From Slightly Spooky to Downright Frightening: 8 Haunting New Middle Grade Ghost Stories
October’s the best month to curl up with a spooky story, and so here are some of our absolute favorite…
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The Best Books That Scarred Us For Life
What’s scarier: seeing something jump out at you, or knowing that it could, and imagining how and when? My bet’s on…
The 5 Creepiest Rabbits in Fiction
Easter is upon us, bringing its usual associates: egg hunts, little girls in frilly white dresses, Peeps, and, of course,…
Creepy Fiction for Edward Gorey Fans
The Pumpkin Spice Lattés are afoot. Hocus Pocus is on the television. Candy is everywhere you look. That can only…
Must-Reads for Zombie Fans
Zombies: they just won’t die. Every fictional trend has its moment, but zombies seem to be having a lifetime. Not…
7 Books to Scare You Silly This Winter
Even though I’m a big scaredy cat, I love all things horror. I’m always up for creepy books and scary…
7 Bad Witches We Adore
Books about witches are great every day of the year. I will happily read about witches on Christmas Day, Memorial Day,…
5 New Books That Will Make You Sleep with the Lights On
In honor of the witchiest time of year, we present five books that will scare you worse than the ingredients…
10 Signs You’re Reading a Dystopian Novel
Considering the fact that we’ll all be living in one in the very near future—if depressing internet articles are to…
7 Short Stories That Continue to Disturb Me
Who says it takes 50,000 words to scare the pants off you? Many an author packs a powerful, freaky punch…
The Most Frightening Stories From Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
If you were an impressionable child with an overactive imagination, Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was probably…
The Best Haunted House Books
Have you been by the old Mercer house? The one surrounded by all the bushes and dead trees? Yeah, I…
5 Reasons to Read Doctor Sleep, Stephen King’s Sequel to The Shining
Way back in 1977, Stephen King’s third novel and horrific tour de force, The Shining, was published. It tells the…
The 10 Scariest Goosebumps—Ranked (SPOILER ALERT)
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6 Nonfiction Books That Will Give You Nightmares
Even though I tend to avoid horror movies and books, I have no problem diving into some of the creepiest,…
9 Books For The True-Crime Obsessed
Years ago, I was browsing at a Manhattan Barnes & Noble when a high-spirited woman came up to me holding…
Some Light NSA Reading! 15 Books About Surveillance
Sales of George Orwell’s dystopic novel 1984 have skyrocketed in the wake of the NSA scandal. Clearly, the revelation that…
7 More Reasons to Fear Packaged Food
Can you handle more facts about the food industry, which is playing you like a sugary, cheese-filled fiddle? Read on,…
5 More Incredible Facts from About the Food Industry
Last week, we brought you five scary, disturbing, and just plain weird facts about food gleaned from Michael Moss’s excellent…