Mothra, Gamera, Godzilla and giant ants, these constantly rampaging kaijū seemingly never give Toyoko a break.

Where, when and why did we decide that April 1st was a good day to pull pranks on one another? Well, like many weird aspects of our...

There are many fathers of science fiction. But it's Hugo Gernsback we must thank for making science fiction the genre it is today.

John William Polidori was working off a lot of mythology. Legends of vampires go back to the ancient Greek myths of Ambrogio and Selena.

The 1950s was the era of duck and cover. It was also a time when sci-fi came along in leaps and bounds.

The central theme of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is duality and it's one of the most famous examples of the explorations of this theme.

The Cottingley Fairies were a series of five photographs taken in 1917 by cousins Elsie Wright, 16 and Frances Griffiths, 9.

A pet peeve, one I've held for a long time, is the difference between beasts and monsters.

This is one of those monumental historical gaffs we've all heard of.

On the 25th August 1835, The Sun published the first of six articles announcing the discovery of life on the moon.

The Devil in the White City follows the lives of two men. Daniel Hudson Burnham and Henry H. Holmes.