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Join us in the Haunted Library as we chat with author Nat Segaloff about his latest book, The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear. Segaloff's history with the film go way to the film's release when he worked publicity for the Boston theatre that screened it. 

As The Exorcist turns 50, Segaloff tackles the origin behind William Peter Blatty's book, the film and all that follows. The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of...

Hey Scaredy Cats. For the longest time, I had one movie on my to watch list that was my white whale. I had seen it lauded as one of the scariest movies ever and the best horror movie you’ve never seen. I was on the hunt. It wasn’t streaming anywhere in Canada and I had resigned myself to never seeing it. But then I saw an announcement on Twitter that it was being released on blu ray by Second Sight Films. So, of course, I preordere...

Hey Scaredy Cats. Welcome back to the month of camp carnage. I know, I know, no one goes to camp in January, but when you’re stuck in the frozen tundra that is Ontario in the winter, you gotta do what you gotta do. As a kid growing up in the eighties, slashers were all the rage. Some of the first horror movies I saw were eighties slashers. So, I definitely have a soft spot for them and the more ridiculous the better. When I heard t...

In 1978, one of the greatest horror movie franchises was born. Only two years later, another one would enter the world of horror, but weirdly enough, the villain that we associate with that franchise was really just another victim in the first installment. This swerve is so famous that it even became part of another horror movie franchise, when Ghostface first asked Casey Becker, who was the killer in the first Friday the 13th movi...

Hey Scaredy Cats. It’s Christmas time and we’re about to head to Kingston Falls to spend time with family, friends and furry little creatures. So, stock up on some Bathroom Buddies – they’re fantastic stocking stuffers! We’re going to make some gingerbread people, get a Christmas tree from a very young Corey Feldman and watch a late night screening of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Just a word of warning, Kingston Falls may not ...

Hey Scaredy Cats. I still remember when I found out that Santa wasn’t real. I’m going to peel back the curtain a little bit here and admit one of my embarrassing secrets. I was in grade seven, standing in line for French class. A bunch of my classmates were making fun of me for believing in Santa because generally by the age of eleven you know the truth. But not me. Whether I was just incredibly naïve or my parents were just really...

Hey Scaredy Cats!  Welcome back to the Haunted Library and our spooky countdown to Christmas. In the introduction to “Told After Supper” Jerome K Jerome writes “Christmas Eve is the ghosts' great gala night. On Christmas Eve they hold their annual fete. On Christmas Eve everybody in Ghostland who IS anybody—or rather, speaking of ghosts, one should say, I suppose, every nobody who IS any nobody—comes out to show himself or her...

Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome back to the Haunted Library and our countdown to Christmas. It’s a cold and blustery winter day here and I’m ready to hunker down with some warm blankets and my cats curled up at my feet. So, get cozy and join us as we read another spooky ghost story.

THE WEIRD VIOLIN by Anonymous

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Hey Scaredy Cats. Welcome back to the Haunted Library and our seven day countdown to Christmas. Each day we’ll be featuring a spooky ghost story that is perfect to listen to as the nights grow cold and dark. In fact, today marks the Winter Solstice, the day of the year with the fewest hours of daylight. That makes it the perfect reason to read scary stories (if you need a reason, that is!).  In an article in the Globe and Mail, Jes...

Hey Scaredy Cats. Welcome back to the Haunted Library and our seven day countdown to Christmas. Each day, we’ll be reading a spooky Christmas ghost story in the tradition of the Victorians.  In his 1891 anthology of Christmas ghost stories, titled Told After Supper, British writer Jerome K. Jerome wrote “Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about specters.” Agreed, Mr. Jerome. So, le...

Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome back to the Haunted Library for day 3 of our countdown to Christmas with spooky ghost stories. It's time to light your fireplace, grab a hot toddy, turn off the lights and curl up under your coziest blanket. Today's story is THE KIT-BAG by Algernon Blackwood. 

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Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome back to the Haunted Library. For the seven days leading up to Christmas, we will be releasing an episode daily. These episode will each feature a reading of a scary ghost story, a tradition of which I’m particularly fond. For this episode, we have Jamie Alvey reading one of my personal favourites, HOW FEAR DEPARTED FROM THE LONG GALLERY by E.F. Benson. First, we chat about some spooky Christmas traditions ...

Hey Scaredy Cats. There’s a line in the song It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year that goes “there’ll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long long ago” It may seem odd to us now, but telling spooky stories at Christmas was a tradition that saw its peak during the Victorian era in Great Britain. The most famous example is probably A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, but many writers in the late 19th...

Hey Scaredy Cats. In the mid eighties, monster movies just weren’t the trend in horror. The genre was dominated by slashers like Friday the 13th. In 1984, we had movies like Silent Night, Deadly Night, Friday the 13th: the Final Chapter (spoiler alert, it wasn’t) and probably most importantly of all, A Nightmare on Elm Street. But the horror writers and directors of the eighties would have grown up with the Hammer horror movies, so...

Hey Scaredy Cats! Welcome to the Haunted Library. I’m Sherri… (Ryan introduces himself). We’ve talked about it on so many occasions, but we are both huge fans of haunted house stories. Since it’s October and Halloween is just around the corner, we wanted to talk about one of our favourite haunted house novels. In fact, it’s a book so scary that Stephen King has described it as one of the most important horror novels of the twentiet...

Hey Scaredy Cats. Imagine you’re a young child, maybe six or seven years old. You head to your local theatre to catch a matinee all by yourself. You’re a hardened horror fan despite your young age, but what you see scares you so much that you literally pray for the sunshine to last. This movie sticks with you for decades and when you become a filmmaker, you remake it as a way of purging it from your system. That’s exactly what happ...