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Publisher Price/Stern/Sloan (or PSS! now an imprint of Penguin Group) had an answer to the ever popular Scary Stories that Jr. Readers everywhere were obsessed with.
As new books of Alvin Schwartz's series stopped coming out after 1991, there was an opening on shelves at book fairs in local schools everywhere for a new line of books "Scary Stories for Sleepovers".
I remember purchasing the first book back when I was kid and found the stories perhaps a tad less disturbing than Alvin Schwart'z Scary Stories but still pretty compelling... I still remember that story about a giant Venus flytrap.
The entries to the series can be described here: Scary Stories for Sleep-overs - Wikipedia
1991-1999: 10 Books (each an anthology) plus 1 Almanac
1996-1997: 3 Jr. Novels written by different author
1996-1997: 4 Books (each an anthology) under spinoff "Scary Mysteries for Sleepovers"
I remember purchasing the initial book at a bookfair when I was a kid:
I think I read the 4th entry as well as a kid and wonder if any of you think this series is best left forgotten or perhaps adapted at some point similar to how Scary Stories was as Hollywood is always looking for additional material of course.
As new books of Alvin Schwartz's series stopped coming out after 1991, there was an opening on shelves at book fairs in local schools everywhere for a new line of books "Scary Stories for Sleepovers".
I remember purchasing the first book back when I was kid and found the stories perhaps a tad less disturbing than Alvin Schwart'z Scary Stories but still pretty compelling... I still remember that story about a giant Venus flytrap.
The entries to the series can be described here: Scary Stories for Sleep-overs - Wikipedia
1991-1999: 10 Books (each an anthology) plus 1 Almanac
1996-1997: 3 Jr. Novels written by different author
1996-1997: 4 Books (each an anthology) under spinoff "Scary Mysteries for Sleepovers"
I remember purchasing the initial book at a bookfair when I was a kid:
I think I read the 4th entry as well as a kid and wonder if any of you think this series is best left forgotten or perhaps adapted at some point similar to how Scary Stories was as Hollywood is always looking for additional material of course.
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