Jim Flora's fantastically illustrated books captivated kids throughout the 1960s and 70s. these ghoulish and amusing stories and wildly inventive illustrations will keep readers shivering. perhaps better known for his brilliant and madcap illustrations that graced the covers of hundreds of jazz and classical record albums in the 1940s and 50s, Jim Flora also wrote and illustrated seventeen popular books for children. In this book, Grandpa comforts his grandson during a fierce thunderstorm by telling him stories about far scarier things, including a hungry werewolf and an evil witch who turns boys into spiders.