MetaFilter posts tagged with horror and ghosts

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Artw — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:33:21 -0800

Stray, The Unfamiliar, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie - Three stories of a group of dogs, and a cat, battling the supernatural courtesy of Evan Dorkin, Jill Thompson and Dark Horse Comics, released for free as a teaser for the forthcoming Beasts of Burden. (via)

Invisible and Redoubtable Beings

Iridic — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:26:12 -0800

"The Great God Pan," by Arthur Machen. "The Beckoning Fair One," by Oliver Onions. "Green Tea," by J. Sheridan LeFanu. "The Boarded Window," by Ambrose Bierce. "The Horla," by Guy de Maupassant.

Things that go bump in the night.

cog_nate — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:23:57 -0800

Cinema Fiction vs. Physics Reality (PDF -- HTML version without addendum here) Two physicists examine certain features of popular myths regarding ghosts, vampires, and zombies as they appear in film and folklore. See also Real Zombies (audio) on the science of zombiefication. Also of interest are Psychological significance of Immortal beings (audio) and Blood Fighting: Dawn of the Robots and Zombies (video), which delve into the prominence of vampires, zombies and other things that go bump in the night in popular culture. Not to your liking? Well, check out some classic (and some not-so-classic) horror tales inside. Ghosts:
Native Ghost Stories (10/31/00) (audio)
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (audio)
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories (audio)
True Irish ghost stories (text)
Greek and Roman Ghost Stories (text)
Indian Ghost Stories: Second Edition (text)
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories (text)
Tormented (video)
Tales of the Supernatural (video)
The Ghost Walks (video)

Vampires:
The Last Man on Earth (video)
The Vampire Bat (video)
Nosferatu (video)
Distorsion, 2005-11-22 (audio, in French)

Zombies:
Revolt of the Zombies (video)
Amid the Dead (video)
Teenage Zombies(video)
King of the Zombies (video)
(Not located: Attack of the masturbating zombies!)

fantastic folk monsters of Japan

madamjujujive — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:28:13 -0800

The Obakemono Project - a Gaijin's guide to the fantastic folk monsters of Japan. (via oink)

Amityville Horror, revisited

KirkJobSluder — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:55:51 -0800

The house in Amityville with the fan-shaped windows making an inhuman face is the Godzilla of haunted house movies. The town and current owner of the house where the DeFeo family was murdered try to downplay (registration required) its signficance. The trademark windows in the original have been replaced to disguise its identity, and lawsuits force studios to use a house-double. Although latest remake claims the status of "true story," the case has been widely dismissed as a hoax and the 2005 film has even rased the ire of George Lutz for how he is portrayed as the haunted father-figure. Other people involved in the case including convicted murder DeFeo are unhappy with the new attention. Still, the story has its true believers and psychics who argue the debunkers have their own agenda. Then again, Texas Chainsaw Massacre was also claimed by the same production company to be "inspired by a true story."

The Moonlit Road

plep — Sun, 15 Jun 2003 07:18:31 -0800

The Moonlit Road. A fine collection of ghost stories from the American South.
People who like this may also be interesting in How to Fake a Ghost Photo, or Haunted Mobile Homes.

thomas j wise — Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:02:05 -0800

Literary Gothic offers up a splendid smorgasboard of literary ghosts, ghouls, goblins, and, of course, gothic. As a Victorianist, I have a particular predilection for their ghost stories. Many more Victorian tales of the terrifying--and just plain weird--can be found at this site, which also features an ongoing reading group. [more inside]