BOOKS

Dickens believed humans could spontaneously combust—and he had Cornelia di Bandi's death as proof.

The Standing Rock Portraits is the first book of turn-of-the-century photographer Frank Bennett Fiske's photos ever released.

A few of them are now taught in high school English classes.

Nobody's perfect.

Many of our most beloved and successful movies are adaptations of similarly beloved books. But just because a book reads well doesn’t mean it will film well.

If one of the joys of being a horror fan in the 1980s was being seduced by the shocking and lurid come-ons in the newspaper advertisements for these movies, one of the downers was going to the theater and not getting all those ads promised.

Brian De Palma’s telekinetic teen flick was Stephen King’s first big screen adaptation—and the author was paid $2500 for the rights.

3. Before he was melting hearts as Ross Poldark, Aidan Turner spent a decade competing in ballroom dancing competitions.

"The eight corpses swung in their chains, a fetid, blackened, hideous, and indistinguishable mass."

Her identity was a mystery for decades.

New research confirms that people who grow up with books at home tend to have higher reading comprehension and better mathematical and digital communication skills.

You would never know from his books that Goosebumps and Fear Street author R.L. Stine used to write joke books for kids under the name Jovial Bob Stine