His artwork is like a splinter in my mind… a splinter I truly and greatly cherish.
This pic always fucked me up as a kid (only pic I could find)
Which book is this?
First book, “The Haunted House”
I will never forget the one where a spider laid an egg sac in a girls cheek
So gross! 😝
One of the first jumpscares I ever experienced was flipping to a random page in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and seeing this face. https://lemmy.kya.moe/imgproxy?src=www.scaryforkids.com%2fpics/stories-to-tell.jpg I literally threw the book away from me.
I remember the stories themselves being so tame compared the illustrations. I can barely remember the stories but the pictures are forever burned into my mind
They’re iconic! Can you believe they tried to republish the series with different artwork a while back!?
I saw those, it was made me realize that the pictures carried the book.
Scary Stories?
Aye, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. My first step on a long journey of horror reading 📚
Holy crap, did you know they made a movie about this a few years ago? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_Stories_to_Tell_in_the_Dark_(film)
Thanks for the memory haha, I remember reading these in school as a kid. Gonna have to find the whole series!
The movie was okay. Thought they nailed the aesthetic but didn’t quite catch the vibe.
Yeah, I just watched it. As a fan of the books when I was a kid it was definitely creepy at times, but I kinda feel the same. Maybe it would have been a lot better if it was an anthology of dedicated stories being told around a campfire, or something like that.
Man, those books really did a number on me as a kid.
Fuck you for bringing this back to me. 😟
