NEVER BE SCARED OF THE DARK!
Horror doesn’t typically cater to kids. Spooks, slashers and the supernatural can lead to nightmares or, worse, expensive therapy bills. Thankfully, author Alvin Schwartz and illustrator Stephen Gammell ignored that memo.
In 1981, the duo conceived Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, the first in a trilogy of children’s books designed to give young readers the heebie-jeebies. This summer, producer Guillermo del Toro and screenwriters Dan and Kevin Hageman will bring those chilling tales to life in a big-screen adaptation of the same name. However, director André Øvredal admits that he was totally unaware of the genre-defining books before the project fell into his lap.
“I was working with a couple of the producers on a movie, Jason Brown and Sean Daniel, on another venture that didn’t materialise in the end,” Øvredal tells . “At a certain point,
