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The New Goosebumps TV Series Squirms Its Way to Disney+
We first heard an ethereal, sinister whisper that a live-action Goosebumps TV series might be coming to haunt us back in 2020. But now that whisper has become a piercing scream of utter terror, such as one might make when menaced by a sentient ventriloquist’s dummy, which shrieks, “That live-action Goosebumps TV series is now…
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5 Victorian Detective Stories You Must Read if You Like Sherlock Holmes
In December 1893, just six years after his first appearance and at the height of his popularity with the late-Victorian reading public, Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most famous fictional detective, was killed off by his creator Arthur Conan Doyle. In The Final Problem, published in The Strand magazine, Sherlock plunged over the Reichenbach Falls in…
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The Gizmodo Guide to The Wheel of Time
It’s one of the biggest fantasy series of all time — and not just in popularity. Robert Jordan’s 15 books span more than 11,000 pages of adventure, lore, and world-building that can be incredibly intimidating to start reading. Maybe it’s even made you wary of Amazon’s upcoming TV adaptation of the series. If that’s true,…
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Hallelujah, Amazon’s New Kindles Finally Have USB-C
The Kindle is a classic for a reason: Amazon’s small, simple, affordable ereader lineup may not have a lot of bells and whistles, but it’s been good enough to get the job done. Times have changed, though, and people have come to expect even their cheap devices to have the latest technology. The Kindle’s microUSB…