Your eyes are red and white candy spirals, your brain is mince pie, and Elf on the Shelf, having glared at you for weeks, has returned to his desk job with the surveillance state. We know horror at ...

In honor of Halloween and all things spooky, we've collected a list of the best scary ghost stories that are even more chilling because they're 100-percent real. At least according to the people who ...

Each year as Halloween approaches, I grow nostalgic for the spooky anthologies that first introduced me to “scary stories.” I recall, with particular fondness, “Haunted Houseful,” “Ghostly Gallery” ...

Spooky stories are just as much a part of the Halloween season as witches, jack-o’-lanterns and skeletons. There are scary stories for people of all fright levels—from the safety of a “Goosebumps” ...

If you fancy making your weekend a gruesome one, look no further than a ‘grotesque’ horror movie from 2019 that’s been added to BBC iPlayer. Directed by Andre Ovredal and co-written by Guillermo Del ...

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Seeing the cover of Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1981) has a powerfully Proustian effect on me: my stomach drops a little bit and a shiver of twinned fear and delight runs down ...

Angus Fletcher, Professor of English at The Ohio State University explains the science of scary stories and why we love them. Have you ever wondered how our favorite scary stories get the timing just ...

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