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I think whether or not you found any of the stories scary or gory (ignoring the art work) entirely depends on how imaginative you were independently. There’s very little in the way of explicit detailed descriptions, but I think it can get a lot spookier if you were the kind of kid that would fill in the blanks. Like the bride story is just “oh and she got locked in a trunk and they found her body in there years later” and it isn’t scary if you don’t think about it. But if you were a kid who laid awake all night after reading it imagining being trapped in a box that feels like it has no air and screaming and kicking and clawing til your fingernails snap off as you slowly get thirstier and thirstier, then you’ll be more likely to remember the story being scary. The stories mostly were not scary on their own, but they were a lot of kids’ first introduction to horror concepts to think about.
