Scylla and Charybdis are two of the most famous sea monsters in “The Odyssey,” presenting Odysseus with one of the most ...

Sleepy and conservative on the surface, the island nation of Malta is filled with archaeological mysteries that have seeped ...

Maera was a dog of Icarius, as described in "Astronomica," an ancient guide later translated into English. Maera lead Icarius ...

From Bigfoot sightings to DIA lizard people, Colorado’s famous stories revisited for the state’s 150th anniversary.

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In 1992, Ray Harryhausen received a long-overdue Academy Award – the special Gordon E Sawyer Award for technical achievement.

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Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey follows one of literature's most famous and most laborious voyages home. In Homer's epic tale ...

The Inu Inu no Mi, Model: Bake-danuki, is a Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruit that allows its user to transform at will into a mythical raccoon named Tanuki. Inu means dog and it is one of the many ...

This excerpt from the new book The Earth Said Remember Me looks at the shifting baselines around the United States’ national bird — which many people already forget almost disappeared.

Spend your summer reading cozy romantasy tales, hard sci-fi adventures, ghostly thrillers, and horrifying alt-reality stories.