Spider-Man is not often known for spooky or scary stories, but there have been several storylines for the Wall-Crawler that did border on horror in Marvel Comics. Spider-Man has mostly grown up in ...

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 ...

Marianne Noble, a professor of literature at American University, does a lecture on the history of Christmas ghost stories at a Profs and Pints event.(WTOP/Mike Murillo) During the holiday season, it ...

Joe Hill doesn’t have to go very far to find the scariest book ever. Just up a rung on his family tree. “That's the gold standard when it comes to scaring the pants off people. No one's ever going to ...

More than three in five spooky genre readers say they could solve a real-life mystery, according to a recent survey. The survey of 2,000 horror, mystery, thriller and true crime readers found that 61% ...

For Halloween, Hollywood loves to scare us with stories of vampires and ghosts. But these Netflix documentaries prove the danger is in real life. When it comes to Halloween and spooky season, ...

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 ...

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 ...