More Tales to Chill Your Bones (Scary Stories #3)
Published 1991 by Scholastic, Inc., Paperback 128 pages
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
User Reviews
Rating: really liked it
Another great collection of spooky tales, Scary Stories 3 is just as good as the original. This one contains most of my favorite stories that I remember from reading it so long ago.
This is a very beloved book from my childhood, along with it's two prequels. I'm still not entirely sure why I love something so much that gave me several serious complexes that continue into adulthood, but I guess I'm just twisted like that.
I chose to reread these books due to the Scary Stories movie that came out recently. Needless to say the stories didn't scare me like they did when I was a kid, but I still found that I was a little creeped out going to the bathroom in the dark, so to me that's a win for any book or movie, because fiction doesn't scare me easily.
It's filled with mostly creepy short stories, with a chapter dedicated to spooky yet humorous stories to make you laugh instead. This edition has newer pictures, but the original illustrator's drawings are intensely creepy, and unmistakably recognizable. It's perfect for kids 10 - 12, teens 13 - 15, or people 16+ that scare really easily and can't handle hardcore horror.
Rating: really liked it
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This is a book full of chilling stories and urban legends which are sure to get you trembling. The illustrations are incredibly creepy!
Footsteps, Such Things Happen, The Wolf Girl, and
The Trouble are a few of our favorites. It also contains one of our favorite scary poems titled
You May Be The Next… which also includes the short tune with notes to sing or play.
You May Be The Next…Did you ever think as a hearse goes by
That you may be the next to die?
They wrap you up in a big white sheet
From your head down to your feet.
And the worms crawl in and the worms crawl out,
In your stomach and out your snout,
And your eyes fall out and your teeth decay–
And that is the end of a perfect day.These are best read out loud in a group setting, in my opinion, but can be read alone as well. The stories in this book are still creepy to me, even as an adult! Great to have on the Halloween shelf.
5*****
Rating: really liked it
This third volume of the series felt much more "grown up" and interesting compared to the other two. The stories were a lot of fun, and I loved the urban legends especially. I also appreciated the research notes, as they give background information about the work of the author. Now I want to see the movie! Has anyone seen it and can recommend?
Rating: really liked it
At first, I had felt quite disinclined to read this one, having read
book #1 &
book #2 . I didn't hate those books, but I also didn't love them much either. They had just been two quick, refreshing reads for me and I wasn't interested in this series anymore. But then I thought
(my OCD thought), just a tiny li'l book is what I'm leaving out in this series and if it doesn't get any better, it can't possibly be a waste of time. Hence, I started reading this book and guess what. IT DOES GET BETTER!!! The assortment of stories for this piece is much better than its predecessors; even the artwork by Stephen Gammell is way spookier and vivid. This is the best book in the Scary Stories series, I believe. Anyone who didn't like the first two books should seriously try this one.
Stories I liked most: • Maybe you will remember
• The trouble
• The hog
(bcoz it made me really sad actually)• Is something wrong
• THUPPPPPPP
Rating: really liked it
This series of children's horror stories was a favorite of my oldest son. He presented me with copies of the books as he was leaving to serve in the Navy. Nostalgia from his childhood. What he remembered the most was the creepy-cool artwork by Stephen Gammell. Imagine my horror when I found out (while I was re-reading the series) that when they reprinted the books as a 30th anniversary celebration, they changed the artwork. While Brett Helquist is a talented artist, what made this book series really great was the strange art by Gammell. Luckily, I have older copies of this series with the weird art intact. I investigated online and found examples of Helquists illustrations. They are great...more of a literal interpretation of the stories....but....it just isn't Scary Stories without Stephen Gammell. Not sure what the publisher was thinking!
Scary Stories 3 gathers 25 more stories from folklore. There are notes about the stories and a list of sources in the back. As in the prior books, the stories vary, even including a bit of poetry and a song. The artwork perfectly accompanies the creepy tales. All the tales are middle-grade friendly.
An excellent collection of scary stories! I will pass on the 30th Anniversary edition. This series stands out because of the original artwork by Gammell. My son remembers these books 17 years after we first read them because of Gammell's artwork. It isn't the same outstanding series without the original art. I'm glad I have the full collection with the original drawings. These definitely have a permanent home on my keeper shelf!
Rating: really liked it
3.5/5
Better than the second, but nowhere near as good as the first!
Rating: really liked it
I think this collection might just be better than the first one, if only by a smidge. I think it’s even my favourite out of all three. As soon as I started I was instantly transported and absorbed and I just felt like a kid again. That is such an amazing feeling to have and I’m so glad I decided to revisit these little spooky stories so I could recapture it. They’re definitely a little silly and not scary at all now that I’m older, but that’s part of the fun, remembering how scared it used to make you and laughing about it. That’s what this series represents for me and I just love it so much!
Rating: really liked it
All the nostalgia. I also enjoyed reading the back sections explaining what each story was based on. The illustrations are the best!
Rating: really liked it
The "Scary Stories" trio was one of the more infamous books at my elementary school's library - everyone wanted to read them, and for good reason - they're fun, spooky, and the illustrations are both beautiful and downright terrifying! The stories are a collection of folktales, ghost stories, and campfire stories, meant to be read aloud with a group of friends. However, they're perfectly scary even if you're just reading them to yourself on a rainy afternoon. The stories within these three books range from silly and cheesy to unsettling and scary, especially for a book aimed at younger readers! But I highly recommend all three books for younger and older readers alike. I would also like to note that the "new" edition of these books with different illustrations should be skipped... they have none of the flavor and atmosphere of the originals, so get a copy of the original drawings, you won't regret it!
Rating: really liked it
4.5 stars YES! YES! YES!Finally, I got the chance to read the final set of stories from Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell’s controversial yet popular series, “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” called “Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones!” In celebration of Halloween, I have decided to revisit this little gem of a series again and I was seriously not disappointed!
This book mostly has a set of scary stories that will haunt you in your sleep, so here are a couple of stories out of this collection:
Harold [image error]The story starts off with two guys named Thomas and Alfred who decided to make a man sized doll that looked exactly like the farmer they hated named Harold and they decided to put the doll outside the pasture to scare off the birds. Occasionally, Thomas and Alfred would make fun of the Harold doll and sometimes violently hit the doll for no reason at all. One night however, Thomas and Alfred start to notice strange things about the Harold doll as the doll began to make grunting noises and started moving around by itself. This starts to creep out both Alfred and Thomas and they decided to leave the pasture to get away from Harold. But when Thomas decided to go back to the pasture to get the milking stools…
The Red Spot 
One night when Ruth was sleeping, she noticed a spider crawling on her face and afterwards, she discovered that she had a big red spot on her left cheek. She showed the red spot to her mother and her mother kept telling her that the red spot will go away soon enough. But later on, the red spot got bigger and bigger and soon it began to burst and….
Is Something Wrong? 
The story started off with a man spending the night at an empty house due to his car breaking down. As soon as the man tried to go to sleep, he heard a loud crash and something large and heavy fell through the chimney and went after the man. The man then started running away from the strange creature, but when he came to the road, the creature tapped him on the shoulder and…
Just like the previous two books in the “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” series, Alvin Schwartz has done an excellent job at narrating these spooky tales that range from being deeply disturbing (“Harold” and “Just Delicious”) to being slightly scary but having a somewhat humorous twist towards the end (“Is Something Wrong)? I like the fact that Alvin Schwartz is able to juggle between horror and humor in this collection as it made the stories interesting to read through (even though I have always preferred the more straight-forward horror themed stories since I love reading genuinely terrifying tales, especially in October)! But, probably the best part about this book was the illustrations done by none other than Stephen Gammell! Now, while I understand that Stephen Gammell’s artwork was highly controversial when this series first came out, I honestly love how horrifying these illustrations are as they make the horror aspects in each of the stories even more effective to read through and I was seriously creeped out by some of the illustrations! Some of my favorite images in this book were from “Is Something Wrong?” “The Dead Hand,” “Sam’s New Pet,” and “The Red Spot!”
The reason why I took off half a star from the rating was because the pacing in some of the stories were a bit too slow, especially in the story “The Trouble,” where I wished that the story would have gotten to the main point much quicker. Also, the reason why this book series was so controversial was due to Stephen Gammell’s frightening artwork. There are some genuinely horrifying artworks in this book, most notably in stories like “Sam’s New Pet,” “The Dead Hand” and “Is Something Wrong?” and some of the artwork would feature grotesque and creepy characters and characters that are covered in blood. Parents might want to read this book first before showing it to their children to see if their children can handle the scary content of this book series.
Overall, “Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones” is a truly great finale to Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell’s legendary “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” series and even though this series has come to an end, I will probably still re read this series down the line once more! I would recommend this book to children ages six and up since the frightening imagery and scary stories might terrify younger children.
Review is also on: Rabbit Ears Book Blog
Rating: really liked it
Duh, assholes.
Did you know there's a section in the back that tells the origins of all the stories? I didn't. Because that's about the last thing I wanted to read as a kid. Oh, a bunch of text with almost no pictures, and it references other books and shit? NO THANKS.
But as an adult, I have a modicum of patience. I don't know how to measure modicums, how many modicums you get to a gallon or whatever, but enough patience to read a few pages and learn some fascinating shit.
Rating: really liked it
A great ending to the series that is better than the second installment equipped with top notch illustrations and interesting tales.
Rating: really liked it
Stephen Gammell's artwork just gets crazier and more terrifying in this, the third installment of Alvin Schawartz's brilliant series "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark", which is ostensibly for children but it's pretty damn scary for most adults, so be forewarned...
The greatest part of all three books in the series, besides the stories and artwork, is Schwartz's lengthy notes, in which he describes the sources of the stories. He's done a lot of research into American and European folklore to find the real stories behind these stories. In many cases, the real stories are creepier than the ones we know.
Highly recommended for anyone who loves horror and/or just a good scare.
Rating: really liked it
I think that aside from the entertaining narration by Schwartz, what made these tales deeply effective and memorable are Gammell's illustrations. I remember how I would scare myself silly when I zoom in on some particularly egregious feature, like sharp teeth that can chomp you bit by bit or moldy, skeletal arms that will grab you and drag you to who knows where. Looking at these drawings now, they have a spare and almost atavistic beauty that's fascinating and disturbing at the same time.
Each book also has an interesting Notes section that details the lore and legends from whence its tales were derived, along with separate Sources and Bibliography. For a children's book, these sections are surprisingly very informative, and scholarly without being dry. They're useful when you want to find out more about a story, though many of the books in the biblio date back to the mid-20th century.
The last book of this fearsome trifecta is also the best. The following tales are especially noteworthy:
Harold, where an abused scarecrow comes to life to take revenge;
Such Things Happen, which shows how one can counter a witch's hex; and
Maybe You Will Remember, about a sinister Parisian conspiracy.
I had a really good time with this nostalgic revisit, and I reckon I'll be reading them again. I'm rating it 8/10 or 4 stars out of 5.
Rating: really liked it
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