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Microscopic Wasps Will Help Stamp Out a Moth Infestation at Anne Boleyn’s Ancestral Home

Blickling Hall in Norfolk, England.

Microscopic Wasps Will Help Stamp Out a Moth Infestation at Anne Boleyn’s Ancestral Home

7 Facts About Los Angeles's Notorious Cecil Hotel

The exterior of Los Angeles's Cecil Hotel, as seen in Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (2021).

7 Facts About Los Angeles's Notorious Cecil Hotel

Zak Bagans Shares 16 Behind-the-Scenes Facts About Ghost Adventures

Zak Bagans and his Ghost Adventures team.

Zak Bagans Shares 16 Behind-the-Scenes Facts About Ghost Adventures

The Lizzie Borden Ax Murder House Has Hit the Market

David, Flickr // CC BY 2.0

The Lizzie Borden Ax Murder House Has Hit the Market

9 Horror Movies Inspired by Real-Life Events

Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, and Steve Coulter in The Conjuring (2013).

The Smart—and Scientific—Reason Freddy Krueger’s Sweater Is Red and Green-Striped

A sweater-clad cosplayer at Long Beach's Comic and Horror Con in 2012.

ScareHouse: How a Famously In-Your-Face Haunted House Is Using the Pandemic to Its Advantage

ScareHouse is serving up a ton of (socially-distanced) terrors in Tarentum, Pennsylvania.

10 Facts About Famed Paranormal Investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren  

Ed Warren and Lorraine Warren in Amityville II: The Possession (1982).

A New Documentary Investigates West Virginia’s Infamous Mothman

The Mothman statue in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

Plague Doctors, Tiger Kings, and Clowns, Oh My: These Are Spirit Halloween’s Hottest Costumes of 2020

Mike Mozart, Flickr // CC BY 2.0

11 of Our Favorite Horror Books

Penguin/Image Comics/Amazon

The Real-Life Origins of 15 Urban Legends

He's (probably) not hiding in your shower.

The Grim, Ghostly History of Scotland's 'Most Haunted' Graveyard

Ghostly legends surround the mausoleum of George Mackenzie.

11 Women Horror Writers You Need to Read

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15 Halloween Movies for People Who Don’t Like Horror Movies

Peter Boyle and Gene Wilder in Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein (1974).

8 Frightening Facts about Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw

John La Farge's title illustration for The Turn of the Screw in Collier's Weekly, 1898.
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