[audiotragedi]

This is my first post so I hope I'm in the right place.

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark is a series of three children's books written by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by Stephen Gammell. The scary stories of the title are pieces of folklore and urban legends collected and adapted by Schwartz.

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). The first volume was published in 1981, and the books have subsequently been collected in both a box set and a single volume.

This series is listed as being the most challenged series of books from 1990–1999 and seventh most challenged from 2000-2009 by the American Library Association for its violence. The surreal and nightmarish illustrations contained within are also a frequently challenged component of the original books.

Reprints of the books with new illustrations by Brett Helquist have been published in 2011. To celebrate the books' 30th anniversary, Scholastic re-released them with new illustrations from Brett Helquist, the illustrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events. This has come under severe criticism from fans of Gammell's illustrations, citing that they are not as effective or as scary as the originals.

Here, for your viewing pleasure are some of the original illustrations...

I hope that this isn't a re-post either.
I would very much like to find the originals to buy and not the re-release.

Original wikipedia article here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_S...ll_in_the_Dark

I Hope you all enjoyed :)

[Faline]

Excellent images, great mind. Thanks for posting

[icheerthebull]

wow great images had never hear of this series before

[Hobbslefthand]

Good books. They turn up on ebay frequently.

[bob351]

Holy crap this takes me back, we had this book in our primary school library and we weren't allowed to take it out unless we were in gr 7 or 8... we would always read it and look at the pics.

Still remember the invisible dog and the spiders inside the girls face quite vividly.

Nice post, now I am all nostalgic.

[Gh007]

love these books, i think the illustrations are proper art in thier own right... good post

[dcaccount22]

I had all of these books I loved them the pictures freaked me out

[Arkoquisa]

I still have my copies

[Space Particle]

The lady with the long scraggly hair used to freak me out, I think the title was "the dream".

[Darkest Angel]

I had the one that had "wendingo" but read all of them. Great stories.