third post

This one's gonna be a bit shorter since I finished the book and I was pretty close to the end last time. I finished "Scary Stories Treasury" and I have to say I was right about the third book being the best one. It was just so creepy, especially in comparison to the first two. Like I said in the last blog, the third book has the most realistic and darkest stories of the three. Reading all three of them compiled into one is like reading a scale of scary stories from child-level campfire stories to adult-level horror. The illustrations, however, are a different story. They are consistently terrifying throughout all the books. What's interesting to me is how the compliment each level of story in a different. When the stories are just simple, one page tales of the supernatural, the illustrations suggest a darker sort of edge to them. Like "Yeah it's a kind of rushed and straightforward story, but now read it with this image in your head." They gave the stories the atmosphere they otherwise lacked. By the third book, the illustrations didn't compliment the stories as much as they did add to them. Instead of compensating for a lack of a certain element, they added to it. I really enjoyed reading this book (or these books?) and I'm hoping to move on to something different now (genre wise).