There is something immediately disarming about “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” It doesn’t arrive with spectacle or grand stakes; there are no sweeping romances or life-or-death ...

But after six innings and 77 pitches on Wednesday night, he was pulled from the game, even as he tried to sneak by Kelly after coming off the field, much ...

June 23, 2026 • Facts by day, fiction by night! At the end of a long day in the newsroom, many of our journalists head home and escape into novels of all types.

Key role: Matthew Hopkins in Witchfinder General (1968). Other horror roles: Roderick Usher in House of Usher (1960), Frederick Loren in House on Haunted Hill (1959), Henry Jarrod in House of Wax ...