Susan Hill's classic ghost story, The Woman in Black, is a gothic novel about Arthur Kipps, a London lawyer who is summoned to the funeral of Alice Drablow, a reclusive widow, to settle her estate. As ...

I think I’m a better writer in 2025 than I was in 2003, so I really have kind of rewritten the whole book,” he said. The ...

In 1500 B.C.E., ancient Babylonian cities were centers of scholarly activity; significant advancements in medicine, mathematics, astronomy and writing were constantly emerging during this time. Aside ...

It’s not a tradition that’s much followed today, but in the Victorian era, gathering around the fireplace on Christmas Eve to tell ghost stories was one of the mainstays of the holiday period. How the ...

It’s spooky season, and what better way to spend Halloween weekend than settling in to watch a classic Hollywood ghost story? To help you figure out what to watch, we’ve compiled a handy list of 15 ...

If you can find them, the 1970s BBC adaptations of classic MR James ghost stories are genuinely spooky (the more recent adaptations by Mark Gatiss have generally been disappointing). There are also ...