A true master of horror, Edgar Allan Poe is behind many timeless tales, but The Masque of the Red Death and Hop-Frog rank among his darkest.

In September 1942, Convoy ON 127 entered the dreaded Mid-Atlantic Gap—an exposed stretch of ocean beyond air support, where U-boats roamed freely. On the night of September 10, the convoy was ...

Science NASA stares into dark, freaky pit on Mars If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze into you. Nietzsche could have been talking about Mars.

UK government dangles £5 billion broadband bait, BT bitesTrial of new excavation technologies in 13 rural areasFirst to benefit: deepest Devon and the Highlan… ...

The Pit and the Pendulum News The New Female Thor Continues an Excellent Run of Thunder God Comics Months ago, Marvel Comics passed the mantles of some of their most popular heroes to newcomers.

Having been brought up in a mining village in the West Central coalfields, I observed the miner’s strike, which ended 30 years ago, with a mixture of grief and apprehension.

The pit was sunk in 1872, the first coal won – the verb “won” is always used in such accounts, though not without a hell of a struggle – the same year. It closed, exhausted like many of ...

From the very beginning of The Pit and The Pendulum it is obvious that a great deal of credit should go to Keith Tuttle and David Gilbrook for their mastery of lighting and sound design. Through their ...

The docent/explainer person explained: the Foucault Pendulum at the Griffith Observatory is down in a shallow pit. One day a health inspector came by and asked how the pegs got reset after they'd ...