It sounds like the start of a horror film: a shadowy figure at the end of your bed, a faceless presence sitting on your chest ...

Source: The story of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons What are dreams made of and are they important? Questions like this are still the subject of scientific ...

Taking as many guises as his names, the Prince of Lies turned at times into a man-devouring ogre, a mutant medley of claws, horns and wings, or the brooding rebel that lit the imagination of Romantic ...

Jacob Elordi stars as the monster in the movie, which also features Oscar Isaac, Christoph Waltz and Mia Goth. Everything he has done so far has led him towards Frankenstein, says Oscar-winner ...

If one were to strip descriptions of one’s ethnic or racial appearance from a story, the way Toni Morrison does in Recitatif, then a search for a person’s race will often rely on interconnectedness or ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s a small work. Pencil on paper, crowded with scratchy detail. At the centre, a figure cowers on an iron ...

Henry Fuseli scandalized London, but his painting of a demonic visitor quickly became popular across art and culture. Chest pressure. You feel it at night, never quite knowing if its source is ...

Few landlocked cities offer an alluring tableau for the dawn like Zurich. Switzerland's biggest city sits on the Limmat River at the top of Lake Zurich, which on clear days sparkles brilliantly, ...

When he was only twenty-one, Theodor von Holst became the first artist to illustrate Frankenstein, producing for the edition of 1831 a remarkable frontispiece of the moment of the monster’s first ...

From erotic drawings to Mickey Mouse on a motorcycle, works in the author’s home nurtured his creativity. They’ll star at Christie’s June sales. A detail of Maurice Sendak’s Disneyana collection.