Scary Stories Box Set: Complete Collection with Brett Helquist Art

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Excellent collection of short stories that really are devilishly good! I wish I read this as a child because I would have loved it, but as an adult I'm really enjoying them. From 1 page stories and poems to long tales and even scary games to play, these have a variety of really demented ideas that any child and adult would love- especially around Halloween time, but they're good to read at any time, as long as it's in the dark! This collection features the entire original trilogy of books complete with original horrifying artwork by Stephem Gammel (it's probably better to buy this as buying the 3 books separately can be quite expensive- this collection has everything).Suitable for all ages (though young kids will find them terrifying, they'll love it too as that's the point!)

It’s coming up to Halloween and so I needed to get my scare on, so this was one of the books I decided to read. This is a collection of the three books, put into one to form this collection.The first book in this collection (Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark) started off as a disappointment and was different to what I was expecting it to be like. There were instructions for you to give when you TELL these stories to people, like where you should speak louder, scream, jump etc, which distracted me from what I actually wanted, which was to read the stories. It took me out of that atmosphere and ruined those stories for me. These types of stories did slowly fade and you had the illustrations to always drag you back in. Overall, I gave Book 1, 3 stars.Moving on to Book 2 (More Scary Stories), this is where I started to properly enjoy this collection and really race through the stories. There are several from this book that have just stuck with me and will do because of how normal they seemed and until boom. Plus because of how it could actually happen, which is the scariest thing for me. I rated this book 4 stars out of five.The final book is this collection, Book 3 (More Tales to Chill Your Bones) was my absolute favourite. I was just completely into this collection at this point, I’m in ashamed to say, with all the stories, the illustrations, and I was sharing some of my favourites with people. Be warned, some people might not like you sharing some of these at night, especially those who don’t like horror to begin with! I did, I found it funny. There were even some longer stories that in this third book that you invested more time in and had more build up and more story to, which was strange as I believe this was the shortest out of the three. I took this book to work with me just so that I could finish the last few stories during my break. I rated this the highest at 4.5 stars.I did sadly have to keep reminding myself that these stories weren’t true, even though I’m sure I read that it said that some of them were. Brilliant stories (some of them) with the illustrations to match. Started out disappointing but finished on a high note. There’s even more included after the stories, a section on the Forklore, myths and etc for you to dive into and explore.

Bought this while it was still at a very low price for what it is, and its great. I went for the hardback with the dust jacket to avoid the possible risk of not getting the original illustrations in it, I reccomend it. Good for stories you either want to read in your own head in your own time or stories you could get out on Halloween and read outloud to your friends or kids for some little scares.

Bought for myself and thoroughly enjoyed reading them. Only problem I had was that the sleeve around the books was far too tight when all three books were in it. I had difficulty getting a book out of it without damaging the sleeve or the book itself, I ended up throwing the sleeve in the end. The books themselves are brilliant, and the accompanying illustrations are wonderfully done.

This is actually a collection of many very short stories. Most of them are actually more on the funny side. These are ideal stories that you can remember and re tell to friends, to given them a jump scare or a laugh. In that respect , my 11 year old loved it.