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25 Spooky Books to Read This Halloween Season
Warning: You may want to keep the lights on.
BOOKS
P.G. Wodehouse's Exile from England
Accused by his countrymen of collaborating with the Nazis, the once-beloved British author fled in 1947 and never looked back.
The Internet Archive is Making 62 Obscure, Out-of-Print Books Available Online
The works are in the public domain because of a rarely used provision of U.S. copyright law.
How a Makeshift Bicycle Saved Curious George From the Nazis
The real-life tale of how the beloved children's book character came to be rivals any movie.
7 Facts About William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
Since its release in 1930, 'As I Lay Dying' has become regarded as an American classic—and a bit of an endurance test for some readers.
10 Things We Learned From Vanilla Ice's 1991 Autobiography, Ice by Ice
Attention ladies: The Iceman is willing to spring for a fancy dinner, but not at one of those places "where the menu is so fancy I don't know what I'm ordering."
15 Children's Books No One Reads Now
These 15 books were the <em>Harry Potter</em>s of their time.
5 Self-Portraits Famous Authors Doodled in Their Own Books
Kurt Vonnegut, in particular, loved to give fans a little extra artistic flourish with his signature.
12 of the Most Beautiful Cemeteries Around the World
Falling leaves, stunning statuary, and famous graves—here are a dozen picturesque international spots to rest in peace.
10 Everyday Phrases Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Made Popular
Curiouser and curiouser.
7 Things You Might Not Know About Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 novel was met with a poor critical reception. Decades later, critics finally understood what Hurston had accomplished.
6 Peak Sneak-Peek Paintings from the New Bob Ross Art Book
More than 300 of the public television celebrity's signature landscape paintings have been collected into a coffee table book.
11 Popular Quotes Commonly Misattributed to F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Write drunk, edit sober” may sound like a sage piece of advice, but it didn't come from F. Scott Fitzgerald.
10 Terrific Facts About Stephen King
In addition to being one of the world's most successful and prolific writers, Stephen King is also the toast of Hollywood with a seemingly never-ending stream of adaptations being made of his work.
How the Rise of Paperback Books Turned To Kill a Mockingbird Into a Literary Classic
If you read Harper Lee's novel in school, it wasn't entirely because of the book's stellar literary value (though it has that, too).
6 Great (and Not-So-Great) Works of Art Made by Robots
Roboticists are working hard to engineer the next Picasso.
15 Surprising Facts About Outlander
Starz’s hit historical-time-travel-romantic-drama is back for a third season.
Read a Newly Discovered Kurt Vonnegut Short Story
A previously unpublished story dating back to the 1950s was discovered recently in the author’s archives.
6 Beautiful Botanical Sketches From History
Botanical Sketchbooks, a new book by Helen and William Bynum, collects some of the best drawings of the world's flora dating back to the 15th century.
The Fact and Fiction of Jack Kerouac's On the Road
If you are so much as a leisurely fan of American fiction, you likely already know the story of how Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' came into the world, but there are many stories about the book's history that might just surprise you.
The Crazy Story Behind the First Book Published in the (Future) United States
An escape from England, an indentured servant with a mysterious past, and an untimely death while crossing the Atlantic. While these might sound like plot points for the latest historical spy thriller, they’re actually real events related to <em>The Bay P
10 Facts About Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man'
The 1952 novel about race and bigotry took seven years to finish.