Ghosts (supernatural entities)

'Twilight's' Stephenie Meyer developing 'Anna Dressed in Blood'

2013-01-19 10:23:00

PARK CITY, Utah -- Now that the "Twilight" franchise is behind her, Stephenie Meyer, the woman who created the vampire world of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, is upping her efforts in a different department: movie producing. And Meyer has a juicy new...

‘Mama’ director on ghosts, Chastain, creative godfather Del Toro

2013-01-17 16:34:07

Holiday gift guide 2012: ‘Hobbit,’ ‘Star Wars,’ superheroes, more

2012-11-22 05:03:09

Merry Christmas from Charles Dickens

2012-12-25 10:31:00

Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley and the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future: they first appeared in 1843. That was when Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" was first published; in the century and a half since, it's never gone out of print and...

Da Chen on his new novel, 'My Last Empress.' He's in L.A. Thursday

2012-12-05 15:15:00

Da Chen hit bestseller lists in 1999 with his first book, the memoir "Colors of the Mountain." That, and its sequel, "Sounds of the River," told of the hardships he experienced while growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution. Chen had moved...

‘Walking Dead’ to fashion horrors: Sina Grace’s ‘leap of faith’

2012-08-23 11:32:15

You can live in Disney's Haunted Mansion for $873,000

2012-10-03 15:32:00

A 10,000-square-foot replica of the Disneyland Haunted Mansion attraction minus the 999 ghosts will go up for auction Wednesday on eBay for $873,000 or the next highest bid. Photos: A virtual tour of the Haunted Mansion replica home The ghostly...

Top 13 Halloween mazes at theme parks around the world

2012-09-29 08:00:00

As we slip into October, I decided to assemble my first-ever Fantasy Halloween League of the Top 13 haunted mazes at theme parks around the world. Think of the Top 13 list as a nightmare fantastic park with the most demented, disturbing and disgusting...

'ParaNorman,' 'The Awakening' put ghost images on movie screens

2012-08-15 18:00:00

Halloween is still more than two months away, but ghosts are filling up movie theaters like it's already October. "ParaNorman,"a stop-motion animated film about a boy who talks to ghosts and zombies, and "The Awakening," a period tale of a grieving young...

The Writing Life: Sandi Tan switches genres for 'The Black Isle'

2012-08-05 00:00:00

Sandi Tan's past is teeming with ghosts. The Pasadena-based filmmaker-turned-novelist isn't a "seer" herself — she's a self-described scaredy-cat and doesn't particularly enjoy supernatural books and movies — but her childhood in Singapore...

Review: Mark Twain's short stories stand the test of time

2012-06-10 00:00:00

The Complete Short Stories Mark Twain Introduction by Adam Gopnik Everyman's Library: 716 pp., $28 Mark Twain was on the lecture circuit for over three decades. He would take the stage feigning bemusement at discovering his audience and stand silently...

100 cool places in Arizona

2012-02-12 00:00:00

Western Arizona Oatman. If it was good enough for Clark Gable and Carole Lombard on their honeymoon, Oatman should be good enough for you, although it's been 73 years since the Hollywood couple spent their honeymoon night in the allegedly haunted...

Clara and the Doctor arrive at Caliburn House, a haunted mansion sat alone on a desolate moor. Within its walls, a ghost hunting Professor and a gifted psychic are searching for the Witch of the Well. Her apparition appears throughout the history of the building, but is she really a ghost?

2013-03-17 21:12:00

but this house is haunted. It's haunted in the hallway here. I think ghosts are not this energy that's something that can affect you. I just feel like, it's almost like a tape loop that just keeps going, and it hasn't been interrupted.

2012-12-28 00:00:00

: Anna, played by Jennifer Ehle, is the ghost of a woman who was recently killed in a car accident. Anna ran a free clinic in her lifetime. In death, she retains her good heart and desire to help poor people. Boo who?

2012-10-25 15:21:00