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Summary: OLD GREAT MEMORIES
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I fell in love with this set when I was younger, I used to scrap up money from my parents and grandparents just to get each book at the book fair at my school, the stories are sooooo awesome and inforgetable!!! And the drawing's are just wicked!!! If you don't have this book set get it!!!!
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Summary: Brings back memories of Halloweens past...
Review: As a kid I loved sitting around reading these, sometimes by myself tucked away in a dark, musty corner, or better yet, on Halloween with friends. OK, so the stories weren't really all that scary, but they are a lot of fun. The illustrations are morbid and occasionally gruesome, and really lend to the atmosphere of "terror." There are tons of other, scarier books on the market, sure, but these are a lot of fun for parents and kids alike. No murdered cheerleaders à la R.L. Stine. Some of my favourite moments include the voice moaning out "Bloody fingers...." and the hippie is just, like, "Get a band-aid, man!" and the Viper ("I'm here to vash and vipe the vindows").These stories were collected from folklore and retold by Alvin Swartz. And you'll find all types of timeless, classic tales in here. Ghost stories, graverobber stories, tales of people raised by wild animals, zombie stories, humourous stories, even modern tales based on urban legends. Each book is prefaced with some history, and their are annoted sources and extensive bibliographies. There are loads of creepy, morbid, and yes, scary illustrations throughout the book in ink and grey watercolour...very gravelike. Some of them still creep me out today years later. Some of them might give you nightmares and resurface in front of you when you're all alone in the dark. To make a scary atmosphere try reading these on a dark, rainy, preferably stormy night by flashlight. Put on Danny Elfman's creepy, creepy soundtrack to "Sleepy Hollow." Listen for unexplained crashes, creaks, and moans in between crashes of thunder...read some more...you will end up scared in the end.
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Summary: Review
Review: As I was growing up, these books were the scariest. Since then, I haven't found any that have given me more chills. They are simple, yet terrifying. I recommend these stories to anyone who wants to experience the same chill.
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Summary: Super Freaky!
Review: First, of all I didn't give it a one because its horrible, I gave it a one because Alvin Schwartz stories are REALLY creepy. And I agree with danny the illustrations are freaky, those alone would make me want to burn the book. And I've reached the college level age and I'm still affraid of those books! lol I have a very low tollerence for horror of any kind....... Some stories aren't that scary their just pretty weird folklore...Like the story of the WolfGirl in vol. 3. Or the Hog... Though Harold was a freakish story....the pictures are the main reason though... ::shivers:: college student and still afraid...lol
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Summary: Genuinely Spooky and Straight From a Line of Tradition
Review: Folklorist Alvin Schwartz displays his knack for carrying on the tradition of storytelling and genuine folklore with these three volumes of "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark," here in a special boxed set. Award-winning illustrator Stephen Gammell's wonderfully chilling pencil drawings go along perfectly with Schwartz's selection of spooky folklore, using a writing style that is delightfully shiver-inducing, sounding as if the story is being told straight from around the camp fire or in a kid's unlit bedroom. These three volumes are essential for keeping the folklore tradition alive.
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Summary: What a bunch of bull.
Review: I am not someone who loves scary stories. But if I can find a good one, then I will read it. I read these as a child, and I still have nightmares about one of the illustrations. The stories are extremely frightening, and the illustrations are disgusting. Some of the stories are completely distasteful and should not be read by any child under 12. PERIOD.
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Summary: Goosebumps wishes it were this series
Review: I can't tell you how sad it is that while the utterly horrid Goosebumps series got huge media exposure and mainstreem success, including 2 tv series', this series was pretty much unheard of in my area. The stories are great, aside from a select few, but I agree with some of the other reviews in that the illustrations are utterly horrifying! Words don't do them justice. I don't see why they have previews of books with just words and they leave the pictures in this book unnoticed. When I was in 4th grade, I was so freaked out by them that If I saw a picture through a page that was especially scary I'd skip to a differen story. Even the ones from the funny stories were sometimes scary. Read these.
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Summary: Helpfully Morbid
Review: I encountered the first book when I was 6 years old. The intense drawings are still a big influence on me today. I had never seen anything like it. The stories are good and frightening but without the nightmares Gammell lays out for the reader they would be nothing. These books could only help to fuel a creative soul.
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Summary: "Harold" still gives me chills, 10 years after I read it!!
Review: I grew up loving these books, and have many a fond memory of reading them by flashlight at sleepovers and scaring my friends. I even had a scary-story themed birthdy party once, where we sat in the dark and my mom read some of the stories by flashlight and then passed around bowls of peeled grapes (eyeballs) and pasta (guts), even jell-o (brains). We had a lot of good screams that night! I would reccomend these stories to any kid, or to any parent to buy for their kid. They're terrifying, the illustrations are gruesome, but they fuel the imagination unlike any other kid-themed horror story I've ever read, and I read 'em all in my day. I found that the story "Harold" disturbed me the most, and every now and then my mind will wander to it and I'll shudder. There's something to be said for a story that still has the power to unsettle ten years after it's been read.
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Summary: So sad.
Review: I had this once and I got rid of it!!!!!! I still regret it and I'm going to order a new one. DON'T pass this up! It's a great book. Has the old stories and some new ones(well, new twists from when it was made). It was a sad, sad day when I got rid of the box set I had. My brother was sad too. I think he may have hated me for a brief second.;)
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