LITERATURE

From famous authors to a Roman emperor, these spirits sure had a lot to share.

The Dollar Baby contract is Stephen King’s way of helping film students adapt his stories without financial barriers.

Here are the nuts and bolts about Mary Shelley's 200-year-old tale about what can go wrong when people play God.

These stories need no contrivances to create places that are lonely and old, a place where bad things are kept hushed up instead of dealt with.

‘The Vampyre’ is largely forgotten today, but it upended centuries of vampiric lore 80 years before Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’—and from its spooky beginnings to its scandalous misattribution, its history was as dramatic as fiction.

Shirley Jackson's classic novel ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ was inspired by real-life paranormal investigators—and so scary her husband was afraid to read it.

‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ was the Harry Potter of its day: There was merchandising, a Broadway musical, a silent film, and a whopping 13 sequels.

These offenses include everything from historical forgeries to audacious heists to cold-blooded murder—all with a bookish twist.

'My Brilliant Friend' kicked of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan series and inspired an HBO adaptation.

The author of ‘East of Eden’ and ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ was also a three-time Academy Award nominee and found an enemy in J. Edgar Hoover.

These 20 bands each took their names from the pages of classic works of literature by the likes of C.S. Lewis, William S. Burroughs, Charles Dickens, and beyond.

Although we’re probably still a long way off from the sentient forms of AI that are depicted in film and literature, we can turn to fiction to probe the questions raised by these technological advancements.