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If Poe was the quirky father of modern horror, its uncle was the sobersided James, who was strongly influenced by the terrors that afflicted his family. His brother William, the pragmatic philosopher and investigator into the varieties of religious experience, recalled one of his most terrifying moments: "Suddenly there fell...
Just 45 minutes after it got under way, the pleasure trip turned to disaster. The 41,000-ton Soviet freighter Pyotr Vasev suddenly loomed out of the darkness. The Admiral Nakhimov's deck officers warned it off by radio, but the big cargo ship bore down steadily and struck the...
The terrorists, alternately harsh and conciliatory, angrily ordered passengers to move to the center of the plane. Some obeyed, while others tried to hide in the darkness. Recalls Michael Goldstein, a physician from Los Angeles: "The stewardesses were using megaphones, asking passengers to be very quiet amd not to panic...
In any event, the chaos aboard Flight 73 was all too real. "They herded us together and ordered us to lie down on the floor," recalled Dick Melhart, of Pullman, Wash., who had been thinking all day about how he should try to escape if the opportunity came. Said David...
No other sculptor's imagination was more manifestly connected to his past, even to his infancy, than Moore's. Like D.H. Lawrence, he came from a mining village; his father had labored in the pit and risen to become an engineer. His mother bore eight children, and one does not...