Hell’s Kitchen was renamed in 1959, but Clinton didn’t really stick. Clearly these are no names for the utopia that some of our most committed urbanists have started to envisage on the Far West Side.

What prompted the idea for the course? When Meghan R. Henning, a scholar of early Christianity, completed her 2014 book on how the concept of hell evolved in the early Christian church, she wanted to ...

William Peter Blatty was pounding out the first pages of "The Exorcist" when his telephone rang – bringing the news that his mother had died. The screenwriter was already digging into dark material ...

(The Conversation) — Ancient Christian and Jewish texts threatened women with hellfire if they stepped out of line – and those terrifying visions still resonate in U.S. society today. (The ...

For horror fans, Night of the Living Dead is not just a classic, it’s a rebirth of sorts. Sure, there were zombie movies before George Romero’s 1968 creepfest. But Night and its sequels defined the ...

Historian Amanda Foreman searches the past for the origins of today’s world. Read previous columns here. What is hell? For Plato, it was Tartarus, the lowest level of Hades where those who had sinned ...

Dante's "Inferno" describes the nine circles of hell with visions of stinking swamps, fiery rains and rivers of blood. Christopher Moltisanti, after a near-death experience on the HBO show "The ...

Your perpetual doomsday memo is beginning to sound monotonous, irritating and annoying. In fact, you are beginning to look like Satan himself, moving from one realm to another. Discover Lagos' top 5 ...