BOOKS

They terrified Old Nan—and now we understand why.

Shirley Jackson, the famed author of 'The Lottery' and 'The Haunting of Hill House,' claimed to be a witch.

'Harry Potter and the Death Eaters' was one of a few other titles in the running.

"I seemed to have him kidnapped and killed for no good reason."

The 'A Wrinkle in Time' author, who would have turned 100 years old today, saw her most famous work get rejected 26 times.

The sequel, 'Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator,' could also be filmed for the first time.

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.