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Special effects may be lacking, but vintage horror films still manage to keep our palms sweating and blood pumping; a look back at retro horror films, stories, books and characters that prove everything is scarier in black and white.

Here Comes a Candle
"Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper—to chop off your head!" English jump rope song. The candle guttered low on the table next to the bed. Curling tendrils of poison seeped from its dripping, wax cylinder. The tip was a lighted eye dancing in the darkness, winking open and closed, coyly. Death was playing its game.
By Tom Baker5 months ago in Horror
The Mystery of the Doppelgängers
There are few things more unsettling than seeing your own face staring back at you. Not from a mirror, not from a photo, but from across the street, or sitting silently in a chair that should be empty. The idea of the "Doppelgänger"; the double who walks in your shadow, has haunted human imagination for centuries. Across cultures and generations, stories emerge of people meeting their exact twin: same eyes, same posture, same very essence.
By Veil of Shadows5 months ago in Horror
The Last Stop
The Last Stop BY:Khan The scorching heat weighed heavily on Farah Naz as she stood at the crowded bus stop. The traffic jam had already lasted for half an hour, and the bus she was waiting for was nowhere in sight. Her day had been longer than usual; exams were just around the corner, so she had spent extra time at the library revising her notes.
By Khan 5 months ago in Horror
Season 3: Whispers of the Forgotten: A Descent into Eldoria Manor
Chapter 1 The voice was a grotesque symphony of metal scraping against metal, a guttural, digitized echo of a human speaking. It was the sound of Lord Alaric's obsession made manifest. Silas lowered his pistol slightly, his eyes wide with stunned horror. This was no ghost. This was something tangible, something real.
By Tales That Breathe at Night5 months ago in Horror
Confirmed: The Amytiville Horror franchise will add a new movie
To the delight of horror fans, The Amytiville Horror franchise has decided to add a new film to the legendary saga. It should be noted that this fictional universe has more than thirty films, including prequels, spin-offs, and sequels. Not all of the stories are connected chronologically to the original 1979 film, The Amytiville Horror, but they belong to the same universe.
By Ninfa Galeano5 months ago in Horror
The Flannan Isles Mystery: The Lighthouse Keepers Who Vanished Without a Trace
The ocean has always held secrets. Ships disappear, storms swallow entire fleets, and coastlines whisper stories of tragedy. But few mysteries are as chilling—and as enduring—as the tale of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse Keepers, three men who simply vanished, leaving behind a scene so eerie that investigators and historians are still debating it more than a century later.
By Amanullah5 months ago in Horror
Beneath Paris: The Cruel Kingdom of the Catacombs. Content Warning.
The warning carved above the entrance to the Paris Catacombs is not a metaphor—it’s a promise. Thirty meters beneath the boulevards of the City of Light stretches a labyrinth of bones and silence. A subterranean empire built from cruelty, disease, and fear. Six million dead arranged into art. Six million stories silenced.
By E. hasan5 months ago in Horror
Season 2 :Whispers of the Forgotten: A Descent into Eldoria Manor
Chapter 1 The van’s engine hummed, a comforting, mundane sound that stood as a stark contrast to the small, ornate music box vibrating gently in Alistair Finch's hands. The melody that had begun to play in the vehicle was no longer a distant threat; it was now a constant, chilling presence, a sinister tune of grinding gears and synthesized strings. It was the music of a madman's heart.
By Tales That Breathe at Night5 months ago in Horror
The Scariest UFO Encounters on Record...
We begin this story with a simple but chilling claim: what follows are not campfire inventions, nor “sounds creepy, so let’s include it” filler. These are documented eyewitness accounts. Cases preserved in files, reports, and transcripts, that anyone can access. That fact alone multiplies the dread tenfold.
By Veil of Shadows5 months ago in Horror
When the Dead Walked
The world as I knew it ended the day the dead began to walk. It started small, almost unnoticed—a strange virus spreading through remote villages, isolated cases reported on the news. At first, it seemed like another headline to scroll past, a weird flu, a localized epidemic. But then the reports escalated: people attacking their friends and family with unnatural ferocity, bodies reanimating after death, relentless and hungry.
By Hamad Haider5 months ago in Horror
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Dario Argento was still a few years from being the acknowledged maestro of Italian horror cinema when he made this effective and absorbing little Giallo (i.e. “yellow” films, originally a reference to cheap Italian knockoffs of popular English mystery and crime books). It presents to us a rather trite concept—a man that can’t remember the murder, or, in this case, attempted murder he witnesses. We’re never quite apprised of why this is the case; I mean, he doesn’t seem like the sort of fellow who is suffering from shock. However, we’re taken on a slow immersion into the world of Mr. Dalmas the writer, who is in Italy to recharge his literary batteries and, along the way, score with all the hot Italian ladies. Or, at the very least, one blonde one, Julia (Suzy Kendall).
By Tom Baker5 months ago in Horror
The Lead Masks Case: Brazil’s Cosmic Suicide
“They dressed for a party no one else was invited to. Then they died... faces shielded, secrets intact.” Act I: The Hill of Secrets
By Veil of Shadows5 months ago in Horror