Whether in scenes of the slime oozing from the walls of the house in The Amityville Horror or the blood-filled hotel elevator in The Shining, horror movies and the books that inspire them often make ...
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 ...
A CU Boulder poet considers the socioeconomic and political environment of the turn of the 20th century through the history of her own family Mud, Blood, and Ghosts is not a typical history book. To ...
In anticipation of Halloween, I just picked up a complete collection of the ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ book series (Alvin Schwartz, 1981; 1984; 1991), which I loved as a kid (despite a few of ...
From abandoned mansions to eerie manors still occupied, haunted house stories continue to grip our imagination. But what makes these tales so unforgettable is that many are rooted in actual locations; ...
What ghost stories of the formerly enslaved tell us about their lives. By Jennifer Wilson In 1937, workers with the Federal Writers’ Project (F.W.P.), a New Deal program for unemployed writers, were ...
A collection of spooky short fiction by Edith Wharton and a historical nonfiction narrative about a woman who claimed to be haunted. By Sadie Stein Dear readers, We all have our forms of escapism.
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