Features

Doctor Moreau

7 Facts about The Island of Dr. Moreau

My first Mental Floss piece, about H. G. Wells's classic body horror novel.

The Monster at the End...

8 Facts about The Monster at the End of This Book

My Mental Floss piece about your four-year-old's favorite suspense novel.

Maniac Magee

7 Fast Facts about Maniac Magee

My Mental Floss article about Jerry Spinelli's kidlit classic.

Shirley Jackson

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.

The Babadook

A Darkness
Down Under

My Rue Morgue cover story features in-depth interviews with Babadook writer/director Jennifer Kent and designer Alex Juhasz.

HagCult

Season of
the Hag

My Halloween feature for award-winning alt weekly Metro Pulse delves into the life and career of the rising-star illustrator known as HagCult.

Anatomical Models

Slashed Beauties

My Rue Morgue feature examines the strange popularity of realistic, dissectible anatomical wax models.

Zombie Movies

My (highly subjective) Mental Floss rundown of 25 of the greatest zombie movies ever made.

Eerie Publications

Axes and Eyeballs

My Rue Morgue feature examines the weird history of controversial comics imprint Eerie Publications.

Ouija Boards

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.

Grim County Coroners

Hot Rods and
Hellfire

My Rue Morgue feature about an EC-style horror comic with a psycho-surf soundtrack from Grim County Coroners.

Midcentury Crime Comics

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.