When you are away from the city, camping in the woods with your family and friends, it is fun to have a good collection of short and scary ghost stories for kids. You can sing songs together ...

Let’s remember that Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is a ghost story. Telling dark and scary tales for the holidays is a tradition that dates back to pagan times.

Taylor Hunsberger, a children’s librarian at the East Flatbush branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, reflects on the ways ...

Creepy, spooky, and scary stories for kids are many children's favorite kinds of books to read. ... (Adults probably think of Stephen King — and I agree, his writing is terrifying.) ...

There are several possible reasons why people tell ghost stories. One explanation is that our fear of the unknown makes these tales appealing. We don’t understand much about death and the ...

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 ...

Here are some scary stories from around the world you probably haven't heard An effigy is seen near a railway track where two commuter trains collided in 1987, killing 139 people, in Bintaro ...

Ghost Story opens with John Houseman’s Sears James, Esq., telling a terrifying tale as if he were sitting around a campfire in John Carpenter’s The Fog (1980), which opened with the same ...

Christmastime ghost stories never really caught on in the United States, according to Noble, despite singer Andy Williams promising, “There’ll be scary ghost stories, and tales of the glories ...

D.C. Ghosts: This scary ghost tour takes you all over downtown D.C. and brings you to the most haunted spots. Your guide tells stories about assassins, criminals, and operatives who wandered the ...

Stories of spiritual entities, paranormal activity and creepy cryptids are passed through generations the world over, becoming local legends that only sometimes reach across borders and cultures.

Visitors dressed in a ghost costumes at Goosebump market as a part of Halloween festival in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) ...