question:  Tales for the Midnight Hour served as the precursor to other similar works including a series of three children's books written by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by who?
answer: Stephen Gammell
context: Title: Vampire Plagues series
  Passage: Vampire Plagues is a series of six books written under the pseudonym Sebastian Rook.  The first three books were written by Ben Jeapes, the last three by Helen Hart.  The books focus on the adventures of three children, Jack Harkett, Benedict Cole & Emily Cole, taking place in 1850.  It can also be found as the series Vampire Dusk.
  Title: Tales for the Midnight Hour
  Passage: Tales for the Midnight Hour is a series of scary children's books written by Judith Bauer Stamper.  This anthology horror series served as the precursor to various other similar works, including "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" and "Scary Stories for Sleep-overs".  Published by Scholastic's Point Horror banner, this popular series spawned 3 sequels and lasted from 1977-1991.
  Title: Joseph Greene (writer)
  Passage: Joseph Lawrence Greene (August 1, 1914 – 1990) was an American author of science fiction novels and short stories whose most familiar creations are "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet" which, in 1951, became a television series popular with young audiences, as well as "Dig Allen Space Explorer", a series of six books published between 1959 and 1962, which focused around the adolescent hero Dig Allen and his interplanetary adventures in the genre of boys' juvenile literature.  A prolific writer, he also contributed numerous stories to comic books and was an editor, until 1972, for Grosset publishing while writing under a number of pseudonyms including, purportedly, the house pen name "Alvin Schwartz" and also "Richard Mark", and using sundry variations of his own name ("Joseph Lawrence", "Joe Green", "Joseph Verdy", "Larry Verdi", "Lawrence Vert"), which exemplified such foreign-language wordplays for "Green" as "Verdy", "Verdi" and "Vert".
  Title: Alvin Schwartz (children's author)
  Passage: Alvin Schwartz (April 25, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York – March 14, 1992 in Princeton, New Jersey) was the author of more than fifty books dedicated to and dealing with topics such as folklore and word play, many of which were intended for young readers.
  Title: James Patterson bibliography
  Passage: This James Patterson Bibliography contains the list of books written and published by James Patterson.  The list below separates the books into two main categories: books written for adults and books written for children and teens.  Within those two categories, the books are further divided into three subcategories: fiction series, standalone fiction, or standalone nonfiction.
  Title: So Long at the Fair
  Passage: So Long at the Fair (US re-release title The Black Curse) is a 1950 British thriller film directed by Terence Fisher and Anthony Darnborough, and starring Jean Simmons and Dirk Bogarde.  It was adapted from the 1947 novel of the same name by Anthony Thorne.  The general story is a version of what appears to be a 19th-century urban legend, which has inspired several fictional works.  "Maybe You Will Remember" told in Alvin Schwartz's "Scary Stories 3" and the episode "Into Thin Air" of the TV show "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" were based on the same tale.  The German film "Verwehte Spuren" ("Covered Tracks") was also based on the story, and produced in 1938, with a script by Thea von Harbou.
  Title: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
  Passage: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a series of three children's books written by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by Stephen Gammell.  The titles of the books are "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" (1981), "More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" (1984), and "Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones" (1991).
  Title: John and Mary
  Passage: John and Mary are the subjects of a series of children's books written by Grace James.  The series started in the 1930s and finishes in the 1960s.  They form part of the 'realistic adventure' tradition in children's literature, following on from similar works by E. Nesbit and Arthur Ransome.
  Title: The Memphis Album
  Passage: The Memphis Album is a cover album of Memphis soul songs by Australian singer Guy Sebastian released in Australia by Sony Music on 10 November 2007.  The album was recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis with Steve Cropper, Donald 'Duck' Dunn, Steve Potts (a.k.a. The M.G.'s), and Lester Snell.  The M.G.'s were the Stax studio band who played on many of the original versions of the songs Sebastian recorded on the album.  Steve Cropper was also a co-writer of three of the tracks, "In the Midnight Hour", "Knock on Wood" and "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay".  One original song written by Sebastian was included on the album.  "The Memphis Album" debuted at No. 3 on the ARIA Albums Chart, spending eight weeks in the Top 10.  It reached double platinum accreditation, and received a nomination for "Highest Selling Album" at the 2008 ARIA Music Awards.
  Title: In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories
  Passage: In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories is a collection of horror stories retold for children by Alvin Schwartz and illustrator Dirk Zimmer.  It was published as part of the I Can Read!  series in 1984.
citations: Tales for the Midnight Hour Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark