Will Storr has done some seriously bizarre and otherworldly things over the course of his career as a journalist. But even spending an entire day with Ozzy Osbourne wasn't as frightening as when he agreed to follow Philadelphia "demonologist" Lou Gentile on his appointed rounds. Will Storr never bel[...]
When journalist and ghost sceptic Will Storr heads to Philadelphia to meet Lou Gentile, a demonologist, he expects a little fun with an amusing eccentric. What he gets are terrifying experiences of spectral lights and horrific demonic growling - and all of his safe, adult preconceptions about ghosts[...]
Why do obviously intelligent people believe things in spite of the evidence against them? Will Storr has travelled across the world to meet an extraordinary cast of modern heretics in order to answer this question. He goes on a tour of Holocaust sites with David Irving and a band of neo-Nazis, exper[...]
The great playwrights of the British, American and European theatre - and the plays most constantly performed are represented in this unique collection. Playwrights include: Ayckbourn, Bond, Beckett, Berkoff, Brecht, Coward, Fugard, Genet, Ionesco, Jarry, Miller, O'Neill, Orton, Osborne, Sartre, Sha[...]
"Survivor." "The Bachelor." "Extreme Makeover." "Big Brother." "Joe Millionaire." "American Idol." "The Osbournes." It is virtually impossible to turn on a television without coming across some sort of reality programming. Yet, while this genre has rapidly moved from the fringes of television cultur[...]
Will Storr was in the tropical north of Australia, excavating fossils with a celebrity creationist, when he asked himself a simple question. Why don't facts work? Why, that is, did the obviously intelligent man beside him sincerely believe in Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden and a six-thousand-year-[...]
While excavating fossils in the tropics of Australia with a celebrity creationist, Will Storr asked himself a simple question. Why don t facts work? Why, that is, did the obviously intelligent man beside him sincerely believe in Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden and a six-thousand-year-old Earth, in [...]