BOOKS

The "Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary" is the first work of its kind to be published in nearly 50 years.

Scholars believe Stoker’s intense, sensual Count Dracula was partly inspired by his relationship with actor Henry Irving.

Read the best of horror writers like Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, and more this Halloween.

Because everyone's felt the impulse to run into the closet, shut the door, and shriek out the tension.

Hogwarts letter got lost in the mail? Don't worry: You can still experience Halloween the Harry Potter way by visiting one of these events.

An American hasn’t won the world’s most prestigious writing prize since 1993.

How perfectly British.

Fairy tales often have their fair share of macabre scenes and plot points that get sanitized when adapted for stage and screen.

A retired Civil War general's assertions about the color blue led to what was known as the "Blue-glass craze."

T.S. Eliot is best known for writing "The Waste Land," but the Nobel Prize winner was also a prankster who coined a perennially popular curse word and created the characters brought to life in the Broadway musical "Cats."

This tiny Scottish town is every bibliophile's dream.

Let this list serve as a fall book club guide.