Kati's Bookaholic Rambling Reviews: Review: More Tales to Chill Your Bones (Scary Stories, #3) by Alvin Schwartz (Author) & Stephen Gammell (Illustrator)

Title: More Tales to Chill Your Bones

Series: Scary Stories, #3

Author: Alvin Schwartz (Author) & Stephen Gammell (Illustrator)

Genre: Young Adult, Horror, Fiction, Short Stories

Publication Date: 1991 by Scholastic, Inc.

Format: Hardback

Source: Library

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Storytellers know — just as they have for hundreds and hundreds of years — that everyone enjoys a good, scary story!

Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories 3 joins his other popular collections of scary folklore, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark and More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, to give readers spooky, funny and fantastic tales guaranteed to raise goose bumps.

Who is the Wolf girl? Why is a hearse filled with men with yellow glowing eyes? Can a nightmare become reality? How do you avoid an appointment with Death?

Stephen Gammell's splendidly creepy drawings perfectly capture the mood of more than two dozens scary stories — and even a scary song — all just right for reading along or for telling aloud in the dark..

Author Biography: Alvin Schwartz is known for a body of work of more than two dozen books of folklore for young readers that explore everything from wordplay and humor to tales and legends of all kinds. His collections of scary stories — Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, Scary Stories 3, and two I Can Read Books, In A Dark, Dark Room and Ghosts! — are just one part of his matchless folklore collection.

Boo men
When death arrives. The appointment
The bus stop
Faster and faster
Just delicious
hello, Kate!
The black dog
Footsteps
Like cats' eyes ; On the edge. Bess
Harold
The dead hand
Such things happen ; Running wild. The wold girl ; Five nightmares. The dream
Sam's new pet
Maybe you will remember
The red spot
No, thanks ; What is going on here? The trouble ; Whoooooooo? Strangers
The hog
Is something wrong
It's him
T-H-U-P-P-P-P-P-P-P!
You may be the next

Ahh, the last and final book of the Scary Stories Trilogy and what an amazingly dark and creepier book this one was. More Tales to Chill Your Bones was a bit darker and spookier than the first two books and I really loved and enjoyed reading this book so much. I remember reading some of the stories when I was a kid and it was a great nostalgic feeling reading stories that I have read when I was a kid.

The stories I remember reading in this book when I was a kid were The Wolf Girl, The Bus Stop and The Red Spot which the red spot gave me the total creeps because it deals with spiders and I so don't like spiders at all. I mean every year at the beginning of September and October I always get a lot of spiders crawling in my apartment and I always scream when I see one. I don't only get the small spiders but I also get the big black spiders as well in my apartment. But the story The Red Spot scare me too because it deals with spiders and spider bites which I actually had a couple of spider bites on me that were small red spots on my skin while I was reading this book.

And when I was reading The Red Spot it spooked and creeped me out so much that it sent shivers down my spine. That I couldn't help but keep on thinking about my spider bites that I actually went out and bought medicine for my spider bites and took care of the spider bites the next day because I didn't want what happened to the character in The Red Spot story happen to me and I tell you I know these stories are fictions, folklore, and myths.

But when a story gets to you and scares you as The Red Spot story did to me you know the author did an amazing job creepy you out and just plain scare you after reading each story. All and all I so loved and enjoyed reading the final book of the Scary Stories trilogy that I would like to see if I can find more books by Alvin Schwartz in the library soon.

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Alvin Schwartz (Author)

Alvin Schwartz was the author of more than fifty books dedicated to and dealing with topics such as folklore and word play, many of which were intended for young readers. He is often confused with another Alvin Schwartz, who wrote Superman and Batman daily comics strips and a novel titled The Blowtop.