“While I personally love Casper, we’re in the business of terror here at Jezebel.”— Maria Sherman, jezebel.com
“He showed cameras installed in tissue boxes. Smoke detectors. Clocks. Pens. Water bottles. Picture frames. Outlets. Screws. Phone chargers. They were nearly impossible to detect, even when you were actively looking for them. It scared the crap out of me.”— January Nelson, thoughtcatalog.com
“‘Tis the season to get spooky, and there’s no better way to get in the Halloween mindset than to dive into a creepy-crawly book or true crime longread.”— Kara Nesvig, violethourblog.com
“My phone — which was sitting on the table between us — had been listening to our entire conversation.”— January Nelson, thoughtcatalog.com
“I looked at Adam, at the bottom of the bed, to see if he’d moved the covers or something but he was just sitting there, still and silent. Adam’s voice then spoke, but his voice didn’t come from the end of the bed, it came from right alongside me; 'Emma why are you sitting at the end of the bed?'”— Frida Garza, jezebel.com
“One night J’s boyfriend stayed over, and the guy woke up the next morning with a stinging red bite mark on his wrist—the teeth marks didn’t match his or J’s (or mine), and we had been the only three there.”— Frida Garza, jezebel.com
“The insane are the characters in our horror stories for a reason. They're the dark side, the negative image of who we are and that's fascinating. And utterly terrifying.”— Glen Morgan, Aaron Mahnke, Aaron Mahnke, imdb.com
“Thanks to the efforts of her father Mercy Brown, the first American vampire, is still alive today.”— Jeff Eckerle, Marilyn Osborn, Aaron Mahnke, Aaron Mahnke, imdb.com
“It's his story that gives him that power. It's believing in him that keeps him alive.”— Tyler Hisel, Aaron Mahnke, Aaron Mahnke, imdb.com
“No matter what we do, evil in men always seems to return. Perhaps that evil would be easier to accept if we could blame it on werewolves.”— David Coggeshall, Aaron Mahnke, Aaron Mahnke, imdb.com
“According to legend, one thing always gave a werewolf away. Werewolves didn't have tails ,because they were just men. Cursed me.”— David Coggeshall, Aaron Mahnke, Aaron Mahnke, imdb.com
“Just because it's folklore doesn't mean we shouldn't listen.”— Glen Morgan, Aaron Mahnke, Aaron Mahnke, imdb.com
“Telling scary stories is something people have done for thousands of years, for most of us like being scared in that way. Since there isn't any danger, we think it is fun.”— Alvin Schwartz, amazon.com
“I stare at the newborn in my arms, wondering what went wrong. Babies shouldn't have this many sharp teeth, their jaws shouldn't be this wide...and they definitely shouldn't be able to speak full, horrific sentences at two hours old.”— Marisa, business.facebook.com
“Driving home late one night I came upon skid marks that veered off the road, since it was raining I didn't stop. I found out a week later that the driver had laid in the ditch for three days after that night before passing away.”— Joseph, business.facebook.com
“He looked at the moonlit path with some trepidation, but decided it was only his nerves and he would proceed. As he walked down the path he felt the sharp pain on his neck, then stumbled and fell to the ground; his head rolling down the path like a rotted pumpkin.”— Rodney, business.facebook.com
“'Mommy, I had a bad dream. Can I snuggle with you?' my daughter asked as she stood in my dark doorway, holding her old teddy bear, her voice hoarse from the graveyard dirt clogging her throat.”— Liz, business.facebook.com
“As an older gentleman and a young child were walking through the woods, the child looked up and said 'It's getting dark and a little scary'. The older gentleman looked down and said with a smile, 'I'm the one that has to walk out of here alone'.”— David, business.facebook.com