Scary stories to tell in the dark. Storie spaventose da raccontare al buio

Sometimes you are about to watch a movie when you suddenly realize it is based on a book. Sometimes you choose to care. A collection of short horror stories to scare you senseless, and some to make you laugh. Each story two pages at most and some eerie pictures accompanying each one. The book star

This was so fun! I can see why so many people say this scared them as a kid. The illustrations alone had me 🫣🫣🫣

In anticipation of the new movie, I dusted this off and made the foolish decision of reading in an empty house, well past the twilight hour. About halfway I got too creeped out to continue. Had to finish the rest this morning. These stories are SCARY. Something about the nonchalant way horror happens Leggi tutto

While the nightmare fuel that is Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is more silly nostalgia to me now than actual frights, nothing held a grip on me quite like these books when I was a kid. Especially Stephen Gammell’s illustrations, which still pop into my mind like intrusive ghosts Leggi tutto

The illustrations were the really scary part of these books. I remember being afraid to turn the page and look at the next one when I was a kid, peeling the next page over gradually like a Band-Aid. One pictured effed me up so badly I had to tape a piece of construction paper over it so I could flip Leggi tutto

This is a very beloved book from my childhood, along with it's two sequels. I'm still not entirely sure why I love something so much that gave me several serious complexes that continue into adulthood, but I guess I'm just twisted like that. I chose to reread these books due to the Scary Stories movi Leggi tutto

Confession time: I was a scared kid growing up. And I mean fucking terrified. My imagination was fertile, and it tended to grow dark twisted things with thorns that were poisonous to my thoughts, vines of blackened fish-hooks that would creep over me like ivy and ensnare my mind, body, and soul. My