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The darkness of the night sky seems so obvious as to need no explanation – yet it has intrigued and baffled scientists for centuries.
When Teya and Salena take to the Eurovision stage next week, their song may be new, but their story of ghostly authorship and spirit possession comes straight from Poe’s work.
Is the writer’s appeal less about the power and complexity of his prose, and more about the view of him as a perennial underdog?
The impressionistic tale of a young Edgar Allan Poe may not be based in fact, but it captures the essence of the young writer.
All 50 states have laws that ban potentially intimidating behavior at polling places. They will need enforcement during the 2022 midterm elections.
No other living horror writer has enjoyed Stephen King’s literary longevity. His monsters have lingered in the popular imagination, and that of our author.
Whether they are set in a country house or on the mean streets, detective novels tell us so much about human nature.
The famous American gothic author’s death has long remained a mystery – but new research sheds some light on the ‘suicide hypothesis’.
If only DNA samples and microfibres made crimes as easy to solve as on CSI.
America’s answer to Kafka and Dostoevsky gets real at the Edinburgh International Festival.
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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