The Spooky Scrapbook: A Pop-Up Book, by Kees Moerbeek

The Spooky Scrapbook: A Pop-Up Book, by Kees Moerbeek. 2000 hardcover. 14 pages, very nice condition.

It's always nice to keep a scrapbook of important events in your life... even if you've already died twice. In this sinister scrapbook, the protagonist wants to preserve this year's happy birthday memories, which he celebrates with all his relatives (dead or alive): Nephew Frankie, Uncle Hunch, Granddaddy Bones, the Witch aunts, even Uncle Drac, in from Transylvania. The decidedly pointy-fanged birthday boy sends out invitations, opens presents ("real poltergeist slime from Cousin Spook!"), and delights in a ghastly gourmet meal of soup with eyes and worm spaghetti. It’s a pop-up book filled with gruesome horrors and spine-chilling creepy-crawlies, all presented in a downright cheerful tone by the vampire boy. Lift the flaps, pull the tabs, open the drawers and coffins, and unfold the fantastic paper art created by the talented Kees Moerbeek. The scrapbook is more of a box in a false-book format, allowing for plenty of expanding surprises.