BOO! Halloween is just around the corner. What better way to spend this spooky time of the year by scaring yourself silly with tales that chill your bones...I read this book by the flickering light of a candleflame, got myself working up a sweat with shadows dancing in the corners.
In this first collection of chilling short stories, poems and songs, Alvin Schwartz delivers some well-known folklore through the ages that have never failed to send people screaming into the hills. Some of them are play-stories, it requires the involvement of the narrator and the listeners in the story for more frights.
Some of the stories have been re-written for clarity as many of them consist of same stories with varying storylines. There is even a story of the Wendigo, the mythical forest spirit/creature that whisks unsuspecting victims into the sky before dropping them from above. Another variation says that they eat up the puny humans (HINT: you can find this creature mentioned in Stephen King's Pet Sematary).
Though this book was meant for younger readers in mind, it was thoroughly enjoyable with whimsical and downright eerie illustrations. This book is lovely for the young and young-at-heart for a skipped heartbeat this Halloween. Happy Halloween and don't look back over your left shoulder dear readers...
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