Seeing the cover of Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1981) has a powerfully Proustian effect on me: my ...

It is 6:14 p.m. on a Thursday. You’re hiking along the Forbes Trail, nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains somewhere ...

Both the book and the film trust their audience to confront mortality honestly. That trust makes for stronger children – and ...

I wrote the book to subvert the common tropes of self-sacrifice for female heroines and using colonialism more than a ...

Two weeks ago, my sister “Holly” was watching our 7-year-old daughter “Sage,” while my wife, “Amber” took our 5-year-old son ...

Signs, The Others, and A Quiet Place are amazing horror movies that you can actually enjoy with the kids and the entire ...

Because Hollywood execs want to make money and ensure that this generation of children will never sleep again, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark — a tome containing tales penned by a demon from hell — ...

The Press-Telegram’s annual Scary Stories Contest is back, and we’re accepting submissions until 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 13.