The future littoral combat ship Sioux City was launched into Wisconsin's Menominee River in 2016. (Navy) LE MARS, Iowa — When dignitaries gathered in a Wisconsin shipyard last month to celebrate ...

Science Fiction & Fantasy: Crossing the Styx, and Back Again Death is far from final in Justin Cronin’s ‘The Ferryman’ and Charles Stross’s “Season of Skulls.’ ...

Actors who played the role of Charon, Ferryman of the River Styx: Bertram Peacock [] ...

The Greek realm of the dead had a banner year at the 2019 Tony Awards. If eight wins for Anaïs Mitchell’s “Hadestown,” a folk retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth wasn’t enough, Jez ...

Welcome, travellers, to the captivating realm of the Greek underworld – Hades! Our journey begins on the legendary River Styx, a dark and swirling river that separates the world of the living from the ...

In the latest trailer for Annabelle Comes Home (you can check it out below) we’re introduced to a hideous specter called “The Ferryman”. There’s only one notorious ferryman in literature ...

On your trip to the underworld, you were misted with water from the River Styx, jostled in the boat, and asked for your coin of passage by Charon, ferryman for the dead.

Perhaps predictably, Uncle Patrick introduces Virgil’s Aeneid, with its image of Charon the ferryman, and explains who is and who isn’t allowed across the River Styx. There are poems and songs, and a ...