Day: April 16, 2025
‘Lord forgive me. I am quite shameless’, author playfully wrote in note weeks after horror novel published in 1897
He had just unleashed one of the most famed gothic horror books on the world, a blood-curdling classic that chilled readers and has inspired countless authors, film-makers and video game developers ever since.
But a rare note that Bram Stoker wrote just weeks after Dracula was published in 1897 gives a glimpse into the playful fun he must have had with the novel.
Woman identified as Teresa says she was estranged from Jorge Gonzalez, 37, and is worried for her ill mother-in-law
The widow of a man who died on a New York subway train before his corpse was robbed by two different people and then allegedly sexually violated by one of the assailants says learning of her mostly estranged husband’s grim fate left her “shocked” as well as worried for her ill mother-in-law.
In an interview published on Tuesday by the New York Daily News, the woman said the last thing she was expecting was to learn from investigators the horrifying details concerning the death of 37-year-old Jorge Gonzalez as authorities asked for help in finding suspects.
Cuts to disaster agency and deregulation of fossil fuels, plus rise of water-guzzling datacentres, highlighted in new report
The Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to the federal climate disaster agency – and the full-throttle deregulation of fossil fuels and water-guzzling datacentres – could prove catastrophic for America’s endangered rivers, threatening the food, water and livelihoods of millions of people, according to a new report.
American Rivers’ annual most-endangered rivers list lays bare a myriad of human-made threats including floods, drought and other extreme weather events driven by the climate crisis, as well as industrial pollution and poor river management – all of which Trump’s regulatory rollbacks will almost inevitably make worse.
