Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum In 1864, a book called Spectropia set out to expose how the brain can trick people into believing they’ve seen a ghost. Across 27 pages ... came to be so well ...

From Harlan Ellison to Haruki Murakami, via an intergalactic cooking competition, this month has plenty of science fictional ...

Beginning with his acclaimed 2018 debut novel The Loney, Andrew Michael Hurley has spooked readers with his tales of strange ...

Halloween is upon us, which means it’s a good excuse to watch some films from one of cinema’s most under appreciated genres: ...

A Missoula theater company is producing a new award-winning play, "Galatea," by a Bay Area playwright at the ZACC Show Room ...

The term gothic was first applied to fiction in the mid-18th century, and to this day conjures brooding atmospheres, ...

As the crisp autumn leaves crunch underfoot and Jack O'Lanterns flicker to life, our thoughts turn to the eerie and ...

It began on the morning that had dawned like any other: a mild sun straggling into the ashen autumn sky; grey clouds impaling themselves upon the tips of High Town’s towers; weak rivulets of light ...

When sea level rises and salt water floods coastal forests, it kills the trees. What’s left behind is called a ghost forest.

Sea level rise and other factors cause coastal trees to die where they stand, and climate change is making matters worse.

Scientists at federal research institutions throughout the US are digging into so-called "ghost forests," or clusters of dead trees left behind after being poisoned by the sea. Their work ...