“Between the Lights,” first published in Benson’s 1912 collection The Room in the Tower and Other Stories, is set in a quintessentially spooky mansion in the English countryside at Christmastime, ...

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 ...

For her latest research project, Edward Little Professor of the English and Cinema Studies Aviva Briefel is exploring the ...

Author and documentarian Kier-La Janisse makes her narrative film debut with 'The Occupant of the Room,' now on Shudder.

Christmas slashers are all the rage. From the forthcoming Violent Night to the early classics like Black Christmas and Silent Night, Deadly Night, there’s no shortage of yuletide slaughter to make the ...

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 ...

Aya Tsintziras is a freelance writer who writes about TV, movies, and has a particular interest in the horror genre. She has a Political Science degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters of ...

In Victorian England, Ghost Stories Were a Beloved Christmas Tradition A version of this story originally ran in 2021; it has been updated for 2025. Halloween Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol ...

Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s bestselling fiction is both widely varied and firmly rooted — tied to the culture of the Canadian immigrant’s native Mexico and tethered to the genres she has loved since ...

Horror is actually good for you. That bold statement comes from Mark A. Fabrizi, who traces an almost lifelong fascination with the genre. “Horror appeals to almost all of us, whether we admit it or ...

Alex Lawther as Simon Rifkind looking scared and holding a cell phone in poster for Ghost Stories. Image via Lionsgate For more than ten years now, Alex Lawther has been carefully crafted his acting ...

"Will leave you gasping for air." "A spellbinding horror film." Neon has debuted a final official trailer for Steven Soderbergh's ghost story horror film Presence - following up the main official ...