My Immortal has been among the internet’s greatest mysteries, with Vulture in particular conducting a wide-ranging investigation of who (and what) was behind it more than two years ago. With only a ...

The memoir mostly focused on Christo’s childhood in the New York foster care system, but it also touched upon a legend in Harry Potter fandom: the infamously terrible fanfic My Immortal. Its author ...

This article originally appeared in Vulture. Like Stonehenge or the works of Shakespeare, we’ll probably never know who was behind “My Immortal”—the massive Harry Potter–inspired text that is widely ...

Handbook for Mortals is an indie-published fantasy novel that appeared out of nowhere, reaching the top of the New York Times YA bestseller list before being revealed as a scam. Someone had placed ...

The Harry Potter fandom has long been one of the biggest doorways into writing fanfiction. And while I missed out on the internet's proclivity for fanfic completely (I have never read or written any ...

More than two years ago, Vulture published an investigation into one of the greatest online mysteries in recent history: the origins of “My Immortal,” widely regarded as the world’s worst piece of ...

Team Gwen went head-to-head on a recent episode of The Voice, with contestants Joslynn Rose and Rudi battling it out with a rendition of “My Immortal” by Evanescence. The battle opened with the ...

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