Stephen Gammell was the illustrator for my childhood nightmares.
Stephen Gammell was the illustrator for my childhood nightmares.
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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)
8 0 ReplyWhich book is this?
2 0 ReplyFirst book, "The Haunted House"
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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://www.scaryforkids.com/pics/stories-to-tell.jpg I literally threw the book away from me.
8 0 ReplyI will never forget the one where a spider laid an egg sac in a girls cheek
8 0 ReplySo gross! π
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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
6 0 ReplyThey're iconic! Can you believe they tried to republish the series with different artwork a while back!?
3 0 ReplyI saw those, it was made me realize that the pictures carried the book.
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Scary Stories?
5 0 ReplyAye, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. My first step on a long journey of horror reading π
6 0 ReplyHoly 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!
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Fuck you for bringing this back to me. π
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