“Every American person between 25 and 40 knows those illustrations and those books,” she said. Asked why, Machado pointed to Gammell’s most famous work: the images he provided for Alvin Schwartz’s 1981 kids’ classic, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and the two sequels that followed. When Carmen Maria Machado was preparing to publish her first book, Her Body and Other Parties -a story collection that would go on to be nominated for a National Book Award in 2017-she urged her publisher to hire the reclusive illustrator Stephen Gammell to provide art for the cover. Who Is Matt Rife, the “ProbleMATTic” Comedian Who Just Sent Ticketmaster Into a Meltdown? What Americans Are Missing About Hannah Gadsby’s “Comedy”ĥ0 Years Ago, the Woman Who Would Usher in the True-Crime Boom Befriended Her Co-Worker.
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