Guillermo del Toro is eager to traumatize a new generation of children by bringing Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series to the big screen. Schwartz’s short story collections (published from 1981-91) are full of creepy yarns accompanied by even freakier black and white illustrations from Stephen Gammell. The books were the stuff of nightmares for children of the ’90s who grew up reading them, so it’s only natural that the director of Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water would want to turn them into a “movie for kids”.
A Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark movie has been in development for many years, but ...
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