There’s nothing like the innocent sweetness of a child’s smile—until you wake in the middle of the night and find the little tyke leaning over you with a menacing grin on his face, whispering something like, “Mommy must go next” in a deep, inhuman voice. Then it’s not so much “look how adorable my kid looks in his footie […]

Have you been by the old Mercer house? The one surrounded by all the bushes and dead trees? Yeah, I thought it was abandoned, too, but sometimes at night you can see a light go on upstairs. My older sister’s best friend’s boyfriend disappeared there one night on a full moon. He was dared by […]

There’s something primal about a haunted house story—stories in which a structure that’s supposed to shelter you turns against you. It’s a trope that we keep returning to—this week, Netflix launched a new series based on the classic Shirley Jackson novel The Haunting of Hill House, and the results are truly terrifying (if at a bit […]