We were saying, Which are your favorite?
We distilled it to the five or six that we like the most.
Some of them are told in their entirety, some others are referenced.

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Those that know the books will see more than people that havent read the book….
But we basically distilled it to the ones that everybody seems to remember the most.
The books obviously have many many more stories, so this could go on and on.
But we said, Lets do greatest hits.
Del Toro also recalled the first time he came acrossScary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
I basically was roaming through a bookstore, in San Antonio, Texas, he said.
It really was like having a campfire between those two covers.
The film opens Aug. 9.