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New England's Dark Day occurred on May 19, 1780, when an unusual darkening of the daytime sky was observed over the New England states [1] and parts of eastern Canada. [2] The primary cause of the event is believed to have been a combination of smoke from forest fires , [ 3 ] a thick fog , and cloud cover.
A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986) is a psychological thriller novel by Ruth Rendell, written under the pen name Barbara Vine. The novel won the American Edgar Award . [ 1 ] It was adapted as a television film of the same name in 1994 by the BBC .
In 2006, Gemstone began producing a more durable series of hardback reprint collections designed by Michael Kronenberg. Similar to the DC Archives and Marvel Masterworks series, the EC Archives superseded Cochran's original annotated Complete EC Library (of black-and-white stories) by reprinting sequential compilations of EC titles in a full-color, hardback archival format with new annotations.
According to a report in The New York Times, March 10 and 11, 1929, Isidore Fink, of 4 East 132nd Street, New York City, was in his Fifth Avenue laundry on the night of March 9, 1929, with the windows closed and door of the room bolted. A neighbor heard screams and the sound of blows, but not shots, and called the police, who were unable to get in.
The Secret of Chimneys is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in June 1925 [1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. [2]
Ralph Matthew McInerny (February 24, 1929 – January 29, 2010) [1] was an American author and philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame.McInerny's most popular mystery novels featured Father Dowling, [2] and was later adapted into the Father Dowling Mysteries television show, which ran from 1987 to 1991.
Ludvig Prinn's Mysteries of the Worm first appeared in Bloch's short story "The Secret in the Tomb" (Weird Tales May 1935). Lovecraft coined the Latin title, De Vermis Mysteriis. This analogue to Lovecraft's Necronomicon also features strongly in Bloch's story " The Shambler from the Stars " (1935), in which a character reads a passage from the ...
Occult detective fiction is a subgenre of detective fiction that combines the tropes of the main genre with those of supernatural, fantasy and/or horror fiction.Unlike the traditional detective who investigates murder and other common crimes, the occult detective is employed in cases involving ghosts, demons, curses, magic, vampires, undead, monsters and other supernatural elements.