Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Review
By: Nik S If you were born sometime between the 1980s and the 1990s then you have certainly seen this book series at the Scholastic book fairs. That haunting image of a giant skull dressed as a clown has been seared into the memories of so many people. The books themselves contained, well, scary stories to tell in the dark (hence the title). They were ghost stories to tell your friends around a campfire or during a sleepover. Each story didn't take long and was at max five or six pages long, but some of those stories stuck with the readers. So it was a huge surprise when Guillermo del Toro announced that he would be producing a movie of the same name. Many Millenials and Gen Xers alike were ecstatic for this release, because who knows which ghosts and creatures we'd see on the big screen. With Stephen Gammel's original artwork, the designs would be pretty easy for the movie to use. Six of the over 80 stories were put into the main story of the movie (with a few o...
