The Incident at Galley House turns a creepy text adventure game into a full-blown murder mystery that will stick in your ...

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Literary magazine will no longer engage in ‘external publishing partnerships’ after Commonwealth prize furore The prominent literary magazine Granta will no longer publish the winning entries of the ...

Jamir Nazir’s The Serpent in the Grove, which critics allege has ‘obvious markers’ of AI use, was described as ‘original, poetic and deeply moving’ by the judging chair A story widely accused on ...

After more than three years of seasonal makeovers, miniature home improvements and a rotating cast of guests and pets, the doll family who mysteriously moved into Don Powell’s mailbox now seems to ...

Nearly 80 years after Elizabeth Short’s 1947 murder, a claimed hidden room, disputed case files, and new suspect theories are ...

For as long as she can remember, Debbie Eichensehr has feared losing her mother. Throughout her early childhood and well into her teen years, she tried to quell her anxiety with a bedtime ritual.

Scientists have finally uncovered direct genetic evidence of Yersinia pestis — the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian — in a mass grave in Jerash, Jordan. This long-sought discovery resolves a ...

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