Sourcing family friendly frightening fiction can be a bit challenging. That said, while straightforward horror texts rarely ...

The psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud discussed the roots of the uncanny in the familiar, something that is altered just enough to ...

Note that these aren't just dark fantasy films--they're often classified as horror from various sources, they just happen to ...

Seeing the cover of Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1981) has a powerfully Proustian effect on me: my ...

Halloween fun comes alive with five-word horror stories, stirring up creativity and chills. Listeners share their ...

Mead Public Library and the Sheboygan Press teamed up on a scary story contest for students in grades 3-12. Seven winners ...

Here are the elementary school students who came in first to third place in the P-T’s annual Scary Stories Contest.

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was based on Alvin Schwartz’s iconic collection of short horror ...

Mead Public Library and the Sheboygan Press teamed up on a scary story contest for students in grades 3-12. Seven winners were selected. Each winner will receive prizes from the library and have their ...

I’m talking about the 1978 animated version of Richard Adams’ Watership Down. I was perhaps four when I saw it. The opening sequence remains a core memory: the myth of the Prince with a Thousand ...

From kids to scaredy-cats, not everyone is into hardcore horror. Here are 25 Halloween-ready movies more about thrills than ...

Editor’s note: These are fictional tales submitted for the Press-Telegram’s annual Scary Stories Contest for the high school ...