It’s that time of year again. TV networks and streaming services roll out their libraries of horror movies to throw a “Friday Night Frights” or “Nights of Horror” thing at you.

Should you want to try something different – or perhaps you don’t have enough time for a full-length movie – there are plenty of short (typically less than 30 minutes) horror films out there online.

ALTER and CryptTV are YouTube channels devoted exclusively to horror. Short of the Week and Omeleto are for general short films, but they both have a category for horror.

DUST is a channel for science fiction shorts, but since the two genres frequently overlap, they’ll occasionally drift into horror. For example, here’s “Laboratory Conditions” by Jocelyn Stamat (and starring Marisa Tomei and Minnie Driver):

Since one can easily get tired of blood, gore, and ghosts, it’s nice to find a horror-comedy every now and then. Like Dylan Chase’s “A Night in Camp Heebie-Jeebie”:

And sometimes you’ll come across something that on the face of it looks like a typical horror tale because the elements are all there, but it quickly goes somewhere completely different. To wit, “Summon a Fiend” by Eleanor Cho…..

Pleasant dreams!!!