![]() ![]() ![]() Schwartz’s process includes reading his writing aloud to himself in the bathroom (“because the acoustics are so good”). Vardell writes: “Who has done for folklore for children in the United States what the Grimm brothers did in Germany…? Alvin Schwartz, that’s who!” As the children’s literature scholar Sylvia M. Schwartz, the man behind your childhood nightmares, was in fact a scholarly folklorist, author of more than fifty books, and the father to four children, who helped him to develop his work. ![]() Upon reexamination in the light, these stories are as simple and plainly told as folktales and urban legends. To Schwartz’s readers, hitchhikers, scarecrows, skin bumps, and green ribbons never looked the same. Written by Alvin Schwartz -and distinguished by Stephen Gammell’s gruesome illustrations -the original series of Scary Stories books (published in 1981, 1984, and 1991) were fervently swapped at school libraries and sleepovers alike. The new movie Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, from André Øvredal and Guillermo del Toro, has kids of the 80s and 90s reminiscing about the terrifying source material. ![]()
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