The Western Reserve was found 600 feet deep off Michigan's Upper Peninsula ... Despite initial plans to wait out the storm, the crew headed for open water with only ballast water weighing down ...

Among them is the legendary ghost orchid—Dendrophylax ... reassuring an up-to-her-hips-in-swamp-water Streep, "We’re not lost." I stumble into a deep hole and barely catch my balance.

There’s nothing like a scary ghost story or a cliffhanging mystery to keep you on the edge of your seat. Both these forms of fiction are as popular today as they were when mass novel reading ...