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A truly scary story is great no matter how long or short it is. If it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up, it's doing its job. Short horror stories may originate around campfires or in ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) — For much of Harper Lee’s life, “To Kill a Mockingbird” stood alone as her only major work; her first and, apparently, last novel, narrated by a voice so clear and coherent it seemed impossible ...

The Short North Stage will once again honor “The Rocky Horror Show,” a movie that was at first considered a failure before rising to enduring cult classic status, with its own production starting this ...

What scares the people who make a living from scaring us? At the annual Fantastic Fest film festival in Austin, Texas, Polygon talked to a lot of horror directors about their new movies, so we took ...

“Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” is a series of three collections of short horror stories for children, written by Alvin Schwartz. The titles of the books are: “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” ...