Kirkus Reviews compared Reynold's writing to Rod Serling's monologues due to "its perfectly paced foreboding and unsettling tension, both gentled by lightly ominous humor." They also praised Brown's illustration, who used a grayscale tone except for the crayon, calling this choice a callback to the old sci-fi thrillers, as well as an introduction to the horror genre for new readers. The third book in the "Creepy Tales!" series, it was published by Simon & Schuster on Augand tells the story of Jasper, a young rabbit who finds and uses a possessed crayon in order to get good grades at school.Ĭreepy Crayon! was received positively by critics and was a topseller children's fiction book in the United States. Creepy Crayon! is a horror children's book written by Aaron Reynolds and illustrated by Peter Brown.
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