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 painters, as Carla Passino discovers

EMPIRE TALKS TO ALIEN: EARTH CREATOR NOAH HAWLEY ABOUT MAKING THE XENOMORPH GREAT AGAIN

FROM THE START, SIGOURNEY WEAVER HAS DEFIED CATEGORISATION AND EXPLODED EXPECTATIONS. AS THE QUEEN OF SCI-FI RETURNS IN AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH , WE SPEAK TO HER ABOUT A SINGULAR LEGACY

On being told that they had been bitten by a venomous snake, most eight-year-olds would panic. Not Nicholas Jubber; he was not terrified but disappointed by a diagnosis that contradicted his own. Nich

JULY 1986

Piecing together the inspirations and evolution of Mary Shelley’s famous monster