These stories need no contrivances to create places that are lonely and old, a place where bad things are kept hushed up instead of dealt with.

Clichés are viewed as a sign of lazy writing, but they didn’t develop that reputation over night.

The history of pizza is a large pie—half Margherita and half lies. Let’s take a bite out of pizza’s past, covering styles from Neapolitan and New York to Sicilian and St. Louis and beyond.

‘The Vampyre’ is largely forgotten today, but it upended centuries of vampiric lore 80 years before Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’—and from its spooky beginnings to its scandalous misattribution, its history was as dramatic as fiction.

These daring dames ventured into the underworld of contraband liquor.

Here’s what a typical American household ate for dinner during the 20th century.

9. Dogs have a sweet tooth, but cats don't.

Ideas for your next road trip!

Russian dressing and Thousand Island dressing are two creamy sauces that are often confused for one another. So what’s the story?

Learn about Henry James’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’—the classic ghost story that inspired (among many other things) Netflix’s ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor.’

'Sesame Street' has a long history of teaching kids how to deal with traumatic events. In the wake of 9/11, the show's creators wanted to find a way to bring the real-world horror to their young audience's attention.

We don’t know how these Victorian slang terms ever fell out of fashion, but we propose bringing them back, as soon as possible.