Today is an important day in the history of three related genres of literature: science fiction, horror, and fantasy. It’s the birthday of the science-fiction novelist H.G. Wells [1866], the horror novelist Stephen King [1947], and it was on this day in 1937 that J.R.R. Tolkien published his first novel, The Hobbit.
From The Writer’s Almanac, which has a little about each of the three.