Nearly 200 years after Poe penned "The Raven" it is still one of America's most popular poems. Personally I like his "...

Back in 2009 I edited the 20 greatest short stories of Tolstoy anthology, which included thousands of annotations of difficult terms and...

Poe was a connoisseur of the supernatural. As the author of Coffee with Poe: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe's Life , I am sometimes aske...

To me, at least in his later years, Franz Kafka was our whiny man of literature. This is never so true as when he berated his family duri...

Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845) One of the first short stories in the English language to feature an out of body experience is A Sing...

"Edge of Tomorrow," the new Tom Cruise flick, has the protagonist waking up over and over to get a chance to destroy the sci-f...

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Big news for fans of The Divine Dantes trilogy! Book #2, The Divine Dantes: Paella in Purgatory, will go live on June 27, 2014 for $3.98...

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