With Halloween right around the corner, it's time to bust out the pumpkins, fill the candy with razor blades, and read a thousand different "scariest games of all time" lists on the internets. But ours is different, promise! Here, among CraveOnline's "20 Scariest Games of All Time" list you'll find a scare-tastic mix of the conventional and the not-so-conventional. But we don't want to ruin the surprise. Instead, let Joey Esposito, and myself, Erik Norris, guide you through the horrors that await.

::Presses play on the "spooky sounds" tape::

If you dareeeeeeeee. 

20. Hugo's House of Horrors

Admittedly, I spent more time typing in innapropriate commands for Hugo to perform ("do it with Penelope"....I'm sorry, I do not understand!) than I did actually playing most of the game, but what I did play was quite spooky. There were three iterations, the original Hugo's House of Horrors, and the sequels Whodunnit? and Jungle of Doom. As you can probably imagine, Jungle of Doom was full of frightening creatures like bengal tigers and snakes, and that stupid bitch Penelope was in trouble yet again. Come to think of it, one of the scariest parts of this game is how god damn stupid Hugo's girlfriend is, and how moronic the man would have to be to continue seeing her.

Then again, if he doesn't understand the command "do it with Penelope", what can I really expect?

19. Fester's Quest

Uncle Fester alone is one of the creepiest things to hit video games since Michael Jackson, but throw in god-awful gameplay mechanics and endlessly respawning enemies, and you've got one of the most intensely frightening experients on the NES. And because it's so damn hard, I've never gotten very far. Uncle Fester, aliens, and the fact that the town's biggest hope is for Uncle Fester (Fester the molestor...anyone?) to save them from an alien invasion makes this a game that can give you nightmares until the day you die. Or get molested by Uncle Fester, either/or.