Category: Fiction

‘Man is not truly one, but truly two’: duality in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Curator Greg Buzwell considers duality in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, exploring how the novel engages with contemporary debates about consciousness, homosexuality […]

The SciFi Story Robert H. Goddard Published 100 Years Ago

In 1904, while Robert H. Goddard was a student at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, his professor of creative writing asked his class to […]

None of Us Would Survive One Day at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Much of children’s literature creates fantastical scenarios in which the young protagonists can endure all sorts of danger that reality would never permit. It is […]

New Douglas Adams Biography to Include Unseen ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ Material

A new excerpt from a deserted draft of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy novel, along with a score of previously unseen material, will […]

The Creeping Terror Of Childhood: An interview with Richard Littler, creator of Scarfolk

  • May 27, 2014
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Scarfolk is a town stuck in a perpetual loop of the 1970s. It’s in the northwest of England, but it could be almost anywhere in […]

Harry Potter Escape from Gringotts ride at Universal: First Look – Fun News – Digital Spy

The launch of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley at Universal Studios Orlando is one step closer. The first pictures and details […]

The 19th century illustrator whose imagination fueled the work of H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft is famous for creating monsters so bizarre they are almost impossible to visualize. And yet he was inspired by many painters and visual […]