Septem Angela Maycock Banned Books Week, Censorship Leading up to Banned Books Week 2012, ALA will highlight one book from its new timeline of banned and challenged books each day. Today we feature "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark," by Alvin Schwartz, challenged in 1990.

Thehistory of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is also one mired in countless attempts of censorship and faux hysteria over its supposedly inappropriate content. According to the American Library Association, the series was the single most banned and/or challenged book in the United States.

Oneof the most banned books in history, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is still being checked out in libraries by kids (and adults!) today. On the show, we talk about why this book, despite its gruesome tales, is so important for childhood development. We sat down with bestselling, award-winning

The Dead Man's Brains," Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Some of the series' weakest points come when the stories fit a gimmick rather than a narrative. Here, we're told this is a game, in

ScaryStories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz Scary Stories, a three-volume series, has the dubious distinction of being the most banned book of the 1990s, according to the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom. Schwartz wrote the stories for children, but he and illustrator Stephen Gammell pulled no punches in depicting horror

EXCLUSIVE Guillermo del Toro will develop to potentially direct Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark for CBS Films. The film is based on the wildly successful trilogy of books by Alvin Schwartz

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