World Famous Comics: More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
By: Alvin Schwartz Publisher: HarperTrophy Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: HarperTrophy Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 112 Publication Date: September 25, 1986 Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: September 25, 1986
All those who enjoyed shuddering their way through Alvin Schwartz's first volume of Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark will find a satisfyingly spooky sequel in this new collection of the macabre, the funny, and the fantastic.
Is it possible to die -- and not know it? What if a person is buried too soon? What happens to a thief foolish enough to rob a corpse, or to a murderer whose victim returns from the grave? Read about these terrifying predicaments as well as what happens when practical jokes produce gruesome consequences and initiations go awry.
Stephen Gammell's splendidly creepy drawings perfectly capture the mood of more than two dozen scary stories -- and even a scary song -- all just right for reading alone or for telling aloud in the dark.
pretty good Yeah I really enjoyed reading this and I recommended this to kids who like this kind of stuff. This wasn't really meant for older people, obviously... But it is still well made and worth reading. I used to read these books when I was little, and I still really like them.
A Fine Introduction to the Art of the Scary Story My honest opinion is that the illustrations are the scariest part of the book. I suppose sense I'm 36 and I love horror (having read a great deal of books and seen even more movies and TV shows which involve scary stories, folklore and urban legend. What Schwartz offers up here seems to be pretty traditional (or standard) urban legend/scary story fare. I think that this series (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, More Scary Stories..., and Scary Stories 3) make a fine introduction to the campfire tales (those stories that have a "jump" at the end), urban legends (the hitchhiker type), and other similar fare for young readers from about age 9-14 or so. Older readers might not be at all scared by simply reading the book, but my understanding is that the audio book (voiced by George S. Irving) is quite good. I intend to give it a listen when it comes in from the library (for all three in this series). Overall, good introduction but I don't get what all the fuss is about and I certainly don't see why anyone would be trying to ban or censor this...there's more graphic and violent/scary stuff on TV. This is definitely worth a read for the "memory lane" feel one might get (I certainly did, there are a number of classics here) and for the illustrations as Gammell certainly has a style that manages to really make one's flesh crawl! I give it four stars...good but not great.
More Scary Stories This is a book about many stories my favorite one is: The Bad News. That is my favorite story because it is about two men that love to play baeball,then they wondered if they played baseball in heaven. So they made a bet, who ever dies first has to come and tell the other one. Then later one died, he came down and told him he had some bad news and some good news. The good news was that there was baseball, but the bad was that...Now you read it to find out!
Murphy's review In the book there are many different stories and many different people. The stories are very detailed and very scary and that is why I liked the book so much.
In one story called "Something Was Wrong," a man known as John Sullivan found himself walking along a street in downtown. He could not explain how he got there. He saw a woman walking down the street so he asked her what time it was. But when the lady turned around, she screamed in horror. I liked this story the best because it has a good twist at the end.
I recommend this book to people that like scary stories such as Goosebumps.
Inspired me When I was three or four, my older sister would show me the pictures in this book and being so scared, I would cry. The images are so strong, they really make the book what it is. When I was 8, I sat there for hours.. staring at the images, afraid that just maybe they were staring back at me too. They hold so much life and creativity, they inspired me. I'm a photographer, and looking at my gallery, I can see where each picture was inspired by this book somehow (my drawings, too).
The stories themselves aren't all that scary, but exciting and morbid. They're descriptive enough, but without going overboard for children.
It gets five stars for being so inspiring to me. One (well, three) of my favorite books ever.
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