In Victorian England, Ghost Stories Were a Beloved Christmas Tradition A version of this story originally ran in 2021; it has been updated for 2025. Halloween Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol ...

For her latest research project, Edward Little Professor of the English and Cinema Studies Aviva Briefel is exploring the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Am I the only one who is tired of seeing so many haunted house movies with the same formula of watching the living get the pants scared off them by the dead? I would actually rather watch a ghost ...

Tallahassee's 200-year history has produced numerous local haunts, legends, and ghost stories. Local legends include haunted buildings on Florida State University's campus and the former Sunland ...

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 ...

When Milwaukee-area native Anna Lardinois was an English teacher years ago, she spent her spring breaks travelling to other cities. She loves walking around cities at night, but as a woman traveling ...