April Snellings

Joined: Mar 2, 2021

April Snellings has somehow built a career out of her passion for spooky pop culture. (Her obsession with The Facts of Life has thus far been less productive, but she remains hopeful.) She lives in Tennessee with her wife, their daughter, several recalcitrant dogs and cats, and a 7-foot-animatronic werewolf named C. Thomas Howl.

Robin Stille in 'The Slumber Party Massacre' (1982).

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A self-portrait of Junji Ito with a cat.

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While most of the conspiracy theories surrounding the organization are, to put it mildly, bizarre, you don’t have to venture to the fringe to find fascinating, sometimes-strange stories about Freemasons. Here's what you should know.

Nashville's Lower Broadway is known as the Honky-tonk Highway.

15 Nashville Slang Terms You Should Know

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Forty-five years after it was published, here are nine things to know about Jay Anson’s zeitgeist-shaping bestseller, The Amityville Horror.

8 (Supposedly) Cursed Books

From a diabolical Bible to a mournful Japanese war poem, here are eight texts that have been blamed for madness, misfortune, and death.

8 Facts About Patricia Highsmith's 'The Price of Salt'

When The Price of Salt was first published, it gave LGBTQ+ readers something they had never encountered before: a novel that didn’t punish its main characters for being gay and allowed them at least the possibility of a Happily Ever After.

Liliʻuokalani, the last monarch of Hawaii.

9 Facts About Liliʻuokalani, the Last Queen of Hawaii

From her unusual namesake to her indelible contributions to pop culture, here are nine things you might not know about Liliʻuokalani, Hawaii’s only sovereign queen.

Painting of Lewis, Clark, and Sacagawea.

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Fourteen years before 'Titanic' sank, a novella featuring an eerily similar disaster was published.

The Novel That (Seemingly) Predicted the 'Titanic' Disaster

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8 Things You Should Know About Ray Bradbury's 'Something Wicked This Way Comes'

From its kernel of inspiration in a bizarre childhood memory to Gene Kelly’s failed attempt to turn it into a movie before Bradbury turned it into a novel, here are eight things you might not know about 'Something Wicked This Way Comes.'

Rita Mae Brown at the Lambda Literary Awards in New York City in 2015.

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Rita Mae Brown wasn’t even 30 when her debut novel, 'Rubyfruit Jungle,' was published, but she had already made her mark in the realm of feminist and LGBTQ activism. Here’s what you should know.

The Strange Literary Puzzle Only Four People Have Ever Solved

If you spend time scrolling TikTok, you've probably come across videos about the 1934 book 'Cain's Jawbone,' literary puzzle so difficult only four people have ever figured it out.

The magician P. T. Selbit performing a sawing a woman in half trick.

The Magician and the Suffragette: The Strange History of Sawing a Woman in Half

The magic trick of sawing a woman in half was first performed a century ago by P.T. Selbit, a British magician.