Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (hardcover)
collected by Alvin Schwartz, illustrated by Brett Helquist
Harper, an Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
Library of Congress catalog card number:  2009934072
ISBN:  9780060835194

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a classic children's horror collection drawn heavily from folklore and urban legends, the first in a series of three.  This first book contains 29 short stories, including "The Big Toe," "The Thing," "The Haunted House," "The Hearse Song," "The Dead Man's Brains," "The Hook," "High Beams," "The Babysitter," "The Viper" and "The Ghost with the Bloody Fingers." 

The Scary Stories series is listed as being the most challenged series of books from 1990–1999 (for its violence), and continued to rank among the most challenged from 2000–2009 by the American Library Association.  The surreal, nightmarish illustrations contained within are also a frequently challenged component of the original books.  Like most of the challenged, restricted, removed or banned books, Scary Stories rates as a literary high-mark, as well as one of the most widely read and remembered. 

In January, 2016 it was announced that Guillermo del Toro would develop the books for a feature film, adapted by writer John August.

Text Copyright 1981.


CONDITION: 
Mild signs of age/wear.  Pages are white with no writing/markings.