• Crime in History

    On Bram Stoker's Forgotten Dracula Play

    It's not good... but it IS a play

    August 2, 2024  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    That Time Arthur Conan Doyle Tried to Stump Harry Houdini with a Stop-Motion Dinosaur Film Clip

    It was the culmination in their longstanding feud about the existence of a psychic, occult world

    July 26, 2024  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    The Early Vampire Novel The Vampyre was Falsely Attributed to Lord Byron

    Olivia Rutigliano on the publishing history of J.W. Polidori's 1819 novel

    June 14, 2024  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Mark Twain Wrote a Book Called Tom Sawyer, Detective

    Towards the end of his career, Twain expanded his series about Tom and Huck with two surprising genre experiments.

    March 1, 2024  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Shakespeare's First Folio has been Stolen Many, Many Times

    Alicia Andrzejewski and Carole Levin outline some of the most brazen heists of a historic volume.

    November 13, 2023  By Alicia Andrzejewski and Carole Levin
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    100 years of Supernatural Searching

    Or, what the 1920s teach us about grief, fraud, and spiritualism.

    October 17, 2023  By Anbara Salam
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    Phonies: J.D. Salinger and Wielding Copyright as Self-Protection

    Salinger spent the second half of his career fighting for authors' right to privacy. Did it do any good?

    August 30, 2023  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    The Jewel Thief is an Intimate Portrait of a Criminal Mastermind

    It's the story of Gerald Blanchard, the prolific bank robber and thief

    July 28, 2023  By Julia Sirmons
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    The Murder Case in Arden Of Faversham, the Greatest Shakespearean-Era Play You've Never Heard Of

    Renowned theater scholar Amnon Kabatchnik on the sixteenth century courtroom drama that is the first surviving play about a real murder.

    July 14, 2023  By Amnon Kabatchnik
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    The Kaleidoscopic Immortality
    of Jimmy Hoffa

    From Danny DeVito's Hoffa to Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, to numerous books, the mystery of America's most famous labor leader continues to fascinate us.

    June 23, 2023  By Jesse Pasternack
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