Up for grabs at ebay this week are two pieces of original Edward Gorey art. First, two interior illustrations from The Trolley to Yesterda...

Elizabeth Tamny writes in the Chicago Reader of the formative years of Edward Gorey :

November, 1985 - A tip of the hat (so it can suck your scalp dry) to Brother Tentacles! Twenty years ago this November we learned just how ...

Barnes and Noble have published a new hardcover anthology of the first three Johnny Dixon novels.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas: five of Marshall, Michigan’s historic homes will open their doors to visitors during the upcomi...

After watching the horror film  The Evil Dead  (1981) on someone's movie channel we went online to the  trivia section at IMDb  and foun...

On the dust jacket of the original Harcourt Brace Jovanovich edition of The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn you’ll find this interesting bit...

Is there such a thing as an Art Kassul Fan Club?

September, 30 1955 : Back to college we go as television and music star Eddie Fisher drops in on the student body at Notre Dame, broadcasti...

Author Helen Cresswell died Sept. 26 of cancer at her home in England. Cresswell is best remembered for his books staring Lizzie Dripping,...

Digging through the trenches recently we stumbled upon an online record store where one could purchase a slew of unfamiliar albums from almo...

Fifty years ago this fall John Bellairs began life as a college undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame . While there are the usual n...

That's the question we were once asked and we didn't have a good answer. Why are the Lewis Barnavelt books sometimes referred to ...

Fifty years ago this fall, Bellairs began his Freshman year (1955-56) on the University of Notre Dame campus. During this initial year, he ...

by Leah Adams (July 29, 2005) ( Originally published at LiveJournal ) Wednesday, I got to fulfill one of my lifelong childhood dreams. T...