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Lucy Quintanilla In the late 1980s and early ‘90s, R.L. Stine’s horror series Fear Street—which featured ghosts, vampires, and killer cheerleaders, not to mention illustrated covers decked out with creepy fonts—terrified teens. Now, Stine’s Fear Street books are heading to Netflix in a three-film trilogy debuting this July. Here are a few things you might not have known about the series. 1. The Fear Street series has its roots in an editor’s fight with another teen horror author. Stine had been working for Scholastic, writing joke books (under the name “Jovial Bob Stine”) and ...

07 April 2021 - 13:09 By Michael Sears Kwei Quartey's 'Sleep Well, My Lady' is set around the murder of a famous Ghanaian fashion designer. Image: Supplied Published in the Big Thrill (01/04/2020) Last year, acclaimed author Kwei Quartey branched out from his celebrated police procedurals set in Ghana featuring Inspector Darko Dawson to start a new series around PI Emma Djan. The first book in the series, The Missing American, is a twisty page-turner, delving into the dark domain of Ghanaian internet fraudsters - but they are only part of a vicious web of corruption an...

Exploring the underground crime world of plant smuggling Australian writer Tony Park in conversation with Michael Sears 15 March 2021 - 12:29 By Michael Sears Published in the Big Thrill (01/03/2021) Although an Australian, Tony Park is the author of 18 bestselling thrillers set in Africa. A “once-in-a-lifetime” safari holiday to southern Africa in 1995 turned out to be anything but for Park, who found in Africa the inspiration he needed to follow his dream, quitting his job in public relations and becoming a full-time writer. Park and his wife Nicola now live half the year - ...

tonight about 65 million people from north carolina to new england are in the path of hurricane irene. ten governors declared states of emerge system new york city officials ordered the first mandatory evacuations in city history, but along the jersey shore, drivers can testify trying to get out of harm's way is a slow nerve-racking process. the hurricane isn't waiting. right now, the storm, a category 2 with 100 mile-an-hour sustained winds is heading for the north carolina coast. our coverage starts with john in north carolina. we probably don't need to ask you to set the scene for...

Have a way out. more than 2,000 feet below the service has been broken through, and it created a shaft just wide enough for a especially-designed capsule to fit in and pull them out. hello on this very exciting day. how long before the men might actually reach the surfiurfacsu? >> reporter: big question without an answer. the big thrill, of course, they punched through, as you said. they have a 28-inch wide shaft from the surface all the way down to the men. when they punched through, a tremendous amount of -- well, i guess giddiness among all the family members on the surface as well as the t...