Narrator: What makes "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" so, well, scary are the monsters. The disfigured Jangly Man and the bulbous Pale Lady look as if they've been simply lifted from the '80s ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Andre Ovredal's "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" has brought the short stories from Alvin Schwartz's nightmarish children's books to life.

It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time ...