Only time I was ever scared shitless from fiction as a kid was from that stuff. R rated horror movies did nothing. But those drawings fucked me up one night thinking a demon owl was watching me sleep.
I loved scholastic book fair day in the 5th grade. It always happened during a math class with a really mean teacher so we'd get to skip her that day and it also meant I got to order another one of these
1980 kid here. These books utterly owned my childhood. Until I left for college they were still on my bookshelf, and even now they're somewhere around here in a box. They opened up King, Carpenter and others, and are why I subscribe to like seven horror fiction podcasts.
I wanna credit my first experience with reading this and being repulsed but fascinated enough to just sit with that fear as being why I got into horror as an adult
Fisher Price’s My First “art doesn’t just have to make you feel good, it can make you feel bad in an interesting way”
one of my students wanted “a scary book” so i showed him a couple of light-scary titles to judge his reactions, then when he was dissatisfied, i hit him with the Stephen Gammell art and his eyes lit up
“So, you say you have some new sketches you’re working on for this children’s book you’d like to show me? Now again, these will be- and I really cannot stress this enough- for children, correct?”
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To see those pieces and original Moebius and Wayne Barlowe at the same time?
Unbeatable collection. Would visit any time.
Fisher Price’s My First “art doesn’t just have to make you feel good, it can make you feel bad in an interesting way”