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For those of us who grew up on fairy tales and fantasy stories, RavenStone Castle represents a dream made tangible. It’s proof that magic and wonder aren’t confined to books or movies or distant ...

Travel expert Rick Steves has highlighted a gorgeous French city on the river for eager tourists, equating visiting it to a ...

Stories like A Court of Thorns and Roses have been seducing audiences with tales of romance and magical danger for hundreds of years. Edward John Poynter's painting Orpheus and Eurydice, 1862. Fairies ...

Christmas as we know it is not the product of a single moment or culture, but the result of many traditions layered over centuries. Its customs come from a mixture of ancient winter festivals, early ...

Look, I’m going to say something that might sound like hyperbole, but hear me out: Robert Eggers’ Werwulf could be the most important horror film of 2026. Not just the scariest, not just the best, but ...

Fantasy games hold a special place in the video game medium, often featuring adventures built around European medieval folklore. These genre aesthetics, full of spells and monsters, have been ...

Many medieval curses were dismissed as superstition—until the bodies started dropping. From a king’s coffin filled with toxic spores to a Templar leader’s prophecy that toppled a royal bloodline, ...

Archaeologists recently explored a long-lost Silk Road city at the bottom of a lake, uncovering a trove of artifacts and a medieval cemetery. Researchers have compiled "murder maps" of London, Oxford, ...