Ghost Story

A Must-Watch for the Holiday Season: Kier-La Janisse’s The Occupant of the Room

It’s the holiday season – and Severin Films has released a new episode of The Haunted Season entitled The Occupant of the Room (an adaptation of Algernon Blackwood’s 1909 story of the same name), now streaming on Shudder.[1] It’s a wonderful film, a perfect eerie ghost story – better, to be honest, than most of the […]

The Most Terrifying Story I’ve Ever Read: The Little Stranger

Novelist Alma Katsu is known for injecting horror and the supernatural into historical fiction (“makes the supernatural seem possible,” says Publishers Weekly). Her new book, The Hunger, a reimagining of the story of the Donner Party, has just been published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons.    I’ve always loved ghost stories, probably because I grew up […]