‘Everything I know about evil I learned in that small town’: John Carpenter on terrifying the world with Halloween, The Thing and The Fog

At 78, the king of horror and sci-fi movies is as much of a rebel as ever. He talks about creativity, compromise (he’s not a fan) and how he became addicted to moviemaking

This Musical Instrument Sounds Like Unearthly Horrors Breaking into the Human Realm

Gobsmacked! Supernatural Sightings After a Kentucky Flood

Lora Eli Smith reports on mysterious goblin-like creatures sightings by Eastern Kentucky residents after the devastating 2022 floods.

How the whip-poor-will became an iconic bird of American horror - Fast Company

Lovecraft’s and King’s fictional whip-poor-wills draw on widespread Indigenous, European, and American beliefs about the species.

Iconic Bird of American Horror Stories Faces Its Own Terrifying Fate

The Whip-Poor-Will’s shrill, death-proclaiming song populates the works of Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft. But the bird itself has fallen on hard times. Could it become a ghost of Halloweens past?

Death as a Child: The Modern Legend of the Black-Eyed Children

First described in Texas in the mid-90s, what are these disturbing figures—and what do they want?