Forget football and cheese. Maybe it should be famous for its shaggy werewolves and shape-shifting schoolteachers! The...
Day: October 31, 2019
“It is our Torajan culture. It is what we do.” By Tommy Trenchard and Aurélie Marrier d’Unienville...
Some of the more famous and memorable cities of the dead. Originally published by ESRI, republished with...
One of the most popular tourist destinations in Paris—the Catacombs—was started as a solution to the intrusion...
Today the Paris Catacombs are illuminated by electric lights and friendly guides. But when Félix Nadar descended...
The 1918-1919 flu claimed millions of lives worldwide. Could it also have given birth to the viral...
Examining what made these cheap, sensational, highly illustrated stories so popular with the Victorian public. By Judith...
They needed others to see them, to draw people to their grief. Reader, he died. I’ve devoted...
Before conjuring Dracula, Bram Stoker poured his soul out to America’s poet. Introduction Ever since Bram Stoker...
A Christmas Carol isn’t the only spine-chilling Christmas ghost story from the pen of Charles Dickens. Introduction...
Young Goodman Brown is one of the scariest stories in American literature. Halloween is a great time...
The Shelleys, Byron, Polidori, and the birth of a timeless tale. The story of how Frankenstein was...