AKRON, Ohio — If you’re of a certain age, you can remember a time before streaming, before YouTube, even before the now-defunct Netflix queue — the video rental store. You had your local Blockbuster, ...

You might do a double-take at some of these prices.

Kiko Bailey, owner of Slasher World, with an old-school lunch box and a bust of the Crypt Keeper. (Solomon O. Smith / For The Times) Hundreds of VHS tapes are meticulously arranged and displayed.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - At first glance, Alive Again looks like any other business in Grand Rapids’ Creston neighborhood. But through the shop door marked ‘Entrance to mortuary,’ customers are pulled into ...