People have been scaring themselves silly with creepy stories for a long, long time. Some horror classics simply refuse to die, and are reanimated again and again in modern retellings. As Halloween approaches, check out a new take on an old tale. List compiled by Emily S.
Remakes and Re-Envisionings - Scary Stories Inspired by Classic Tales of Horror
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Graphic Novels Hinds
This graphic novel retells the ancient epic that has thrilled audiences through the ages. The battles between the great warrior Beowulf and the monstrous dragon Grendel are rendered in gruesome detail.
Y Hubbard
In this modern twist on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Harper is surprised by tumbling into an intense romance with Logan, a newcomer to her Enumclaw, Washington, high school, but soon Logan's sinister twin is pulling them apart.
Y Weyn
Giselle and Ingrid are the twin daughters of Doctor Victor Frankenstein, but they are very different people, and when they inherit his castle in the Orkney Islands, Giselle dreams of holding parties and inviting society--but Ingrid is fascinated by her father's forbidden experiments.
Graphic Novels Grimly
Retells, in graphic novel format, Mary Shelley's classic tale of a monster, assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies, which develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
Y Golden
Series: Hollow
When a string of grisly decapitations occur in the famed village of Sleepy Hollow, newcomers Aimee and Shane Lancaster suspect a supernatural killer.
Graphic Novels Edginto
Graphic novel adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's mystery in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel to the bleak wastes of Dartmoor, England to solve the mystery surrounding the late Sir Charles Baskerville and a ghostly hound.
Dr. Moreau's daughter, Juliet, travels to her estranged father's island, only to encounter murder, medical horrors, and a love triangle.
Y Priestl
In 1918 London, fifteen-year-old Billy, a pickpocket, meets Mr. Creecher, a monstrous giant, and their relationship swiftly turns from pure convenience to a strong bond as they journey northwards on the trail of Victor Frankenstein.
Y Creagh
Series: Nevermore Trilogy
When cheerleader Isobel Lanley is assigned to work with Varen Nethers, a goth Edgar Allen Poe fan, on an English project, she is swept into a horrific dream world that he has created in his mind.
Y Cary
Series: Bloodline
In this story told primarily through journal entries, Quincey Harker, the heir to Dracula's bloodline, returns to England in 1918 to pursue Nurse Mary Seward, whose fiancé has been transformed into a monstrous vampire.
Y Blakley
After her beautiful sister is killed by the Wolf, Valerie finds herself in the middle of a mystery that has plagued her village for generations: someone among the villagers is a murderous werewolf—but who? With the aid of her wise grandmother, Valerie sets out to discover the killer's true identity.
Y Gratz
Series: Horatio Wilkes mystery
In a contemporary story based on Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, Horatio Wilkes seeks to solve the murder of Duncan MacKae at the Scottish Highland Games in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
Presents a collection of Poe's short stories and poems, including "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Raven," accompanied by steampunk-inspired illustrations.
Y Shelley
An adaptation of Mary Shelley's celebrated gothic classic features steampunk-inspired graphic art that incorporates gadgets, fashion elements and steam-powered machinery into the tale of a science experiment gone awry.
Ten teens head to a house party at a remote island mansion off the Washington coast . . . only for them to picked off by a killer one by one.
When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.
Based on Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw," tells the story of Jamie Atkinson's summer spent as a nanny in a small Rhode Island beach town, where she begins to fear that the estate may be haunted, especially after she learns of two deaths that occurred there the previous summer.
Y Prose
A teen boy becomes the babysitter for two very peculiar children on a haunted island in this modern retelling of The Turn of the Screw.
Y Henders
Series: Alex Van Helsing
At a boarding school in Switzerland, fourteen-year-old Alex Van Helsing learns that vampires are real, that he has a natural ability to sense them, and that an agency called the Polidorium has been helping his family fight them since 1821.