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Not sure what to title this one, but this is my attempt at the style of the awesome Stephen Gammell. His illustrations from the old Scary Stories series are just terrifyingly beautiful. I've been obsessed since I was a kid. If you don't already have the original books, do yourself a favor and get them.

OK so who else read these at sleepovers and got so scare they had to call their mom to take them home? Or perhaps suffered the same ...

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a 1981 collection of creeptastic tales for kids penned by Alvin Schwartz and originally (and fantastically) illustrated by Stephen Gammell. It was…

The best tales from Alvin Schwartz’s classic series are still etched into our memories.

"The Walk" is the second story included in the book Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. A boy's uncle is walking down a lonely road when he comes upon a man who is also walking on the road. The boy's uncle is scared of the man and the man is scared of the uncle but they both keep walking. It is getting dark. They go deep into the woods and they look at each other and are still scared of each other. The man looks at the uncle a third time and the uncle looks at the man a third time and they…

There’s something super unsettling about her smile, like the opposite of Mona Lisa.

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These were the drawings of Stephen Gammell that kept us up at night as kids.

A catchy tune and one of Stephen Gammell’s illustrations from Alvin Schwartz’s trilogy, ‘Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark.’ If you look at the unassuming photo used by publisher Simon and Schuster of illustrator Stephen Gammell, you will, in no way, perceive the smiling, white-bearded and spectacled man was responsible for creating images which have terrorized the minds of children since 1981. But he is, and I hope this helps reinforce the golden rule one should never judge a book (or a…