When you are away from the city, camping in the woods with your family and friends, it is fun to have a good collection of short and scary ghost stories for kids. You can sing songs together ...

(Image credit: Warner Bros.) Beetlejuice (1988) Director Tim Burton's horror-comedy classic Beetlejuice was one of the first ghost stories to flip the script by following ghosts trying to rid ...

A collection of spooky short fiction by Edith Wharton and a historical nonfiction narrative about a woman who claimed to be haunted. By Sadie Stein Dear readers, We all have our forms of escapism ...

There are several possible reasons why people tell ghost stories. One explanation is that our fear of the unknown makes these tales appealing. We don’t understand much about death and the ...

Let’s remember that Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is a ghost story. Telling dark and scary tales for the holidays is a tradition that dates back to pagan times.

In honor of Halloween, we're bringing you a Short Wave ghost story — featuring an animal that has long been the stuff of conservationist legend: the American red wolf. This small, cinnamon ...

Christmastime ghost stories never really caught on in the United States, according to Noble, despite singer Andy Williams promising, “There’ll be scary ghost stories, and tales of the glories ...

As Halloween approaches, people are often finding fun in the spooky and unsettling. While some frights may come from horror movies or haunted houses, Vermont is a state where real scary stories live.