This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. In this week after Halloween, it's fitting that we talk about ghost stories. Conor McPherson, the prolific Irish dramatist, is a master of modern ghost stories ...

Whether you are watching a horror classic, such as “The Shining” or “Poltergeist,” or laughing at the over-the-top antics of “Beetlejuice” or the “Ghostbusters,” ghost stories abound during Halloween.

Susan Hill's classic ghost story, The Woman in Black, is a gothic novel about Arthur Kipps, a London lawyer who is summoned to the funeral of Alice Drablow, a reclusive widow, to settle her estate. As ...

James (1862–1936), a Cambridge don, laid the foundations of the modern ghost story with the 33 well-wrought antiquarian tales collected here. In “ ‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad,’ ” a note ...

In anticipation of Halloween, I just picked up a complete collection of the ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ book series (Alvin Schwartz, 1981; 1984; 1991), which I loved as a kid (despite a few of ...