by Staff
design by Ethan O'Brien

We've all been scared by movies and books. How could we forget The Shining, Psycho, or The Exorcist? Many of you have doubtlessly jumped or even cried out in fright during the more harrowing scenes in any of those, and other, horror movies. And there is little question that reading some of Stephen King's best work at night will turn you into an insomniac. Of course it's a given that those artists who weave captivating and frightening stories with moving pictures or words can scare us, but how about computer games? That's a little harder to accomplish. After all, we're staring at a relatively small 15-inch screen, 17 if you're lucky, with sound piped through some pretty tinny speakers. But lately, thanks to masterful level design, dialogue, more realistic graphics, or any combination of these and other factors, some people are actually getting scared when they play games.

There are few truly scary games out of the hundreds that we've played over the last ten to 15 years, but there are indeed a few games that might make your skin crawl or make you jump right out of your seat. With Halloween here, the ghosts and ghouls are out to play, and we at GameSpot thought they might like to try their hand at this newfangled invention called the computer game. But how do you entice a Halloween spirit into electronic entertainment? With the scariest games of course, or at least those creepy games that do a good enough job with a horror theme to warrant inclusion in our Best Games for Halloween.

Show me the Creepy Games!