LONGFORM

The story of the OED’s most prolific contributor, a sex-addicted murderer who lived in an insane asylum.

The creator of Sherlock Holmes believed in ghosts so strongly he opened a bookstore devoted to educating the general public about them.

In 2004, Johnson set out to direct a coming-of-age tale sparked by seeing an early cut of 'Star Wars.' It took nearly 20 years to see it through.

Released five years after his sudden death, Bruce Lee's 'Game of Death' used everything from camera tricks to cardboard cutouts to resurrect a legend.

For more than 30 years, 'SNL' cast members have regularly cited Steven Seagal as the worst host the show has ever had—an ignoble distinction for a program that's been on the air for half a century.

The fetchers of feces known as night soil men tackled a dangerous, thankless job—all in an attempt to keep Victorians unburdened by their ever-growing piles of poop.

In 1992, the mainstream media was eager to learn about the lexicon of the surging grunge scene. So a New York Times reporter phoned up an insider—who proceeded to make up a bunch of words.

In the '80s, the destruction of two walls changed the course of human events. One was the Berlin Wall, which came down on November 9, 1989. The other was the wall separating Aerosmith from Run-DMC in the 1986 music video for "Walk This Way."

In 1990, two movies based on the life of mobster Henry Hill hit theaters. 'Goodfellas' had Martin Scorsese. 'My Blue Heaven' had Steve Martin.

The original recipes for Watergate salad appeared during the Watergate scandal. But who named it?

Kate Bush’s 1985 synth-pop classic “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” is running up the charts decades after its release—and not for the first time.

Major William Martin was a Roman Catholic Welshman who enjoyed the theater and loved his fiancée, Pam. He also didn’t exist—but the Nazis didn’t know that.