Staff members of The Verge talk about their favorite scary books, videos, and games.
It’s October, which means that all the Halloween lawn and store decorations are out, as are all the holiday TV specials, horror movies, and terrifying games. Which to choose for a really good scare?staff members to tell us about their favorite ways to generate chills, and they came up with a wide variety of Halloween-ish entertainment. Some of their choices are subtly tension-building, some are truly frightening, some are really nasty, and some are just great camp horror.
Whatever types of frights you’re into, you should find something here to help you celebrate what may be our favorite fall holiday.I first encountered Shirley Jackson’s strange and frightening short story “The Lottery” in my freshman year of high school. My English Lit teacher spent the entire period just reading it to us and then opened the floor for what became a very lively discussion.
“The Lottery” is the kind of story that creeps up on you; it takes place in a “normal” New England town, and as it progresses, you slowly begin to realize that something sort of, kind of may be —, in fact — very wrong. But “The Lottery,” which was first published in 1948, is more than a weird tale, although that is certainly enough to recommend it.
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