So who decides what stories are truly haunting, frightening, or creepy? The audience, of course!
Nevertheless, storytelling event producers frequently offer evenings of such stories to the public, and they count on storytellers to rate the intensity of each story they will tell. The event emcee uses the ratings to arrange a story sequence that creates an evening of ever more intense stories. In events with intermissions, stories are commonly divided into pre-intermission family friendly tales and post-intermission tales for teens and adults.
Here I’ve arranged the stories in the order I would present them if asked to create an evening of haunting tales. Because I like to send people home on a lighter note, I’ve placed “The Open Grave” last.