This is an educational blog about horror stories (types, history, origins..) around us and other relative media

Lately (more precisely, in the last few days), we have witnessed several stupidities, regarding conspiracy theories, which lead even to tragic endings! Man killed his children as a result of…

Friday the 13th is considered an unfortunate day of Western superstition. People are afraid that some accident or bad luck may happen to them on that day. This widespread superstition…

You probably heard a lot before about therm ghost town, a place once full of people, and now abandoned.... full of ghosts! Some places are said to be haunted, because…

You know about Halloween! But, there is another holiday similar to it in Serbia. This is a very old tradition, which is celebrated in rural parts of the country, mostly…

As we already explained here https://horrorvalley.net/scary-horror-ghost-stories-and-terms/  purpose of the horror genre (and its variations) is mainly to scare or disgust the audience. But, those stories can be actually useful. They are…

So, we are up to scary stories. Someone likes them, someone not. But what does those mean? Before explaining short terms about such type of stories lets mention first that…