Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

[Gaius Hermicus]

So, it looks like the SStTitD series is getting a movie this year.

Yikes.

[JoshL]

There are a few teasers that are absolutely SOLID! Easily the film I'm looking forward to the most this year!

[Gaius Hermicus]

I'll watch it, under one condition.

It must not, under any circumstances, contain any elements of the story "Wonderful Sausage".

I think that story left me medically traumatized when I read it as a child. I didn't eat ground meat for two months after reading it, and even though I'm a big fan of King, Poe, and Lovecraft now, I still flinch and look behind me every time I hear the words "wonderful sausage".

It haunts my nightmares...

[Magic_Hat]

So, it looks like the SStTitD series is getting a movie this year.

Yikes.

What is this? What's going on? Is there a trailer or something that could help me understand the work(s) in question? What's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark?

[Mith]

What is this? What's going on? Is there a trailer or something that could help me understand the work(s) in question? What's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark?

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is (IMO) a collection of horror stories that were marketed for children in the 80s and 90s.

I word it like that because the stories were pretty creepy no matter your age, and that's before the amazing artwork comes into play. Even though they are children stories, I do recommend tracking down a copy if you can. I think they are worth a read.

I really am not a big fan of horror, but I make an exception for these stories.

[TripleD]

I word it like that because the stories were pretty creepy no matter your age, and that's before the amazing artwork comes into play. Even though they are children stories, I do recommend tracking down a copy if you can. I think they are worth a read.

I re-read it as an adult and honestly, they are pretty mild. A lot of them are just “spooky” folk
tales that, without the art, aren’t particularly memorable.

Now “Bone-Chilling Tales of Fright”? Those stories are still pretty freaky as an adult.

[Mith]

I re-read it as an adult and honestly, they are pretty mild. A lot of them are just “spooky” folk
tales that, without the art, aren’t particularly memorable.

Now “Bone-Chilling Tales of Fright”? Those stories are still pretty freaky as an adult.

Fair enough. I count the art as part of the experience for those stories. It could be when I re read them later, I was treating it more as an art collection with a story attached rather than a story collection. That sort of lets your imagination fill in the flaws of the actual stories.

[Rater202]

I mean, they're campfire stories. the whole point is that they're scary but not so scary as to traumatize the elementary schoolers that are read them(in most cases, exceptions exist.)

[TripleD]

Fair enough. I count the art as part of the experience for those stories. It could be when I re read them later, I was treating it more as an art collection with a story attached rather than a story collection. That sort of lets your imagination fill in the flaws of the actual stories.

Oh the art is definitely unsettling and terrifiying. It was only when I took the art away (I was planning to use copies of certain stories for a Halloween unit with my ESL class) that I realized the stories read very differently without them.

[Magic_Hat]

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is (IMO) a collection of horror stories that were marketed for children in the 80s and 90s.

I word it like that because the stories were pretty creepy no matter your age, and that's before the amazing artwork comes into play. Even though they are children stories, I do recommend tracking down a copy if you can. I think they are worth a read.

I really am not a big fan of horror, but I make an exception for these stories.

Kind of like a proto R.L. Stine's Goosebumps?

[TripleD]

Kind of like a proto R.L. Stine's Goosebumps?

Sort of. The book is a collection of short stories as opposed to the novel format used by Stine.

[Gaius Hermicus]

Kind of like a proto R.L. Stine's Goosebumps?

Except far more terrifying.