The first story that ever really scared me was "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs. In it, an old woman uses a magic talisman in the form of a mummified monkey's paw to wish her dead son alive again. The horror arrives in the form of a knock at the door, her son, returned from the grave.

I read "The Monkey's Paw" in school, junior high school I think. I suppose it was ...

We’ve certainly come a long way since Blaise Pascal invented the calculator in the 17th century. Newton discovered that apples and anvils descend upon toads at the same speed. Franklin incinerated an unnamed assistant ...

Fantasy lovers are a strange breed. Not too many people seem to spend their free time looking at the newest J.R.R. Tolkien calender or studying The Art of the Brothers Hildebrandt. But there are more of us out there than we would let on. ...

There's a R in the month, so I can talk about oysters. All authors, especially authors of speculative fiction, are asked, "Where do you get your ideas?" ...

Any fanatic of J.R.R. Tolkien knows that he was a Roman Catholic, but the question has been raised about how this was portrayed, if ever, in his fantasy epic.

An initial glance at "Fellowship of the Rings" indicates that the world of Middle-Earth is polytheistic ...