Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about 80s creepypasta so you don't have to.

I'm Renata.

And I'm Kate.

And for this episode, we read Scary Stories to Tell

in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz with illustrations by Stephen Gamal. Joining us to discuss the illustrations

that haunted your childhood is Becca, who pays 25% attention to all of Kate's spooky shit,

and therefore knows three times as much as the

average person. I'm basically an expert. That was like algebra. Welcome to worst bestsellers

where we trick you into doing SAT math. So this is, we're continuing our flashback summer where we, in some cases, revisit books from our childhoods.

I'll say straight up, I never read these books when I was a kid because they had scary right in the name and I knew that was not for me.

You're the only person in the world.

I think that's probably true.

Yeah.

I have my original copies from when I was a kid that are, have seen better days.

And then I also, when I was older, bought the collection all in one book.

I think when I was in college, just for ease of not destroying the copies of these books that I still would reference constantly, even as an adult.

I like these.

I got this from the library.

I specifically got the older edition with the original illustrations because I know

people really like those. I don't know why. They're gross. That is something that is still

so interesting to me. I'm so interested in the thought process behind changing those

illustrations out. It's because these are gross, Kate.

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