So when a traveler died, the family would hire people who knew the strange art of walking a stiff body ... has been the subject of scary stories that have been told and retold since the 1950s.

Each year as Halloween approaches, I grow nostalgic for the spooky anthologies that first introduced me to “scary stories.” I recall, with particular fondness, “Haunted Houseful ...

So when a traveler died, the family would hire people who knew the strange art of walking a stiff body home ... has been the subject of scary stories that have been told and retold since the 1950s.