It is easy to see Halloween as an inappropriate time for children. With its mixture of bloody costumes and scary themes, it can often feel like it is luring kids into topics they are not ready to ...

Seeing the cover of Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (1981) has a powerfully Proustian effect on me: my stomach drops a little bit and a shiver of twinned fear and delight runs down ...

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Absolutely! Besides being captivating, fast-paced and great competition for the often-dreaded screen time, scary stories help kids learn how to deal with the real world. They are a way to acknowledge ...

Ghosts, goblins and ghouls beware: PBS has stories about you to share. Spookify your October with scary stories, terrifying tales, whispers of witches, daunting documentaries and more, all guaranteed ...