Halloween Tricks And Audio Treats
Quoth The Raven: 'Baltimore'()
October 30, 2009 The Halloween season has an extra chill factor in Baltimore, the adopted city of writer Edgar Allan Poe. This year, an exhibit at the city's art museum features work inspired by some of the author's scariest stories.
In Serial Killer's Former Home, A Search For Ghosts()
October 30, 2009 Musician Chris Butler was looking for a house where he could make loud music without disturbing his neighbors. He found the perfect house and for a deal, but it came with certain "conditions." The house was the childhood home of Jeffrey Dahmer and the scene of Dahmer's first killing.
Three Books...
Devilishly Good Books Terrify ... And Delight()
October 30, 2009 How long has it been since you felt the needle jab of panic or were startled to glimpse a pale face in the window? Nothing makes you feel more alive — or cherish the relative safety and normalcy of life — than dangling your foot over the edge of a cliff and then withdrawing it. These books will do just that.
Halloween Theme Parks Bring Spooks ... And Jobs()
October 30, 2009 NHPRThe economy might be scarier than the Halloween theme parks cropping up this time of year, but people will pay good money for a fright that doesn't involve their 401(k). Haunted house theme parks are expected to rake in more than half a billion dollars this season.
Books We Like
300 Years of American Terror, Insanity And Awe()
October 29, 2009 The impulse to scare ourselves has been around for centuries, as American Fantastic Tales, the new two-volume horror anthology from The Library of America, proves. Editor Peter Straub has done a superb job with both his story selections and hyperliterate introductions.
Miami's Deering Estate: A Real Haunted House?()
October 28, 2009 A team of people who investigated a 1920s mansion in Miami says they found evidence that it's haunted. The estate expected about 75 visitors to come hear the first presentation of that evidence. Almost 400 people showed up. The big turnout is in line with a national uptick in ghost-hunting TV shows.
Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!
Submissions To The 'Wait, Wait' Pumpkin Carving Contest()
October 28, 2009 We asked, and you carved!
A Southern Reflection On Halloweens Past()
October 28, 2009 Halloween isn't all candy and goblins, cauldrons and spiderwebs; for commentator Teresa Nicholas, Halloween in the Deep South is a time for wistful remembrance of Halloweens long gone.
Rule Of The Undead: Zombies Invade Bookstores()
October 18, 2009 As Halloween approaches, new generations of literary zombies are rising from the dead and shambling towards the bookshelves — ready to entertain (and frighten) readers of all ages.
Goosebumps And Guffaws In Stine's 'HorrorLand'()
October 31, 2008 Can a children's author strike gold twice? R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series sold more than 300 million copies in the 1990s. Now, he's hoping to revisit that success with Goosebumps: HorrorLand.
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