Susan Hill's classic ghost story, The Woman in Black, is a gothic novel about Arthur Kipps, a London lawyer who is summoned to the funeral of Alice Drablow, a reclusive widow, to settle her estate. As ...

Ghost Stories ’ addressee is partly Auster, Hustvedt’s decades-long interlocutor. Didion also writes about thinking, in the ...

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 ...

Have you ever experienced a strange presence, supernatural encounter or ghostly apparition? If so, you aren’t alone. According to a Gallup poll, at least one in three Americans believes in some kind ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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