11 Enlightening Facts About Bram Stoker
Today, Bram Stoker is best known as the author of 'Dracula.' But in life, he was better known as a theatrical manager.
Today, Bram Stoker is best known as the author of 'Dracula.' But in life, he was better known as a theatrical manager.
“You can’t hope to direct [Klaus] Kinski,” John Vulich, a makeup effects artist on 'Crawlspace' once said about the 1986 low-budget horror movie’s leading man. “You can only document him.”
The life of Edgar Allan Poe, author of 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and other horror stories, was as strange as his fiction.
Critics didn’t quite know what to make of 'Let’s Scare Jessica to Death' when it premiered in 1971. But it has since morphed into a cult classic.
Discover 13 essential horror novels to read that were published in the last five years like 'The Hunger' by Alma Katsu and 'Plain Bad Heroines' by Emily M. Danforth.
The landmark 1981 horror film launched both the 'Evil Dead' franchise and the career of noted chin Bruce Campbell.
For employees at Disneyland Paris’s Phantom Manor in 2016, the attraction’s harmless spookiness turned genuinely macabre.
'The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It' is the third entry in this frightening film series to dive into the case files of Ed and Lorraine Warren.
To be fair, Stephen King was high on painkillers at the time, and he did eventually finish the movie.
This video on the making of 'The Shining' shows Stanley Kubrick, Jack Nicholson, and Shelley Duvall on the set of the classic horror movie.
The master of modern horror has made readers jump out of their chairs for decades thanks to excerpts like these, which are best read after dark.
Shirley Jackson finished writing the story around 1944. It's been residing in a box at the Library of Congress since 1965.
Homicidal clown Pennywise's sartorial choices are up for bid at a major Hollywood auction that also includes the original Chestburster prop from 1979's 'Alien.'
'Cat People' made millions for RKO Pictures and subversively revolutionized the horror genre. Here are 11 facts about this hair-raising classic.
Filmmakers have been making movies about vampires almost since the inception of motion pictures, and our public fascination with these creatures of the night has not yet dimmed. Here are 25 of the best of them.
From Chucky to Frankenstein, these are the horror movie villains people are searching for in all 50 states.
By measuring the heart rates of viewers, GIGACalculator.com has determined the most terrifying movies in the horror genre.
While 'The Conjuring' films, 'The Amityville Horror,' and 'The Haunting In Connecticut' brought paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren fame, the question of who they were behind the films remains as interesting as ever.
Broadly speaking, you know what you’re getting at the end of a horror movie. But the cleverest scary movies upend our definition of "scary" altogether.
“If you see a giant toilet bowl or SpongeBob on your next Zoom call, you can blame us. We don't mind.” —Spirit Halloween
The Pennsylvania farmhouse that served as serial killer Buffalo Bill's home in 'The Silence of the Lambs' has hit the market.
There's no better time of year to crack open a new horror book, and if you're in need of recommendations, the Mental Floss staff has you covered.
The axe used by Jack Nicholson in 1980's 'The Shining' recently sold for $209,000. A crew member originally took it home so he could chop wood with it.
The site is actually a real Boy Scouts camp in Hardwick, New Jersey, and organizers are allowing for a socially-distanced touring schedule—in the dark.