The asylum has always been a setting for a variety of fictional horrors because the reality of these institutions was bleak and controversial when states and voluntary associations began to establish ...

Steve Roberts isn’t sure he believes in ghosts. But without them, he can’t really explain what happened several months ago at Pennsylvania’s infamous Pennhurst Asylum. In May, he joined a group of ...

Two films in theaters now are frightening audiences just in time for Halloween. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and It: Chapter Two both have all the elements needed to jolt us out of our seats.

Introduction -- What can't be cured must be endured -- Biological psychiatry and the "happy drone" -- Communities, selfhood, and "loney crowds" -- From possessive to expressive individualism -- ...