Tellers of Weird Tales

Frederick Exley was born in Watertown, New York, in 1929. His birthplace isn't anywhere near the Hudson River. Instead, Exley had views...

Like I said, I did not set out on a reading program about the Hudson River as it appears in literature. Instead, I began thinking about the ...

North of the Bronx is the Tappan Zee, a wide place in the Hudson River with a combination American Indian-Dutch name. Tarrytown is on the ea...

In this centennial year of The New Yorker and The Great Gatsby , I have been writing about New York, its islands, its rivers, its cities, a...

I have a book here next to me called The Hudson: A History , written by Tom Lewis and published in 2005. I had it offered for sale but took...

The Hudson River was named after English explorer Henry Hudson (ca. 1565-1611 or after), who sailed upriver in 1609 while in the employ of ...

The fictional Dunwich lies in the valley of the fictional Miskatonic River, but that river has a different and more ominous appearance than ...

On March 3, 1924, Howard Phillips Lovecraft married Sonia Greene and moved in with her in her apartment in Brooklyn, New York. Early the f...

In late September, near the beginning of my five-weeks-and-a-day, I re-read "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving  (1...

It seems that for decades a lot of men and even many women used only their initials in everything they did. That habit confounds the people ...

Utopia Into Lost Worlds One of the problems with stories of Utopia and Dystopia is that their authors often spend so much time describing th...