I don’t give out candy, or anything else, on Halloween. Not for reasons of miserliness or whatever; I simply live in a spooky ...

I had no reason to go into South Jersey, and so, for a long time, all of those subway stations I passed when walking around Philadelphia were little mythical pockets of alternate existence from which ...

Open up any novel by David Peace and you will find ghosts, and people beset by ghosts. The haunted are almost always from the ...

Japanese RPGs (JRPGs for short) do a lot of things right, but one thing they are not particularly known for is respecting the ...

Species around the world are threatened by the illegal wildlife trade, which peddles in wares such as pangolin scales, ...

Thousands of Dubliners showed up for the city’s much-anticipated Halloween parade on Thursday evening. They lined the streets ...

What’s the most upsetting thing you can imagine existing on the internet? How about two videos—one 28 minutes in length, the ...

This article was originally published by The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. In early May, on a blue-sky day in Jefferson City, ...

Here is a way to visualize how I feel about the broader state of things most days: Imagine a cooling lake of lava. A thin ...

On the first play of their Wednesday night national showcase game in Oklahoma City, the San Antonio Spurs ran a lob play ...

The greatest Shohei Ohtani playoff day was his first. That’s not to dismiss his overall postseason contributions—he had an ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something ...