Scary Stories

[singmearainbow.livejournal.com]

For Halloween, I decided to make a bunch of icons of the illustrations from Alvin Schwartz's "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" series. So... voila!

teasers:


Icons
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.

Bases
1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18.



Please comment. Credit is appreciated for the icons with text/transparency, but not required for bases. Also, if you want me to customize any for you I can do that.

Comments

[clever-hobbit.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I read those in fifth grade and was sooo paranoid! Not the best stories for a ten-year-old with an overactive imagination. :)

[neytaritook.livejournal.com]

The only books that have actually given my nightmares (and I read a lot of "scary" books). It's the pictures, I think...

[eruanne-grace.livejournal.com]

Man, that book used to freak me out. Especially this story...it might have been called "The Werewolf." It was about this wolf and it had no footprints and it ripped a guy's throat out. There was this awful picture of the wolf. I hated even looking at it!

[sgrimm.livejournal.com]

I'm not gonna lie- #18 scared me so badly as a kid that I had to tape those pages together. Now I think they're great, if not horribly creepy. :D

[abigail-nicole.livejournal.com]

Sex,I remember how those used to scare me as a child. Harold (#17) scared me shitless, but the pet dog (#13) made me afraid of animals.

Those things are way too scary for children. But the pictures are just gruesome. Good icons, by the way, now that I've ranted ;)

And yes, I use 'sex' as an expletive.

[kitzune.livejournal.com]

You rock. Much like the rest of the people posting comments, the pictures freaked the hell out of me when I was younger, but they were still very awesome. I just wish I could draw like that.

I took number 10.

I wish I knew what I did with that book!

[clarafury.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I grabbed no. 11 and inverted it.

[neytaritook.livejournal.com]

I love those books. They are seriously scary. Taking many, will credit. kudos for using "This Is Halloween" lyrics ;-)

[singmearainbow.livejournal.com]

Glad someone noticed. I meant to mention in my post where the words came from but I forgot. Nice icon!

[iconista.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just wow. I'm too old to have read them as a kid (maybe a good thing!), but they are seriously, wondrously frightening. Is Alvin Schwartz the illustrator as well as the author?

Please consider posting these over at aesthetic_icons as well. There's a Halloween icon contest (http://www.livejournal.com/community/aesthetic_icons/87354.html) going on right now that some of these might be eligible for. (I'm not sure if they're disqualified by being posted here first.)

[singmearainbow.livejournal.com]

Stephen Gammell is the illustrator.

And I'll check out that contest. Thanks.

[wanderingrogue.livejournal.com]

Saaaaweet! Those books were responsible for every nightmare I had as a child. The decomposing ghost in (I think it's called) "The Haunted House" who's image takes up the entire page scared the shit out of me as a kid. Couldn't even read the story because I'd have to look at the picture.

Took 12 for customization. :)

[singmearainbow.livejournal.com]

I know what picture you're talking about! I avoided that page for years. And then I was in Borders one day, and they had a book that contained all three volumes from the series, and guess who they decided to put on the cover? Decomposing zombie skull lady. A whole shelf of them, right in front of me. Freaked me right out.

I would have made an icon of that picture but I couldn't find it anywhere. I have heard from lots of people who were terrified of it.

[wanderingrogue.livejournal.com]

*whimper* Mommy...

Sadly, now I want to go and find that book on amazon, even knowing full well that if I were to wake up in the middle of the night and see the cover that I would probably pee my pants.

It's probably a good thing that you couldn't find a picture to turn into an icon of that lady. You'd probably have a few people weeping uncontrollably. *shiver*

[dumspirospero.livejournal.com]

I took almost all of them except for the Harold one...
those books gave me the shits when I was little, and Harold still scares me. The books still aren't allowed near the 'good' books on my bookshelves.