India, 1221, the funeral pyre of the beloved Princess Lafla, crown is lifted up for the mourning crowds to see, at its apex the ruby said to contain

Two households, quite dissimilar in dignity, in France, where we lay our scene; there is the Groseille family, father unable to work since being injured in the Algerian

A Hungarian actor who emigrated to the United States in 1920, Béla Lugosi made almost a hundred and twenty films in his career, his name becoming synonymous with

A convenience store in a dying town where debts are paid with honour and those who would break the trust of the town must pay in blood; an

She tours the Bible Belt filling church halls, standing on stage in her white dress and speaking of serenity and an end to worldly toil, a comforting picture

Carl Sagan once said that we are a way for the universe to know itself; the tool by which we undertake this mammoth task is called science, a

Out of a grainy, slowly moving monochrome image of objects so abstract and removed from context that their form can be discerned but no function can be determined,

The mist lies perpetually thick around Black Hill Farm in the county of Shropshire, home to Captain John Lye, a veteran of the English Civil War which saw

It was the Thanksgiving weekend of 1994 when it happened, a fishing trip with her family when she left them for a moment that Abby West saw the

With a box holding the newly described snake affectionately known as Emma, the ophiologist and heir to the Pike Ale fortune Charles Poncefort “Hopsie” Pike boards the SS