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.

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

15 Nashville Slang Terms You Should Know

9 Fascinating Facts About Jay Anson's 'The Amityville Horror'

8 (Supposedly) Cursed Books

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

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.

9 Facts About Sacagawea

If you know anything at all about Sacagawea, you probably know she was a guide on the Lewis and Clark Expedition (also known as the Corps of Discovery) to explo

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

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

It’s a scene of visceral horror that probably sounds familiar to nearly every contemporary reader: On an April night, a majestic ocean liner plows through the N

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.

7 Fascinating Facts About Rita Mae Brown

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.

7 Fantastic Facts About Terry Pratchett

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Terry Pratchett’s first novel, here are some things you might not know about the architect of Discworld.

Catherine Mary Stewart and Kelli Maroney star in Night of the Comet (1984).

The 25 Greatest Zombie Movies of All Time

Over the past near-90 years, zombies have given form to our fears of other cultures, loss of agency, communism, atomic warfare, race relations, capitalism, mass contagions, the space race, and, most importantly, our bone-deep fear of one another.

An 18th-century painting of an exorcism.

6 Chilling Historical Exorcisms

Exorcism has a fascinating, unsettling history, and it’s left an indelible mark on pop culture thanks to films like 1973's 'The Exorcist.' Here are six historical exorcisms that are every bit as chilling as anything Hollywood can produce.

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The Strange History of the Worst Sentence in English Literature

"It was a dark and stormy night" has become so ingrained in our literary culture that we rarely give much thought to its origins.

An illustration of members of the Molly Maguires, a secret society that planned assassinations and destructions of property for higher wages.

9 Mysterious Secret Societies From Around the World

Some of history's most infamous secret societies have planned revolutions and assassinations—others, are happy enough just to hang around college campuses.