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Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark is a series of three children's books written by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by Stephen Gammell. The scary stories of the title are pieces of folklore collected and adapted by Schwartz. Their titles are Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark, More Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark, and Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones. The first volume was published in 1986, and the books have subsequently been collected in both a box set and a single volume.
Content
The tales are a mix of traditional ghost stories and more modern urban myths. The subject matter ranges from haunted house and graveyard tales to stories of the vanishing hitchhiker. Many of the contemporary tales center on the theme of dangerous and frightening urban environments, like cities and universities. Each book is also notable for including a selection of humorous ghost stories in the last chapter as well as a selection of songs.
Beyond the stories themselves, the books have two notable features: exhaustively researched and annotated notes and sources sections, and disturbing and evocative illustrations by Gammell.
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#lovestories... bah. i prefer scary stories :]
eme_lui (aimee evangelista) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:22:04 -0000
#lovestories... bah. i prefer scary stories :]
@krist0ph3r No more scary bus stories please. IT is my first time in a bus to anywhere! except Pune of course! @andreaclear
rashirv (Rashi) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:11:11 -0000
@krist0ph3r No more scary bus stories please. IT is my first time in a bus to anywhere! except Pune of course! @andreaclear
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