People here might not know it, but I love Tim Burton. His movies are absolutely fantastic and thus I really wanted this book, but I couldn't find it anywhere. Until I went to Amsterdam and found it in great condition in a second-hand bookstore.

I started reading immediately, only to be stopped by my boyfriend since he knows if I start reading I lose track of time and everything around me. :)

So I waited until we had to travel back home. And Oh My Gosh this book is so wonderful, perfectly in style with Tim Burton. It is creepy, gross at times, but also absolutely wow! It is not only text, it also has drawings to complement the prose/stories.

I would surely recommend it to all who love Tim Burton. I am not sure if it will appeal to everyone else, he has a really distinct style and I know from experience that it is not something that everyone will like. It is at least not for the faint-hearted. So be warned, it is a good book, but be sure you can handle it. :)

“Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware
he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.”

this is so weird and cute. i love the characters and the funny poems

Tim Burton is amazing.
(I know it's a cliche, but still I have to say this)

I already saw all of the Stain Boy and other characters Flash animation files sometimes ago in some website I long forgotten.
But this book is a hundred times better.

What I really love from Tim Burton is the way his characters can give me a really bad disturbing nightmare, but in the same time I can't help not falling in love with them.
I really do.

It's tragic, but it is sweet.
It's tragic, but it is damn hilarious.
It's tragic, but it is heart warming.

Juxtaposed, I know.
Yet that is the Tim Burton I adore.

(sue me!)

i have no recollection of ever buying or being given this book but it found its way onto my bookshelves anyway…

I don’t think I’ve ever been so enamored by Tim Burton as much as I have by reading The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories. I’ve always been a fan of weird and creepy, and I think Burton did an outstanding job with these stories. They were weird, creepy, melancholy (ha, see what I did there?), and really, REALLY strange. Some stories were one sentence long, but that’s all it needed. Burton has a knack for creating strange and creepy stories and it’s wonderful!