By M.O. Muriel Golden Gazette News Thrills, chills and the monster in the dark: horror fiction is intended to unsettle, scare or create an intense sensation of dread in the reader. Of the seven [...]

By M.O. Muriel Golden Gazette News A heroic knight, abiding by chivalry’s strict codes of honor and demeanor, off on a quest to fight and defeat monsters and giants, thereby winning the favor of [...]

By M.O. Muriel Golden Gazette News Forbidding locales, a dangerous mission, death-defying stakes, high-octane chases: the action-adventure genre is all about exciting undertakings rife with physical danger and risk. According to critic Don D’Ammassa [...]

By M.O. Muriel Golden Gazette News Of the seven main genres of fiction, mystery fiction includes any novel or short story in which a detective (either amateur or professional) investigates and solves a crime-related [...]

By M.O. Muriel Golden Gazette News With J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy The Hobbit, prequel to The Lord of the Rings, just coming out in theaters, fantasy as a genre continues to entrance [...]

By Paula R. Stiles Golden Gazette News The Silk Road is the most famous in the world, and one of the most ancient. Dating back to shortly before the time of Christ, it was [...]

By Paula R. Stiles Golden Gazette News In 1909, a mere six years after the Wright Brothers first mastered powered flight over the windy sands of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the first air shows [...]

By Paula R. Stiles Golden Gazette News The oldest living civilization in the world, Egypt in northeast Africa has been around as a continuous culture for five thousand years. It was the land of [...]

By Paula R. Stiles Golden Gazette News The Gold Rush of 1849 in California is one of the most famous historical events of the Old West—not surprising when you consider how much it changed [...]

By Paula R. Stiles Golden Gazette News Many pulp writers made a living and had good reputations in their time. Fewer were influential outside of the pulps. And even fewer are remembered today. One [...]