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Familiar Horror Comedy Premieres at Toronto Indie Horror Fest

Toronto horror fans can catch one of the year’s strangest vampire films this week. Familiar, an indie horror comedy from writer-director Bird Rogers, premieres at…

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The Waiting Man: One Of Those Winter Horror Films You Need This Spooky Season

Winter has given us seasonal affective disorder (SAD) — a type of depression — but it’s also given us the antidote to SAD: winter horror…

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Behaviour Interactive Shows How Horror Games Became a Billion-Dollar Business

Julien D’Aoust remembers when horror games were considered the industry’s cheap seats. Now his employer, Montreal’s Behaviour Interactive, is one of the reasons that reputation…

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How Found Footage Horror Movies Shaped Analogue’s TikTok Debut

Jacob Ethan Tanner had loved horror for years before he ever tried making it. The genre carried too much weight in his head. “I’ve seen…

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Why Horror Writers Turn Real Fear Into Fiction — And Why It Works

Why do people like horror even when it’s built to scare us? For a handful of horror authors, the answer isn’t about the scare. It’s…

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Martino Manor: One Toronto’s Creepiest Haunts

From Garage Dreams to Professional Screams: The Rise of King City Nightmares

Whispers from the Web: Uncovering Internet Urban Legends

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Paranormal Investigations to Rescue Spirits

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Free Horror Screenings You Don’t Want to...

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History and Culture

If You’re in the UAE, Watch out for Umm Al Duwais

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Exploring the World’s Most Eerie and Haunted Forests

The Paranormal Power Couple: The Life And Times of Ed and Lorraine Warren

An illustration of a Duppy in a tropical cemetery.

The Duppy of Barbados: The Island’s Haunting Spirits

Paranormal and True Crime

The Skinwalker: A Shape-Shifting Creature of Terror

Haunted Spots in Toronto: 10 Sites With Real Ghost Stories

Uncovering A Paranormal Investigation in B.C.

The Butcher of Lahore: Pakistan’s Worst Serial Killer

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The Waiting Man: One Of Those Winter Horror Films You Need This Spooky Season

The Top 10 Most Scary Queer Horror Movies

Talal Selhami Is Building a Moroccan Horror Legacy, One Nightmare at a Time

Queer and Trans Horror Reclaims Fear on Screen

Interviews and Profiles

Martino Manor: One Toronto’s Creepiest Haunts

Reclaiming Horror: Indigenous Voices Transform the Genre

Paranormal Investigations to Rescue Spirits

Bringing Nightmares to Life with Latex Masks

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