Scary

Yesterday, upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away

—Hughes Mearns

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Sometimes I give myself the creeps.

Green Day

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The oldest and strongest emotion of humankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

—H.P. Lovecraft

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Do not meddle in the affairs of ghosts, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

—Anonymous

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I do not believe in ghosts
but I am afraid of them.

—Edith Wharton

Simpsons’ The Shinning pt 1, 2

Simpsons’ The Raven

Halloween poems

More Halloween poems

10 scariest movies ever

100 favorite horror stories

What is the scariest song of all time? Poem? YouTube video?

Horror vs Terror

A Night on Bald Mountain part 1, 2

Headless Horseman · legend

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice part 1, 2, 3

Raiders of the Lost Ark: Opening of the Ark

Luke in the cave

Under the Skin: Death

Rosemary’s Baby: Expectancy

Atreyu & Gmork

How to believe ghost stories

Why do people believe in ghosts?

Where science and miracles meet

The broken technology of ghost hunting

When cameras took pictures of ghosts

Eight ghost stories in which the dead won’t go quietly

Ghost stories for nonbelievers

The brain makes its own ghosts

Ouija

You may be surprised by what scares you

Life among the vampires

125 years old and still biting

Tiny vampires

Frankenstein reflects the hopes and fears of every scientific era

What Frankenstein says about climate change

The enduring scariness of the mad scientist

The science fiction that came before science

Regarding zombies

The Zombie Survival Guide

World War Z

A brief history of zombies

The tragic, forgotten history of zombies

The civilizational significance of zombies

8 things everyone needs to know about zombies

Our zombies, ourselves

A zombie is a slave forever

How clowns became terrifying