

Jake Rossen
Joined: May 6, 2013
Jake Rossen is a senior staff writer for Mental Floss.




Design firms turn acres of grain corn into pop culture art you can get lost in.
King has nursed a grudge against Stanley Kubrick’s film for decades. In 1980, he explained to David Letterman why it left him so cold.
King’s sophomore novel left out a scene deemed too horrific to leave in.
The original’s July 1982 release date was selected just to mess with an ex-employee.
Shag was once synonymous with ’70s cool. Now we loathe it. How did that happen?
The origin of the multipurpose saw's catchy name, explained.
A live Halloween special in 1987 had viewers convinced that a magic trick had just gone very wrong.
It seems like virtually everything Stephen King has ever written has made it to the screen. As these seven books prove, that's not quite true.
The popular baseball idiom for a rough estimate has been around for decades. But who coined it?
The first dramatization of the ‘Titanic’ wreck featured a survivor playing a fictionalized version of herself and a love interest named Jack.
All that bird poop is doing a lot more damage to your car than you think.
The Master of Horror’s list of his top films is surprisingly horror-lite.