Alvin Schwartz "Scary Stories ..."

[fruittrees]

I recall as a kid reading these books and enjoying both the stories and the illustrations. Anyone else read these before?

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[Dead Guy]

I had them when I was a kid too. I love them. He has a series of three. I bought them for my son (4 yrs) this past Halloween.

I read him maybe three stories before my wife put a stop to it.

He slept in our bed till Christmas.

"The Brown Suit" has got to be my favorite.

[onekatietwo]

The kid with that series was always the hippest dude or chick on the playground, for sure. Love those.

[Dead Guy]

Along these same lines, but dealing more with human depravity than the supernatural, are some wonderful stories from none other than the author of [i]Charlie and the Chocolate Factory[/i] and [i]James and the Giant Peach[/i], Roald Dahl.

[i]Tales of the Unexpected[/i], though it does not contain the fantastic illustrations that [i]Scary Stories[/i] does, is a brilliantly written collection of short stories whose main subjects are deception, death/murder, unfortunate circumstances, and silliness. I read these before I ever made the connection to his children's literature. I get a lot of the same feelings reading these stories as an adult as I did when I was a kid reading the Schwartz books.

Anyone else a fan?

[fruittrees]

I know I have slews of these books on the subject of scary stories. I know I grew up around them and read alot of horror books as well (Stamper, King, Bradbury, Poe, Koontz, Barker, etc.). For me the fascinating stuff was like ghost lore and Daniel Cohen stuff (bloody mary) ..

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[Emily]

Oh wow, I loved those books. I still have them somewhere. Those illustrations were pretty darn scary too.

[DanielleRVA]

I had all of these. Great books.