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Title: Scary Stories Boxed Set by Alvin Schwartz, Stephen Gammell ISBN: 006440465X Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: 04 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.97 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88
Rating: 5
Summary: Goosebumps wishes it were this series
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: ahhhh grusome memories :)
Comment: Well...myself like pretty much every single reviewer on here are fans of this series from childhood. I read this trilogy sometime around 3rd grade. I remember sitting in my room with the lights off..with a flashlight and reading until I got frightened outta my jammies. The stories are so-so ,even as a kid the stories alone were just entertaining. The illustrations however..gave me NIGHTMARES!!..I mean c'mon just look at them..what 9 year old wouldn't get nightmares..they're extremely grusome and gross..I LOVE EM!!. I'm so glad I found this box set , when I was a kid my mother thought these stories were a bad influence on me because she found a collection of stories I had written that "disturbed" her , so she threw these books away. Reading these now at the age of 20 bring back the days when children's horror stories were actually scary instead of moronic (Goosebumps , ect)..where a illustration scared a kid to death rather than them just taking up space. I want my children to have these. Children need a good scare. Beyond the imagery of death and decay , alot of these stories can teach valuable warnings to children such as "don't talk to strangers" and "stay away from this" and ect,ect. It's sad i've read where these books are being banned for "warping the mind's of children"..ha the Nickelodean channel has been doing that for decades...allow your children to read these books. Horror literature for kid's doesn't get much better than this
Rating: 5
Summary: Brings back memories of Halloweens past...
Comment: 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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Title: Favorite Scary Stories of American Children by Richard Young, Judy Dockrey Young, Donald Bell ISBN: 0874835631 Publisher: August House Pub Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz, Dirk Zimmer ISBN: 0064440907 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: October, 1985 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark by Alvin Schwartz, Stephen Gammell ISBN: 0064401774 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Campfire Stories: Things That Go Bump in the Night (Campfire Storytelling Series, V. 1) by William W., M.D. Forgey ISBN: 0934802238 Publisher: ICS Books Pub. Date: July, 1985 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Scary Stories 3 : More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz, Stephen Gammell ISBN: 0064404188 Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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