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 ...

Each year as Halloween approaches, I grow nostalgic for the spooky anthologies that first introduced me to “scary stories.” I recall, with particular fondness, “Haunted Houseful,” “Ghostly Gallery” ...