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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The best spooky tales to read this season. Hitchcock and Lovecraft endure, but there are many contemporary scary stories worth reading, including works by Mark Valentine and Michael Cisco.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Candyman, Candyman, Candyman. Though based off the 1992 horror film, the lore behind the Candyman is a legend of its own. The film was inspired by Clive Barker’s short story “The Forbidden ...

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 ...

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) ...