5 Haunted Houses Where I'd Love to Stay the Night
Here are a five freaky places I'd stay the night if I could, possibly take up residence and hang out all night with those things that go bump in the night!
Here are a five freaky places I'd stay the night if I could, possibly take up residence and hang out all night with those things that go bump in the night!
Ruth Richardson | Posted 05.17.2012
London, October, 2010. Local people trying to save an old building from demolition called upon me to help. I'm a historian, and years ago I'd written about a Victorian doctor who'd worked there.
Conde Nast Traveler | Posted 05.16.2012
No wonder there's a trace of lament in the Mona Lisa's smile.
Dave Astor | Posted 05.20.2012
Creating a novel is tough. Until you get the hang of it, it can be hard to do the Proustian thing.
Posted 03.06.2012
By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 03/05/2012 04:09 PM EST on LiveScience Plucky, ailing Tiny Tim is one of the most end...
David Tereshchuk | Posted 04.10.2012
If we consider Dickens' career as a whole we can see that this secret lay to a large degree in his work as a factually observant and emotionally alert journalist.
Dave Astor | Posted 04.09.2012
Charles Dickens' 200th birthday and Edith Wharton's 150th birthday got me thinking about how old famous novelists were when they died. How does the longevity of notable authors compare to the longevity of adults in general?
The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 02.07.2012
In an illustrative nod to the late and great English author Charles Dickens on his 200th birthday, Google's old-fashioned doodle of the day features s...
Nicole Villeneuve | Posted 04.08.2012
Unlike for some of his other novels, Dickens didn't use planning notes for Great Expectations. The pages of the manuscript are dense with corrections.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 04.01.2012
Every society sees and treats its poorest members differently. For China specialists, the most important new publication on the impoverished is the first book by Princeton historian Janet Y. Chen.
Michael Gilmour | Posted 03.10.2012
I found myself thinking about an aspect of Dickens easily overshadowed.. I refer to his subtle use of biblical literature.
Dave Astor | Posted 03.06.2012
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is an epic tragedy that leaves readers shocked and awed. But, along the way, there are some delightfully funny interludes -- most notably the pre-voyage scene in which Ishmael and Queequeg end up in the same bedroom.
Necessary Conversation | Posted 02.28.2012

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 12.23.2011
It certainly is nifty to be thrifty with the holidays upon us. After all, today's penny pinching could result in tomorrow's bountiful celebration. ...
Bob Burnett | Posted 02.22.2012
It's been 168 years since Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol to illustrate the horrific living conditions of the English poor and promote the true nature of Christmas. If Dickens were still alive, he'd be compelled to update his tale.
Posted 12.21.2011
At some point in its history, Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' stopped being just a book and became a Christmas experience, a force of its own, br...
Noah St. John | Posted 02.19.2012
In the fall of 1843, a British novelist found himself facing financial uncertainty. Although his previous novels had sold moderately well, his family bills were mounting and the mortgage was due.
Lev Raphael | Posted 02.15.2012
I bet you never realized A Christmas Carol was in danger, did you? And it's not from people supposedly trying to take "Christ" out of Christmas.
Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 02.12.2012
The story of A Christmas Carol is about what greed can do to the human soul and prices we all pay as a result. The greed that motivated Dickens' tale still permeates the collective consciousness today.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 02.07.2012
Books change over time, and over 170 years, A Christmas Carol has changed more than most. The story is a slow starter. There's a lot of extraneous description. So this former English major hacked 15,000 words out of Charles Dickens' immortal novel.
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 02.06.2012
The infamous words of the biblical Cain could readily serve as the slogan of today's Republican Party: "Am I my brother's keeper?" Their answer is identical with that implicit in the rhetorical question posed by Abel's killer. "Hell, No!"
Pearl Korn | Posted 01.14.2012
This is a lovely, pre-holiday tale that could have captured the imagination of Charles Dickens. It is the story of a little, independent, different kind of bookshop that has served an artist and working-class community for 34 years.
Madeleine Crum | Posted 01.04.2012
The sweetheart (or miscreant, depending on the flick) of period piece films, Helena Bonham Carter is making a silver-haired return to the silver scree...
David Galenson | Posted 01.02.2012
Like many experimental artists, Dickens never arrived at a single definitive masterpiece that embodied the essence of his contribution: he was an experimental artist who loved process and motion, and who never ceased developing.
Dave Astor | Posted 11.14.2011
My list includes the authors' names, the number of novels I've read by each of them, and my three favorite novels (in rank order) by each of them. If you have different favorites by those authors, I'd like to hear about that.
Varla Ventura | Posted 05.23.2012