My wife and kids have a tough time believing that I fear nothing supernatural. They fear all of them. When they tell me that this is strange, considering I'm the only one of us who goes to mass every Sunday and literally eats the body and blood of a man who came back from the dead, I distract them by showing them my latest Day-Glo Virgin Mary statue which plays Ave Maria. My youngest teen, Sharkie, gives me a list of her scariest games ever. Apparently one of them is bound to give me nightmares.

While nothing is stopping you from playing horror games at any time during the year, there's something extra special about scaring the pants off yourself during the month of October. Horror games are an equally fun alternative to cramming into an amusement park horror maze, and for the cost of a ticket, you can buy several games that provide many more hours of scares. Whether you like slashers, ghosts, psychological horror, or anything in between, these video games are sure to get you in the Halloween spirit. Alien: Isolation is the ultimate horror video game for the season. Set 15 years after the events of the first Alien film (1979), you assume the role of Amanda Ripley, the daughter of Ellen Ripley, and quickly find yourself exploring an abandoned space station.

Little Nightmares is a side-scrolling adventure platformer that takes place in a 3D space. You take control of Six, a tiny, yellow raincoat-clad protagonist with an uncertain background as you attempt to escape a series of dire and dingy rooms and head towards the tantalizing bright lights of freedom. It oozes unique style, but also seems strangely familiar at the same time... The real draw of Little Nightmares is undoubtedly its art. The levels feel like a Tim Burton-esque diorama, and drip with bleak imagery, doing a superb job of crafting a terrible, depressing world.