When I was a kids, my grandparents bought me a Western pop up book. Full of pull-tab gun fights and pop up ghost towns, the mechanics of it fascinated me.
This "Classic Tales of Horror" Pop-up book published in 1988 was after my time, but I would have been all over it as a kid.
I posted pictures of before and after pull tabs and opening windows below:
Opening and closing this page causes the fangs to bite.
My favorite page, of course, is The Legend of Sleep Hollow. It would have been nice if they a pull tab to that caused the Headless Horseman to launch a Jack O' Lantern at Ichabod.
That's a fun book. The illustrations are quite good. The Pit and the Pendulum would have given me the willies as a kid. My favorite gory book back in my youth was the All Color Book of Saints. Lots of scary scenes in there of stonings and torture.
ReplyDeletePoe was definitely the master of the macabre. That All Color Book of Saints would have worth the price just for the Joan of Arc page!
DeleteAlmost positive I've seen this book before but can't remember where or when lol
ReplyDeleteThat looks like a super-fun book!
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