Guillermo del Torostill remembers where he was when he first discoveredScary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
They had the simplicity of campfire stories, he says.
They had that flavor of folklore and oral narrative, with a great sense of setup and punchline.

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Gammell draws these very ephemeral images, and we tried to translate them into 3D, del Toro says.
We did several of the characters in the book.
In each instance we would say, Does it look and feel like the character on the page?

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