The Bookish Island's Book Review:
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
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Author: Alvin Schwartz
Illustrated by: Brett Helquist
Series: Scary Stories #1
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Pages: 128
Published: 1981
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publisher: HarperCollins
Genre: Horror, Short Stories, Fiction, Children's, Young Adult
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Date Read: March 1, 2019
Rating: ★★★★☆
This spooky addition to Alvin Schwartz's popular books on American folklore is filled with tales of eerie horror and dark revenge that will make you jump with fright. There is a story here for everyone -- skeletons with torn and tangled flesh who roam the earth; a ghost who takes revenge on her murderer; and a haunted house where every night a bloody head falls down the chimney. Stephen Gammell's splendidly creepy drawings perfectly capture the mood of more than two dozen scary stories -- and even scary songs -- all just right for reading alone or for telling aloud in the dark.
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My Review:
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was awesome!
But I don't really have much to say. I don't carry any nostalgia with these books because I didn't read them when I was younger. Or felt any fear because I had heard some of these stories in other places before I knew they were from this.
Still, the stories were great and the illustrations were fantastic.
Although the illustrations in the edition that I have aren't as scary as the original illustrations. Those were nightmare inducing. And also fantastic.
💀👻💀
But I don't really have much to say. I don't carry any nostalgia with these books because I didn't read them when I was younger. Or felt any fear because I had heard some of these stories in other places before I knew they were from this.
Still, the stories were great and the illustrations were fantastic.
Although the illustrations in the edition that I have aren't as scary as the original illustrations. Those were nightmare inducing. And also fantastic.
💀👻💀
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