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The Birch is based on a short film with the same title, which elegantly blends fantasy and horror.

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The ghosts that appear in The Grudge are based off the Japanese legend of the Onryo. The Onryo is a vengeful spirit that can physically manifest itself to attack and kill victims.

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When Joe was a teenager, he would write every single day and hand his father the pages to edit. Even as an adult, it is common for the family to pass around their writing.

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The creaks you hear in the middle of the night might be a product of an old house. Or they might be the sounds of someone walking through your halls uninvited.

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La Llorona is stuck between the living and dead realms, weeping while she searches for her boys. 

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The spookiest stories for the spookiest month of the year.

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It isn’t the mundane type of secret either: Dad isn’t hiding any affairs, Mom doesn’t drink herself to sleep, and my sister doesn’t sneak boys or drugs up to her room. They do, however, all have their own demons, and they keep them hidden from the rest of the world.

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This was a first for me. I’ve never seen a doctor pronounce a child stillborn with a hand over its mouth to suppress its cries

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“So…just have sex? With random girls?”

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The line was still connected while my caller was attacked, and what I heard for the next 30 seconds made me puke at my desk.