In honor of Halloween and all things spooky, we've gathered a collection of very real and very scary ghost stories ... sit under the tree with me and tell me stories." The stories were often ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Andre Ovredal's "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" has brought the short stories from Alvin Schwartz's nightmarish children's books to life.

Narrator: For "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark," del Toro picked Spectral ... But what I recall is the first edict was they have to be as true to the source material as possible.

turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time-stories that have a way of becoming all too real for a group of teenagers who discover Sarah's ...

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