Search results

Help

[[Image:brown lady spectre.jpg|thumb|Taken in 1936, it shows the "Brown Lady" ghost * Spectre (comics), a DC Comics character

[[Image:Vampire Hunter.jpg|thumb|Fan art of the fictional hunter:D"]] The image of the vampire hunter is often a mysterious and dramatic avenging hero, an

...e began shooting mostly short films and commercials. He and friends formed Image Ten Productions in the late 1960s, and they chipped in roughly $10,000 apie ...an anthology of tongue-in-cheek tales that were modeled after 1950s horror comics.

[[Image:Mazikeen.gif|thumb|Mazikeen - DC Comics]] ...ne hundred and thirty years, and begat children in his likeness and in his image,' which teaches, that till that time he bad not begotten them in his own li

...logical Greek god, the messenger of the deep. Over time, Triton's name and image came to be associated with a class of merman-like creatures, the Tritons, w [[Image:Tritons.jpg|thumb|Mantegna Andrea Battle of Tritons (Left Part)- 1470 - lat

The description of his image as a gold figure surrounded by twelve stone or bronze figures has been inte ...worshipping Crom on [[Samhain]] eve, but worship continued until the cult image was destroyed by St. Patrick with a sledgehammer.

[[Image:Giants and Freia.jpg|thumb|230px|The giants Fafner and Fasolt seize Freyja ...Fire Giants are enemies of the [[Marvel Comics]] version of [[Thor (Marvel Comics)|Thor]].

[[Image:Baku by Katsushika Hokusai.jpg|thumb|155px|right|A ''baku'' by [[Katsushika ...written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano (published by DC Comics, Vertigo imprint).

[[Image:black annis.jpg|thumb|Fantasy work]] *In his run on Doom Patrol, Scottish comics writer Grant Morrison made a monstrous figure with the same name one of the

[[Image:N12468.jpg|thumb|The cover of the original 1943 publication of ''The Gremli ...oducing the concept to a wider audience. Issues #33-#41 of ''Walt Disney's Comics and Stories'' published between June, 1943 and February, 1944 contained a n

*Puck has also been loosely re-imagined in many modern comics, but the house-elf Dobby in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series stays close ...peare/Library/SLT/ideas/folklore.html A folklore page, with a 1639 Puritan image of a demonized Puck]

...d all knowledge. The figure of Ce Acatl, would become inseparable from the image of the god. *The cult of Quetzalcoatl has been more or less idealized, and the image of a "white god" has became part of the popular culture.

[[Image:evil clown.jpg|thumb|Evil clown]] The image of the '''evil clown''' appears to be a recent development in popular cultu

[[Image:Orlock.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Count Orlock]] ===Comics===

[[Image:zombie_world.jpg|thumb|155px|right|ZombieWorld by John_Deadstock]] [[Image:zombie.jpg|thumb|155px|right|A fat zombie, as seen in [[Doom]] 3.]]

[[Image:Hades (Greek Mythology).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Hades, Greek god of the under [[Image:Amphora Hades Louvre G209.jpg|thumb|260px|Hades, labelled as ''"Plouton"'',

[[Image:Lucifer Liege Luc Viatour.jpg|thumb|right|260px|Lucifer (Cathedral St. Paul [[Image:Paradise Lost 19.jpg|200px|thumb|Lucifer, [[Gustave Doré]]'s illustration

[[Image:Asmodeus 2.jpg|thumb|from Collin de Plancy's ''Dictionnaire Infernal'']] [[Image:Asmodeus.gif|thumb|Asmodeus' seal]]

[[Image:Phoenix detail from Aberdeen Bestiary.jpg|thumb|275px|The phoenix from the ...iage, faith, constancy, summer, eternity, immortality, and light. It is an image of the cosmic fire some believe the world began and will end in. The Taoist

[[Image:Anubis standing.jpg|thumb|right|140px|Anubis]] ...refore worthy of entering the afterlife. Her heart is not heavier than the image of the goddess of Truth. Anubis says to Osiris, ''Her heart is an accurate

[[Image:Geryon herakles vase.jpg|thumb|Heracles fighting with Geryon. Greek krater, * Geryon appears in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman (DC Comics Modern Age) lurking in a tree of golden apples.

[[Image:Blessing_genie_Dur_Sharrukin.jpg|thumb|right|Ancient Assyrian stone relief [[Image:Genies_compared.png|thumb|300px|right|Western media has chosen many differe

[[Image:Mummy in Vatican.jpg|thumb|240px|An Egyptian mummy kept in the Vatican Muse [[Image:Mummy 501594 fh000031.jpg|thumb|350px|A mummy in the British Museum.]]

[[Image:Freddy Krueger.jpg|thumb|Freddy Krueger]] ...es on Elm Street'', published by now defunct comic book company Innovation Comics. The six issue mini-series, which was released in 1992, was meant to bridge

[[Image:1921MermaidLegs.jpg|thumb|250px|right|A mermaid looks up at the legs of a s [[Image:The_Little_Mermaid_4.jpg|right|250px|thumb|The statue of The Little Mermaid

[[image:Amazing1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The cover of issue one of [[Amazing Stories] ...ft|250px|The USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701) from [[Star Trek]] is an iconic image from television science-fiction.]]

...novel. For the monster itself see [[Frankenstein's Monster]]. For movies, comics and other derivative works see [[Frankenstein in popular culture]]'' [[Image:Frankenstein Cover.jpg|thumb|Book covers for ''Frankenstein'' have taken ma

[[Image:hydra.jpg|thumb|The multi-headed lernaean Hydra]] [[Image:Gustave Moreau 003.jpg|thumb|250px|Gustave Moreau: Heracles and the Lernaea

[[Image:Manticore.jpg|thumb|Ancient representation]] ...ourite animal; however, as he attempts to sketch it, he produces a ghastly image resembling a manticore.

[[Image:Brideoffrankenstein.jpg|thumb|Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's monster, alon The image of Frankenstein's monster in popular culture comes mostly from Boris Karlof

[[Image:Skheadshot.jpg|thumb|Stephen King]] In October 2005, King has signed up with Marvel Comics] this will be his first time writing original material for the comic book m

[[Image:Jason Voorhees.jpg|thumb|Jason Voorhees 19 inch figure]] On May 13, 2005, Avatar Press began releasing new ''Friday the 13th'' comics. The first, titled ''Friday the 13th'', was written by Brian Pulido and ill

[[Image:Dore woodcut Divine Comedy 01.jpg|thumb|A vision of hell from [[Dante]]’s ...n Moore]], also appeared in [[Neil Gaiman]]'s successful [[The Sandman (DC Comics/Vertigo)|Sandman]] series of graphic novels.

[[Image:Ghostonstaircase.jpg|thumb|250px|A manufactured image of a ghostly woman ascending a staircase]] [[Image:Brownlady.jpg|thumb|The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall|200px|right]]The Brown L

...into the Middle Ages, only being replaced by the more traditional European image of a walking skeleton as late as in the 15th century. ===Comics===

[[Image:Michelino DanteAndHisPoem.jpg|thumb|right|250px Dante shown holding a copy [[Image:Gustave Dore Inferno1.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Gustave Doré engravings illust

[[Image:William Fettes Douglas - The Alchemist.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The alchemist [[Image:flamel-figures.png|thumb|250px|Nicholas Flamel had these mysterious alchemi

[[Image:Re4boxart.jpg|thumbnail|left|150px|The [[GameCube]] boxart for ''Resident E ...etrieved January 27, 2006.</ref> The game is now only available as a [[ROM image]] for Game Boy [[emulator]]s.

[[Image:Naga.jpg|thumb|Sculpture India]] * Marvel comics features a super villain known as Naga. This Naga is a sorcerer, a king and

[[Image:John Bauer 1915.jpg|thumb|256px|Trolls with an abducted princess (John Baue ==Comics==

[[Image:Mokele-Mbembe.jpg|thumb|Mokele-Mbembe]] ...in "The Company of Men" (issues 6-8), the second arc of the ongoing Image Comics book Proof.

...illa]]'', about a lesbian vampire who preys upon a lonely young woman. The image of a vampire portrayed as an aristocratic man, like the character of Dracul ...Conway, Archie Goodwin and Gardner Fox) and drawn by Gene Colan for Marvel Comics in the 1970s.

[[Image:daleknew.jpg|right|thumb|200px|A Dalek from the 2005 series]] [[Image:Dalekattack.jpg|right|thumb|200px|A Dalek mutant attacks a soldier (from ''