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 ...

The short days and long nights of winter provide us with the opportunity for reflection on dark topics such as 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 ...

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 ...

As Halloween creeps ever closer, I find myself trying to make the season last as long as possible. From strolls through a local graveyard to getting lost in a corn maze to watching black cats frolic ...

The winds have brought a familiar chill to the air, and the leaves are turning. Fall is back, and the Halloween season is in full swing. That means carving pumpkins, candy and, of course, ghost ...

But in Victorian England, Christmas was an opportunity to exchange gruesome stories of ghosts, evil spirits, and people gone mad. A Spooky Season According to Sara Cleto, an expert in folklore who ...

It’s spooky season, and what better way to spend Halloween weekend than settling in to watch a classic Hollywood ghost story? To help you figure out what to watch, we’ve compiled a handy list of 15 ...