London in 1886 was a city brimming with contradictions. Gaslight illuminated the streets while fog crept in around Parliament, and in...

Ambrose Bierce lived a life as sharp and uncompromising as the words he put to the page. Born in a log cabin in Ohio in 1842, the tenth...

In the late 1920s, southern California was booming—fields giving way to movie studios, small towns transforming into bustling cities. But...

In the spring of 1935, the quiet English seaside town of Bournemouth was shaken by a crime that became one of the most sensational trials...