If you were a kid during the eighties, you may have come across a trilogy of books called Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark; a collection of spooky folk tales that stuck with you years after, much like the ending to the Blair Witch. Now, what made these stories stay in the brains of many, especially when alone at night, was the book didn't hold back on the macabre and creep factor. Each tale was either morbid, creepy, or down right frightening. It even had a song which describes what happens to your body as it rots in your grave! I am not joking when I say that these books were like a gateway drug to Stephen King and Clive Barker. Screw Goosebumps, Scary Stories was the real deal. Now, what amped up the frights was the downright scary blotchy ink paintings by artist Stephen Gammell, who before these books, was a commercial artist. It was his artwork that made the books far more special. As a kid I almost couldn't open the book without cr...