More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

'The big toe' y 'The walk', los primeros dos, fueron muy simples pero altamente disfrutables, dos historias para hacerte saltar de miedo. Cada historia dos páginas cuando mucho y algunas fotos acompañando cada historia.Įl libro empezó bien. Una colección de cuentos cortos de horror para asustarte hasta perder el sentido, y algunas para hacerte reir. PERSONAL NOTE: Ī veces estás a punto de ver una pelicula cuando de repente te das cuenta de que está basado en un libro. Maybe I should have read the whole series before watching the movie. 'The big toe' was there, and several more included or mentioned, but I was surprised by the amount of stuff I did not recognize. *** The movie (2019) was average, or a bit below average (5.5/10). I think this book can be awesome if you are a kid, but sadly I think I have outgrown child horror stories. Unfortunately the rest of the stories, which were plenty, were unremarkable or plainly forgettable, and a few of them simply a complete waste of time. 'Cold as clay' and 'The girl who stood on a grave' were also good. 'The big toe' and 'The walk', the first two, were very simple and highly enjoyable, two stories to make you jump scare. Each story two pages at most and some eerie pictures accompanying each one. Sometimes you choose to care.Ī collection of short horror stories to scare you senseless, and some to make you laugh. Sometimes you are about to watch a movie when you suddenly realize it is based on a book. This review has also been posted to: Busty Book Bimbo Perhaps for when I write a real review for the real version of this book, the only one that counts, the only one that should be bought and gifted to any young person seeking his or her gateway drug into the realm of the macabre. I was going to rant here about our ill-conceived, often hypocritical efforts to 'protect' our children and censor their reading materials, but I'll save that for another day. Who thought this was a good idea? I'm incensed, especially for all the kids who might pick up this book expecting to have the bejeebers scared out of them and wind up merely bored or slightly amused. Without Gammell's drawings, this collection loses its bloody, beating heart and is barely worth the paper it's printed on. You don't mess with perfection and genius.

The reason the original 1981 edition became an instant classic and a frequently challenged book in schools and libraries was for Stephen Gammell's ghoulish and nightmarish artwork.

To say that it's been sanitized for safe consumption is an understatement. My edition is the 2010 'updated' version published by Harper Collins with new illustrations by Brett Helquist. I'm not giving any stars here, only a warning: beware which edition of this collection you choose, for if you choose unwisely, you will be sorely ripped off in more ways than one.

More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz