Submitted by MSMJFANFOREVER, a lifelike creation of plastic and springs and painted smile.

Talky Tina appeared in the season 5 The Twilight Zone episode “Living Doll.” Talky Tina is a nasty little doll with murder on her mind. I don’t know what it is about dolls that makes them so terrifying. I suppose it could be the fact that they are humanlike but not human. Or maybe it’s just their perpetually cheerful faces. Either way, dolls have been a horror movie staple ever since. In my book, Talky Tina goes down as the creepiest of the creepy dolls, even beating out more ostentatious monsters like Chucky (and also The Bride of Chucky).

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was an Epic Win for turning any seemingly harmless brook, bridge, or foggy night into a spooky, impassable path. It inspired fear in so many of us as youth. One of our writers (at the time, a grown man) often recounts not being able to stay in the theater anytime the trailer for the ‘99 version of Sleep Hollow starring Johnny Depp came on.
It’s amazing that a story almost 190 years old can still inspire so much fear.

Submitted by Priscilla O

We’d forgotten all about the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series until we saw the above photograph. Stephen Gammell’s illustrations brought all of the terror flooding back into our memories. If you were lucky enough to check this one out of your school library (since it was always checked out) or your parents ordered it for you through the Scholastic Books program, you probably had the wits scared out of you more than once while reading it.
Not until we started researching did we find out that Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was the most contested book between 1990-2000 because of it’s sometimes graphic descriptions of violence. We’re glad the old fuddy-duddy’s who tried to have this book removed from our libraries didn’t succeed, because our literary experiences growing up would have been far less rounded without this great collection.

Castlevania was an epic NES game that shaped the future of gameplay and spawned a great series of games. Werewolves and vampires were a staple of pop-culture in the 80’s and early 90’s and this game complimented that time very well.

These days just about every city has a good haunted house around Halloween, but back in our day, the only good haunted mansion to be found was at Disneyland or Disney World and could be visited year round. It used to scare the wits out of us too, after our older siblings or cousins were done filling our heads with stories about real corpses being in the mansion and things like that.