He manages to find a guide named DeFago and during their travels they set up camp near a frozen lake. It’s about a wealthy hunter who travels to a remote part of Canada where nobody ever hunts because apparently he’s a real smart guy. It was Schwartz’s trilogy that dug deep into your childhood skull, making you worry if spiders really could live inside your cheek or whether you should check the back seat of Mom’s car for murderers.Ī post shared by RedHeart13 Jewelry starting off strong but Jesus Christ, I remember this one scaring me so badly when I read it the first time that I put the book down and wouldn’t touch it for a week. “Goosebumps”? Good for a few scares (and occasionally a few laughs) but it didn’t keep you awake at night. “Are You Afraid Of The Dark”? Creepy, but you could still sleep with the lights off. Whether it was the open-endedness of a tale that really got you or the drippy, gruesome illustrations by Stephen Gammell, “Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark” left all the other ’90s kids horror in the dust.
Alvin Schwartz’s “Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark” series was, at its heart, a repackaging of folk tales, urban legends, and campfire ghost stories - but to the wide-eyed gaze of a child in the days before the internet, these books were the holy grail of scaring yourself shitless. They were elementary school hot commodities usually you had to sign up on the library’s waiting list just to get your hands on a copy. If you grew up in the 1990s, you knew them.