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But, we must not forget the debt ‘modern horror’ owes to the influence of the humble ghost story; thus, the core focus of our exploration refers to the psychology behind foundational tales.

We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. 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 ...

Ghost stories have been told for centuries; they are "a way of exploring the boundaries between life and death, between the known and the unknown, between order and chaos," Susan Hill, author of ...

Click or tap for larger version. It's not hard to find ghost stories in a big old city like London. The phantom population is such that we can easily find at least one haunting* for every inner ...

From the Bell Witch, mysterious mansions, and haunted prisons, there are plenty of ghost stories across the Volunteer State. We’ve put together a map of some of Tennessee’s most unnatural ...

Time to sit by the fire and indulge in the safe and spooky scare that ghost stories give young readers. There is no better place to start than with Kieran Fanning’s Haunted Ireland: An Atlas of ...

To embrace life’s full purpose, we need to be willing to let it go. In “A Ghost Story” (2017), written and directed by David Lowery, we meet a young couple, credited only as C (Casey Affleck ...

Wilmington is an old town, and old towns are full of ghosts. Or at least ghost stories. We all know the locally famous ones, like how the ghost of Samuel Jocelyn, after supposedly being buried ...

There’s no better time of year than now for for a candlelit ghostly walking tour. In these tours, you can explore some of the legends that haunt the nation’s capital, from horror movie locations to ...

Just in time for Halloween, federal scientists this week announced new research into so-called "ghost forests," spooky tracts of dead trees common along the Eastern Seaboard. According to the ...

"I sat in the library flabbergasted, that I was looking at potentially a lost ghost story from Stoker, especially one from ...