

a retelling of the legend of Croglin Grange.a cautionary tale involving a girl playing a drum.a retelling of the Legend of the Mistletoe Bough.ghost stories, including a vanishing hitchhiker story.The second book contains 28 stories, including: and a selection of jokes and humorous folktales.a number of urban legends, including the legends of the hook, the poison dress, the killer in the backseat, and the babysitter and the man upstairs.a retelling of Algernon Blackwood's novella The Wendigo.a story of a man who shapeshifts into an alligator.ghost stories, including a retelling of The Suffolk Miracle.jump stories (stories that end with a jump scare).The first book contains 29 stories that Schwartz collected from folklore books, collections, and archives, as well as from interviews with informants. Ī film adaptation of the same name was released on Augto generally favorable reviews from critics. They have collectively been hailed as a "cultural touchstone for a generation", with the original charcoal and ink artwork by Gammell often singled out for praise. The audiobooks are presented in unabridged format with the exception of a handful of missing stories from the first book.Īs of 2017, the books had collectively sold more than seven million copies, and appeared on numerous children's best-seller lists. There is also an audiobook version of each book, read by George S. The first volume was published in 1981, and the books have subsequently been collected in both a box set and a single volume.

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Author Schwartz drew heavily from folklore and urban legends as the topic of his stories, researching extensively and spending more than a year on writing each book. The three books each feature numerous short stories in the horror genre. The titles of the books are Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1981), More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1984), and Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones (1991). Subsequent printings have restored the original Gammell art. In 2011, HarperCollins published editions featuring new art by Brett Helquist, causing mass controversy amongst fans of Gammell.
#Scary stories to tell in the dark cast pale lady series
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a series of three collections of short horror stories for children, written by Alvin Schwartz and originally illustrated by Stephen Gammell.
