H.G. Wells THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU Like The Time Machine, Wells’s 1896 romance The Island of Doctor Moreau is also deeply pervaded by the contemporaneous Fin de Siècle / Fin du Globe train of thought. The fact that it ...

The fin de siècle newspaper proprietor INTRODUCTION The term Fin de Siècle is more immediately suggestive of writers and artists like Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley than a figure such as H. G. Wells. The bulk of Wells’s prodigious oeuvre ...

*Contains spoilers* “Of all the melancholy themes, the one universally recognised by mankind as the saddest of all is the most obvious one: Death. And that most melancholy theme becomes the most poetic of all, when coupled with the theme ...

Constellations is the new line of quality SF film monographs from Auteur Press, standing proudly alongside their slightly better-known Devil’s Advocate horror film series. Released last year as part of the first wave of these, this one finds noted film ...

With Mario Bava’s Black Sunday (1960) opening the bloody floodgates of Italian export horror, Bava’s friend and former mentor, Riccardo Freda, responded with a horrific hit of his own; The Horrible Dr Hichcock (1962). Itself one of the best films ...

By 1969, Bram Stoker’s most celebrated creation had appeared in countless films, some loosely based on the novel from whence he came, some so wildly divergent that they almost beggar belief. Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1966) and Dracula vs. ...

“Our ancestors had imaginations that were positively – diabolic!”  The Punisher “That’s quite a poetic name to apply to what is after all a brutal instrument of torture,” comments a suspicious Rhineland doctor after being shown The Virgin of Nuremberg ...

“Come closer, please. I have something to tell you. Ladies and gentlemen, I am Boris Karloff. Allow me to introduce three brief tales of terror and the supernatural. I hope you didn’t come to the movies alone. As you will ...

I come from the past. I exist in the present and in the future. I am here to offer you a life of passion for centuries everlasting. A realm which is waiting for you. A beautiful world of strange colours ...

Although a great film, Riccardo Freda and Mario Bava’s attempt to reignite the horror genre in Italy, I vampiri (US: The Devil’s Commandment), failed miserably at the box office when released in 1957. By all accounts this was largely due ...