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‘The Gashlycrumb Tinies’ author was born 100 years ago on February 22—here’s what you need to know about him, from what classic book he found boring to how much he really helped with PBS’s show ‘Mystery!’

You never forget your first real heartbreak.

The star-crossed lovers captured in these Gothic romance books will give you a new reason to hate Valentine’s Day.

He wrote the book partially in response to European writers like Joseph Conrad, who Achebe said depicted Africa “as ‘the other world,’ the antithesis of Europe and therefore of civilization.”

The cover of Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs. Dalloway.’

The novel, which turns 100 this year, was so successful that it allowed Woolf to put in a bathroom she called “Mrs. Dalloway’s closet.”

Peter Weir’s Australian New Wave classic turns 50 this year. Here’s what you need to know about the film, from the off-limits question Weir asked book author Joan Lindsay to the spooky stuff that happened on set.

LEGO’s Cullen house set offers a 2001-piece tribute to Twilight.

These are the blocks of a killer, Bella.

The “willy nilly silly old bear” was based on a real-life bear cub.

Popeye will soon be at the mercy of low-budget filmmakers.

The 95-year limit on copyright is about to expire on some classic movies, books, and one cartoon sailor.

How do these two famous vampires compare?

Ahead of Robert Eggers’s adaptation of ‘Nosferatu,’ here’s a breakdown of the differences and similarities between the two iconic bloodsuckers.

These gifts made a huge impact.

Y2K led to a lot of hypothetical scenarios involving mass panic, failing banks, and eating squirrels.

Buy a water bed—you might need to drink it.

In Iceland, Christmas Eve is one for the books.

Jólabókaflóðið, Iceland's long-running Christmas tradition, involves books, bed, and chocolate—all our favorite things.

Fifty years is a long time to keep a library book.

The Warren Public Library waived late fees for a Chicago man who check out a baseball book 50 years ago.

Here’s how Jesmyn Ward’s award-winning novel about Hurricane Katrina came to be.

‘Searching for Franklin,’ ‘The Indifferent Stars Above,’ and ‘Cannibalism.’

You might want to skip dinner after reading these.

Turns out the monikers of romance books and cosmetics can sound eerily similar.

Here's how Stieg Larsson's modern classic came to be.

See if you can spot the laudable lexicography of these famous writers.

A whole lot of foreshadowing in these pages.

How many have you come across?

The UK Quad Advance poster of Terence Young‘s Bond film “From Russia with Love.”

Propstore is auctioning off tons of James Bond items, including hand-made posters and props.

He got the idea from a story his wife told him while they were visiting her parents: “I joked, ‘This would be good for a novel. I am going to write a novel based on this.’ ”