCRIBED INDIANS WANTING TO EAT FLESH AS A "WENDIGO PSYCHOSIS". {I'm sure that's how you spell that word}.
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Summary: Good old spook stories
Review: This is a book of collected folk tales and legends that I bet most people have heard in one variation or another. They are seperated in catagories such as stories you can actaually tell your self; another with ghost stories; miscellaneous scary stories about being baried alive, witches, and so on; and finally a chapter with more humor minded outcomes. There is also brief notes on where these stories come from and on their variations. These are very brief stories, in fact I read the whole book (about 90 something pages) in a night. Some of the stories are really spooky (especially a driver being chased by a man with his brightlights on). The illustrations by Stephen Gammell were really stark, very newspaper-ish. If you are interested in scary, could be true stories, than you will be hard pressed to find a better anthology. By the way, the same star rating goes for the other two books, "More Stories to Tell in the Dark", and "Scary Stories 3: More Stories to Chill Your Bones", both of them by Alvin Schwartz.
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Summary: I am still totally creeped out.
Review: So ten or fifteen years ago, when I was in elementary school, this was definitely the NUMBER ONE MOST FREQUENTLY CHECKED-OUT LIBRARY BOOK, EVER. If you wanted this book in your hot little hand for just two days, you had to stand at the counter and wait for someone to turn it back in, just so you could snatch it up before the librarian got it back onto the shelf. No joke. America's a young country, of course, so our idea of "American folklore" often falls into the sphere of Urban Legend. That doesn't mean this book is any less literary, of course: children will learn what REAL short story pacing is, thanks to Alvin Schwartz's suspenseful collection of concise, tense, and often outright nightmarish stories. But the real thing that will haunt kids a decade or two later will be Stephen Gammell's illustrations. Yipes! I've asked my peers, and not one of us has forgotten those awful, macabre, dripping-flesh-decay illustrations. Ick! Just remembering this book gives me the creeps! But parents, don't worry: this book is a must-have for any well-rounded childhood, so long as you don't mind sharing your bed with your kid for a week or two.
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