Before the Season Begins, Thirteen Frights for the Screening Room

October on the island is quiet enough that the screening room earns its keep, and Vanity Fair has assembled a list of thirteen horror films available to stream right now, chosen with firm opinions about which ones genuinely unsettle. The pitch is that these are the pictures suited to the month itself, not a catalog of everything with a ghost in it. For a North End house still a few weeks from its first dinner of the season, that is an evening solved.

With reporting from Vanity Fair.