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 ...

Each year as Halloween approaches, I grow nostalgic for the spooky anthologies that first introduced me to “scary stories.” I recall, with particular fondness, “Haunted Houseful,” “Ghostly Gallery” ...

(via SciShow) There are a lot of scary science stories that go around the Internet. It's easy for a single paper to get spun up into a media frenzy, and harder for the level-headed truth to prevail.

Creepy, spooky, and scary middle grade books for kids are often readers’ favorite kinds of books. Here are the best scary books for brave readers! Because if your readers love a good jolt of ...

Spooky season is almost upon us — so you know what that means. It’s time for Long Beach area students to frighten us with their most haunting stories and morbid drawings. With this article, the ...

Seeing the cover of Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1981) has a powerfully Proustian effect on me: my stomach drops a little bit and a shiver of twinned fear and delight runs down ...

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