It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Andre Ovredal's "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" has brought the short stories from Alvin Schwartz's nightmarish children's books to life.

Since summer is the season for telling hair-raising “kaidan” horror stories, let me give you one. During the Meiji Era (1868-1912), newspapers sometimes ran reports of mysteries, complete with ...