"It is a genial, festive season, and we love to muse upon graves, and dead bodies, and murders, and blood." ...

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 ...

People who know Naledi are perpetually aware of two things: he is a talented visual artist, and he has seen copious amounts of anime. The Ghost Stories English dub is famous for its dark humor and ...

It wouldn't be spooky season without ghosts. The otherworldly white apparitions are a standby of Halloween celebrations. But they weren't always the stereotypical evil spirits we see in books and ...

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.

Almost two centuries ago, Irish immigrants brought a festival called Samhain to North America. Samhain had ancient pagan roots. It was celebrated as a harvest festival at the end of October, but also ...

PORTLAND, Ore (KOIN) – A faint crisp chill has begun to fill the air, candy corn is lining the shelves at local grocery stores and people have begun to put up 12-foot skeletons in their front yard ...

Visitors learn Deerfield's haunted history on the first night of the "Deerfield After Dark Ghost Walks" Credit: CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY LEANNE RICCHIUTI Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and ...

Do you believe in spirits? Over the past few years, ghost tours have surged in popularity in the Berkshires. Two decades ago, historical spots like Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum, Hancock ...

When it comes to spooky locations, nothing quite sets the scene like an ancient, dark castle. So you can imagine the spine–tingling moment staff at the medieval Chester Castle discovered they had an ...

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 ...