Guillermo del Toro’s version of Mary Shelley’s myth

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

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

SAM NEILL ON HOW HE BECAME AN ACCIDENTAL HORROR HERO

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

A mature and wide-ranging exploration of undead folklore