We've highlighted fan art over the years and today we welcome another piece. John Rego of Boston tells about his creation: This pi...

Edward Gorey has popped up in a few places this week. First there's a play about the life of the notoriously private auteur debut...

Da Vinci's unfinished work, Saint Sebastian Dying in a Bed of Zinnias , was inspired by the effeminate Pope Ganymede V prancing around i...

...and we remember John Bellairs .

We were looking for something to post this February 29 and this article at the AV Club about Tom Lehrer surfaced this afternoon.  Perfect...

Five years ago, yes, our brains hurt a lot when we realized a full decade had passed by. We said we’d shoot for another five and, for be...

During the spring session of Vatican III an elderly American bishop got the idea that a nuclear cataclysm had occurred in Baltimore, Marylan...

Richard Egielski created 14 full page illustrations for The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring , and, in celebration of its 40th anniversary, w...

Let’s say you’re an tech-savvy, undergraduate education major and you want to contribute something new and unique to the World Wide Web thin...

We celebrate the 78th birthday of author John Bellairs. It's not a platinum anniversary (close: 70) but 78 is the atomic number of th...

The powder room for men at the nameless Catholic Montana Women's College is at the residence of this individual [ Saint Fidgeta and Othe...

We’re celebrating fifty years since the publication of Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies and a half-century of John Bellairs as the famous a...

After Johnny Dixon has a run-in with school bully Eddie Tompke, Gramma Dixon helps treat Johnny's cut finger: "As Gra...

Next time...next time it will be better. Haven’t yet found the nun who was waving that black squiggly flag. Paint the runway white and gold...

Here's your chance to vote for your favorite book in the Johnny Dixon series.