Just in time for Halloween, Folio Society is releasing a 200-page trove of supernatural Japanese folklore tailor-made for booklovers.

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 ...

From haunted zoo cages to ghostly bar owners, here are five stories from our archives that will make you shiver, or maybe ...

In another recent Halloween-themed post here, I discussed the psychology behind the nature of ghost stories and, to a degree, horror stories more generally. In response to a comment about what I ...