Creepy, spooky, and scary middle grade books for kids are often readers’ favorite kinds of books. Here are the best scary books for brave readers! Because if your readers love a good jolt of ...

What kid doesn’t love a good ghost story, especially when the Halloween season rolls around? Two years ago, I had this question on my mind when I developed a two-day curriculum for an extracurricular ...

From haunted mansions to eerie adventures, these games offer age-appropriate scares and suspense for the whole family to ...

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 ...

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 ...

It would be hard to find one. Michael Wilson’s adaptation of “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas,” first staged in Houston but run for many years at Hartford Stage (where it has returned ...

The winds have brought a familiar chill to the air, and the leaves are turning. Fall is back, and the Halloween season is in full swing. That means carving pumpkins, candy and, of course, ghost ...