Country music’s style isn’t a style that aims to jar or horrify someone. However, every so often, country musicians have done just that, and they’ve done so by telling or retelling some terrifying ...

Dylan's Murder Most Foul is a haunting exploration of JFK's assassination and its impact on America. Packed with 74 song ...

Whether you're gearing up to host the ultimate monster mash bash or just to spend the evening pumpkin carving, you're probably in search of a country song Halloween playlist to create the right ...

Macabre songs about murder, specters, and other morbidities are par for the course for country music, but Leon Payne’s bone-chilling country song from the mid-1970s takes this tradition to a whole new ...

We may not today meet witches, fairies and elves round every corner, but we are only too familiar with the big themes in ...

Primer is The A.V. Club‘s ongoing series of beginners’ guides to pop culture’s most notable subjects: filmmakers, music styles, literary genres, and whatever else interests us—and hopefully you. It ...