Category: Greatest Hits • Page 1/5

Fifteen Years Forsaken
A true story of castaways on a lost and hostile scrap of land, all thanks to some meddlesome Frenchmen and terrible luck. Written by J. A. Macfarlane • 28 Apr 2021
Dupes and Duplicity
The true story of the 18th century's greatest femme fatale, and the most unfortunate of her victims. Written by Jennifer Lee Noonan • 04 Sep 2020
Empty Grand Central Terminal, by Alan Bellows. Buy a print.
Ghoulish Acts & Dastardly Deeds
In the 1950s, an anonymous terrorist planted a pipe bomb in a New York City public space. Then another. And another. Written by Alan Bellows • 31 Jul 2017
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The Reconstruction of Ulysses S. Grant
As a civilian, the beloved American Civil War general and two-term president failed at every attempt to make money. Except for one. Written by Michael Durbin • 11 Apr 2017
Artist's impression
Ten Minutes in Lituya Bay
A remote bay in Alaska is home to an odd and occasionally catastrophic geology. In 1958, a handful of people experienced this firsthand. Written by Alan Bellows • 30 Sep 2016
Mobilis In Mobili
A 1930s effort to reach the Earth's northernmost point via antiquated submarine. Written by Gustaf Hildebrand • 14 Jun 2016
The Driver
Colonels of Truth
The tumultuous true story of the life of a fast food icon. Written by Alan Bellows • 15 Mar 2016
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The Japanese Art of Self-Preservation
On the ancient Japanese Buddhist practice of self-mummification. Written by Erika Nesvold • 30 Nov 2015
The switch face, by Alan Bellows. Buy a metal print
The Zero-Armed Bandit
The true story of a treacherous contraption that appeared mysteriously in a Lake Tahoe casino. Written by Alan Bellows • 16 Jun 2015
The Derelict
A series of accidents and errors amass into disaster at sea. But that's not the end of the story. Written by Alan Bellows • 13 Jan 2015
Isabel in the Jungle, by Alan Bellows. Buy a print.
Welcome to the Jungle
An 18th-century Peruvian woman encounters a staggering amount of bad luck as she attempts to reunite with the husband she hasn't seen in twenty years. Written by Marisa Brook • 07 Jul 2014
The Bürgerbräukeller after the blast
The Clockmaker
A patient German inventor in Nazi Germany takes matters into his own hands. Written by Alan Bellows • 29 May 2014
White Death
A lone Finnish sniper repels enough invading Russians in WW2 to earn the nickname "White Death". Written by Jason Bellows • 04 May 2014
Absolute Zero is 0K
Victorian scientists struggle to reach and understand the vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly cold universe at Absolute Zero. Written by Alan Bellows • 20 Mar 2014
Three Thrown Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
An unlikely and unethical psychological experiment is undertaken at Michigan's Ypsilanti State Hospital in 1959. Written by Alan Bellows • 22 Nov 2013
The Eagle shortly after liftoff.
Andrée and the Aeronauts’ Voyage to the Top of the World
The story of three adventurers who tried to reach the North Pole via hydrogen balloon in 1897. Written by Alan Bellows • 24 Jun 2013
Red Square, Moscow, 1961
The Spy Who Loved Nothing
The story of an American who was dead-set on spying for the KGB. Written by Gustaf Hildebrand • 18 Feb 2013
The Thinker
The Science of Mental Fitness
Intensive imagining can have measurable effects on the physical body. Written by Marisa Brook • 13 Nov 2012
Artist's rendering of the futuristic control room
Nineteen Seventy Three
Chile's audacious 1970s-era plan to network and automate the country's entire economy, hindered by political upheaval and CIA maneuvering. Written by Alan Bellows • 19 Oct 2012
Night Takes Rook
The rise and fall of a life-saving lighthouse built on a scrap of rock by a determined yet under-qualified builder. Written by J. A. Macfarlane • 04 Sep 2012