From Anne Boleyn to Abraham Lincoln, these historical figures have inspired all manner of ghost stories and legends since ...

The story everyone knows goes like this: a grieving widow, told by a Boston ...

Aleina Grace Edwards is a writer and researcher, as well as a former internationally-ranked fencer and World of Warcraft addict. She grew up in Los Angeles and is currently based in Reno, Nevada. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Kevin Brockmeier about The Ghost Variations, a collection of 100 ghost stories that ponders what haunts us in this life and might make us linger in the next. Sponsor ...

A Ghost Story (2017) is a hauntingly beautiful film helmed by David Lowery, that offers a unique and contemplative exploration of time, loss, and the afterlife. Starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara, ...

Childhood stories often have the power to linger in the mind for the entirety of our lives. For me, a longtime Washington Post reporter, an eerie legend seared my memory as a child in the 1980s. It’s ...

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 ...

That BBC mainstay, A Ghost Story for Christmas, is back again this year, another victory for writer-director Mark Gatiss, who has been spearheading its revival for years. This year, Gatiss is adapting ...