Among the horrific yarns chronicled in Stephen King‘s 1980 short story collection Skeleton Crew is The Monkey. A take on the classic horror staple of toys going very wrong, this tale’s proven to be a ...

The art style and dark humor helped make old cartoons like The Tell-Tale Heart seem as scary as any horror film.

Between the Freakybuttrue Peculiarium in Nob Hill and Stark’s Vacuum Museum in the Central Eastside to the prop and costume ...

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January can often get a bad wrap, but like… that was a categorically awful January 2025, was it not? And while we can’t sit here and promise February will get any better, at least there’s a ...

Younger collectors who never heard radio drama before often consider this as one of the key plays that lured them into the classic radio hobby. The story was written by George Toudouze in his native ...

If you think about the great poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann, some of it requires a skeleton key and some is startlingly direct. “I love that juxtaposition of minimalism and maximalism, because I ...

Riad Sattouf’s saga of his parents’ failed bicultural marriage, with its harsh depiction of life in rural Syria, has become a literary sensation. By Richard Fausset Richard Fausset reported ...

To the extent the “average person” was aware of the work of David Lynch, the visionary surrealist director who died on Jan. 15 at the age of 78 after a bout with emphysema, they might have ...