Regardless, it makes me wonder what other short horror stories out there would be worth adapting for screen. There have been many great horror movies and TV shows alike for which short-form ...

For me, when the scary stuff is explained, the unease goes away. In short stories and films, such exposition is not expected. The narrative structure is less predictable. The auteur only has so ...

and more bizarre tales that fans of viral scary short stories will find frighteningly familiar. A lawyer (played by Andre Holland) defends a strange man (played by Bill Skarsgård) recently freed ...

Ask your Google Home or Amazon Alexa to tell you a scary story. Some short stories are even interactive, allowing you or your kids to participate in the journey and determine the outcome.

This October, I’ve been sampling newly issued short-story collections from small publishers that specialize in horror and the supernatural. Overall, I prefer the more subtle nuances we associate ...

Indeed, as a genre, horror has always been best represented by short stories and novellas. The Stand, which perennially tops the popular lists of all-time greatest novels and comes in at a mammoth ...

chronologically-arranged short stories – some of which began life as stories on BBC Radio 4 – about life in a valley in the north of England. "There are some stories that are folk horror ...