Whilst Andre Øvredal’s suburban Amblin-esque adaptation of Alvin Schwartz’ original book series of the same name leans heavily into familiar terror tropes, the ...
Children’s stories have always been dark and scary. Think of Hansel and Gretel, lured to their death by an evil witch, or Cinderella forced into domestic slavery by her stepmother. A quarter of ...
Scary stories are supposed to be, you guessed it, scary. Watch what happens to these ducks for example. Hey, not so fast ducks. When you write a scary story you need to frighten the reader.
Like Goosebumps but chillier, Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark anthologies served up horror to American pre-teens during the ’80s, their urban legend and folklore-inspired short ...