9 Fascinating Facts About Flannery O’Connor
The author, who was born 100 years ago on March 25, was really into mayonnaise—and peacocks.
The author, who was born 100 years ago on March 25, was really into mayonnaise—and peacocks.
These creatures don't live in Middle-earth—but they sound like they could.
The fix-up novel, which turns 75 this year, would become one of Bradbury’s most famous books—and inspire future scientists.
Who was a model for Mary Shelley’s protagonist? Candidates include a 17th-century alchemist and Charles Darwin’s grandfather.
When Captain George Pollard Jr.’s ship was rammed by a whale, he had no idea it would help make literary history.
Where did this curious expression come from, and what’s so right about rain, anyway?
From David Lynch to Queen Elizabeth I, these folks achieved a type of lexical immortality when their names became adjectives.
In honor of Valentine’s Day, discover the origins of the phrase ‘weak at the knees,’ including its ties to ancient Rome and even astrology.
The star-crossed lovers captured in these Gothic romance books will give you a new reason to hate Valentine’s Day.
He wrote the book partially in response to European writers like Joseph Conrad, who Achebe said depicted Africa “as ‘the other world,’ the antithesis of Europe and therefore of civilization.”
Here’s everything you need to know about the Tales of Dunk and Egg, the ‘Game of Thrones’ prequel novellas that inspired HBO’s upcoming adaptation.
On New Year’s Eve, after the ball has dropped, revelers queue up “Auld Lang Syne”—that song that makes you cry, even though you don’t understand it and know almost none of the words.
Clement Clarke Moore is widely believed to be the author of “A Visit from St. Nicholas.” But the Livingston family of New York begs to differ.
Ahead of Robert Eggers’s adaptation of ‘Nosferatu,’ here’s a breakdown of the differences and similarities between the two iconic bloodsuckers.
Jólabókaflóðið, Iceland's long-running Christmas tradition, involves books, bed, and chocolate—all our favorite things.
Historical figures like Charles Dickens, Thomas Nast, Washington Irving, and even Queen Charlotte all helped create Christmas as we know it.
Here's how Stieg Larsson's modern classic came to be.
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He got the idea from a story his wife told him while they were visiting her parents: “I joked, ‘This would be good for a novel. I am going to write a novel based on this.’ ”
The tale was composed as Stoker was working on his iconic vampire.
Series like R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps introduced '90s kids to horror at a young age.
“Once upon a midnight dreary” begins “The Raven,” setting the mood for one of the most recognizable poems written in English.
As Stephen King once said, novellas are “too long to be short and too short to be really long.”
You’ll never guess what frightens these masters of horror.