Five stories (7 if you count the intro and the epilogue, which, why not) that evoke the terrifying folktales we read as kids in the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series. (Or, if you were like me, Whistle in the Graveyard, which for my third-grade money was a far superior collection.) But these aren't folktales--these are new stories out of the mind of Emily Carroll. I can't put the right adjective to her--these stories aren't demented, or depraved, or twisted or anything like that. They hit the absolute perfect target in the brain to scare and disturb without being overly fantastic; there's something wonderfully discomforting and disorienting about these stories, told through both scratchy text and gorgeous artwork.