Features

7 Facts about The Island of Dr. Moreau
My first Mental Floss piece, about H. G. Wells's classic body horror novel.

8 Facts about The Monster at the End of This Book
My Mental Floss piece about your four-year-old's favorite suspense novel.

7 Fast Facts about Maniac Magee
My Mental Floss article about Jerry Spinelli's kidlit classic.

100 Years of
Shirley Jackson
My award-winning retrospective for Rue Morgue includes interviews with Sarah Weinman, Ruth Franklin, Sarah Langan, and Melanie R. Anderson.
© 2016 Rue Morgue Magazine.

A Darkness
Down Under
My Rue Morgue cover story features in-depth interviews with Babadook writer/director Jennifer Kent and designer Alex Juhasz.
© 2014 Rue Morgue Magazine.

Slashed Beauties
My Rue Morgue feature examines the strange popularity of realistic, dissectible anatomical wax models.
© 2016 Rue Morgue Magazine.
Zombie Movies
My (highly subjective) Mental Floss rundown of 25 of the greatest zombie movies ever made.

Axes and Eyeballs
My Rue Morgue feature examines the weird history of controversial comics imprint Eerie Publications.
© 2010 Rue Morgue Magazine.

Take Me to the
Other Side
My Rue Morgue cover story dives into the 125-year history of the world's most popular tool for dialing up the dead.
© 2015 Rue Morgue Magazine.

Hot Rods and
Hellfire
My Rue Morgue feature about an EC-style horror comic with a psycho-surf soundtrack from Grim County Coroners.
© 2016 Rue Morgue Magazine.

The Spectacular Fall of '50s Crime Comics
My CrimeReads feature recounts the strange story of how the crime comics biz censored itself nearly to extinction.