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For the “30th Anniversary” edition of the Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark books, publisher Harper Collins got rid of all the awesome, creepy-as-shit original artwork by Stephen Gammell, and replaced it with lame, “family-friendly” stuff. THIS BULLSHIT MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO STAND.
The whole point of these books is that a kid can look at the pictures and get the crap scared out of them (even before any of the stories are read), but that it doesn’t actually harm them. Kids need to do things that scare them, sometimes. It’s good for them to get used to fear in a safe way (looking at unsettling pictures in a book of scary stories, for example), because the world is a big, scary place that they should be prepared for. If you shelter your kids from every little thing that could potentially upset you them, they’ll be jumping at shadows their whole lives.
