If you were a Nickelodeon kid growing up in the 1990s, your gateway to horror was Are You Afraid of the Dark? The anthology show, which featured spooky tales told in classic campfire style by the ...

Swapping your logs for a cleaner alternative means you can still have all the cozy vibes without the coughs, the carcinogens, ...

King has nursed a grudge against Stanley Kubrick’s film for decades. In 1980, he explained to David Letterman why it left him so cold.

Given that the town meeting took place the day before Halloween, at least one of the suggested names thrown into the mix was “Pumpkinville.” Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending how you feel about ...

It’s probably not shocking that Pride and Prejudice is the most-searched book by the 18th-century author. The ...

On Monday, May 31, in Schenectady, New York, a cat named Bae was finally rescued after spending a week or longer stuck in a park tree. According to Newsweek, part of the reason it took so long to ...

From tragic factory fires to toxic food scandals, some safety laws we may take for granted today actually have some pretty ...

KPop Demon Hunters made the biggest impression on the general public. Many characters from the movie—Rumi, Zoey, Mira, Jinu, ...

But, of course, spiders lose control of their bodies when they’re dying or are already dead. The lack of hemolymph pressure ...

In 1991, the World Wide Web became open to the public and ushered in a new era of Internet use. In its earlier iterations, the Internet was text-based and boringly simple. It certainly did not feature ...

Exercising on a treadmill often feels like torture, and that’s not exactly a coincidence. In 1818, an English civil engineer named Sir William Cubitt devised a machine called the “tread-wheel” to ...

For decades, horror movie fans have been arguing about one of the genre’s most famous—and chilling—sound effects.