Hollywood loves a remake, and the latest reimagining of a classic comes out this week, with the release of Gil Kenan’s Poltergeist, about a family whose suburban home is haunted by evil spirits that ...

A book about Poltergeist, the 1982 haunted house movie to end all haunted house movies, could take as many shapes as its titular spectral force. A haunted clown, a possessed tree—an academic ...

THE HAUNTED PALACE, A LIFE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE (408 pp).—Frances Winwar—Harper ($6). When a West Point court-martial decided that Plebe Edgar Allan Poe was not officer material, it rendered a sound ...

I remember so much about closets. The one in my childhood bedroom—cavernous, endless—was a portal. A home to toys, clothes, items stuffed into corners to fool Mom’s eye. It was also a source of ...

Going to pop culture conventions gives Oliver Robins – the former child star best known for playing Robbie Freeling in 1982’s “Poltergeist” and 1986’s “Poltergeist II: The Other Side” – insight into ...

Now is the winter of our list content, with Top 10s and Best-ofs declaring the most notable works of the year published between January and October. But I’m here to share a few fascinating releases ...