Today in History for Nov. 23: In 1621, poet John Donne was elected dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. In 1765, Frederick County, Maryland, became the first colonial entity to repudiate the ...

Stephen King’s iconic monster Pennywise from IT (1986) has roots and echoes across his and related works. Its precursor may be the 1973 short story Gray Matter, which features grotesque transformation ...