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In science fiction and ufology, '''insectoid''' is the name given to alien creatures or extrat ==Art/Fiction==

...o that of [[George A. Romero]]'s 1973 film ''The Crazies'': as in Romero's film, the chemical weapon induces violent psychosis in those who are exposed to ...''The Survivor'', Herbert used supernatural horror rather than the science fiction horror of his first two books. ''The Dark'' showed the novelist's moralisti

...'Biorante') is a genetic hybrid kaiju who first appeared in the 1989 Toho film ''Godzilla vs. Biollante''. ...a genes took over and Biollante's body became an abomination of biological science. Biollante's second form had a head similar to that of a Mosasaur or crocod

...ature]]s that frequently appear in [[mythology]], [[legend]], and [[horror fiction]]. The word originates from the Old French ''monstre'', which derived from ...o understand the unknown. Monsters were seen as scientific puzzles; things science needed to understand. In the Enlightenment, the cabinet of curiosities woul

=Art / Fiction= ...revived as a monstrous inhuman beast in [[Dan Simmons]]' literary science fiction duology ''Ilium''.

...f fiction in which at least part of the narrative depends on the impact of science, either real or imagined, to generate settings or events which have not yet ...<ref>''Science Fiction: Its Nature, Faults and Virtues'' in ''The Science Fiction Novel: Imagination and Social Criticism'', Advent: Publishers, 1959. (This

===Grigori in Modern Fiction=== *In [[Kevin Smith]]'s movie ''[[Dogma (film)|Dogma]]'', Bartleby, one of the two fallen angels, is mentioned as being a

==Art / Fiction== The word "wraith" is also used in modern fiction to signify the shifting wraiths of T.A. Barron's book series The Lost Years

...[[United States|American]] [[screenwriter]], most famous for his [[science fiction]] [[television series|TV series]], ''[[The Twilight Zone]]''. The second o ...himself into weekly television. He stated in an interview that the science fiction format would not be controversial and would escape censorship unlike the ea

==In fiction== * ''Jack Frost'' is a Russo-Finnish film from 1964. Its Russian title is ''Morozko'', who is the Russian equivalent

'''''The Quatermass Experiment''''' is a British science-fiction serial broadcast by BBC Television in the summer of 1953 and re-staged by B Originally comprising six half-hour episodes, it was the first science-fiction production to be written especially for an adult television audience. Previ

...ost cultures and in many works of fiction, especially fantasy and [[horror fiction]]. ...vecraft]]'s short story "Herbert West; Reanimator" and the ''Re-Animator'' film inspired by the story.

...ates dread among the living. Zombies have become a staple of modern horror fiction, where they usually engage in the consumption of human flesh. The term "zom ...ill be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than gestures of ceremony."

The 90-minute film was a horror story shot in a documentary style and appeared as part of BBC ...and acted to add to the realism instead of reassuring viewers that it was fiction. The set and filming methods, including shaky hand-held video cameras, lent

...tudios in California from 1923 to 1960. The approach began with the 1923 film version of ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', and continued to encompass such ...ained on Stage 28 at Universal, which was constructed specifically for the film and dubbed "The Phantom Stage."

...of theories to account for the occurences of supernatural phenomenon that science fail to explain. ==Art/Fiction==

...irolamo Fabrici (1537-1619) tastefully examines the themes of romanticism, science and art.]] ...d authors, such as Brian Aldiss, claim that it is the very first [[science fiction]] novel.

The science fiction writer H.G. Wells, in the article ''Man of the Year Million'' in 1893, desc ...ist Gustav Sandgren, using the pen name Gabriel Linde, published a science fiction novel called ''Den okända faran'' (The Unknown Danger), where he describes

...ia) is an American writer. He is best known as a prolific and best-selling fiction author of popular suspense novels. ...ublished in 1968. From there he went on to write over a dozen more science fiction novels.

...ach the power and fame of Frankenstein; The Last Man, a pioneering science fiction novel of the human apocalypse in the distant future, is, however, sometimes ==Mary Shelley on film==

Christopher Stasheff wrote a series of science fiction/fantasy novels about a technological warlock, beginning with ''The Warlock ==Warlocks in film and television==

...proponents who insist that the phenomenon is inexplicable by conventional science, skeptics argue there are prosaic explanations for the phenomenon that do n ==EVP/ITC in fiction==

==Art/Fiction== ...er legendary creatures, the manticore is a popular monster and allegory in fiction:

==Science fiction== ...ostly from the [[Torah]]). They have mostly been in the regions of science-fiction; as [[Isaac Asimov]] noted in his introduction to [[More Wandering Stars]]:

==Art/Fiction== * One of the villains in the ''30 Days of Night'' (2007) film is listed as "Strigoi" in the end credits.

''Dracula'' has been attributed to many literary genres including horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. ...''Dracula'' is famous today (due in large part to its 20th century life on film), it was not an important or famous work for Victorian readers, being just

The Museum of Natural Science in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada is said to be haunted by the ghost of the Canadi ==Ghosts in fiction==

There have been many interesting attempts to reconcile mythology with science; many have theorized that mythology can and does contain grains of truth in ...The most prevalent theory among those that accept the correlation between science and the Bible is that the Nephilim were actually surviving Neanderthals, or

==Art/Fiction== ...yville, New York, which had once been a rectory. The house featured in the film bears some resemblance to the Borley Rectory.

...ens of plants and animals. Moving picture photographers from the Universal Film Manufacturing Company accompanied the expedition, in order to document the ...ver, describe Agnagna as doing "little more than lie, cheat and steal (our film and supplies) and turn the porters against us." After criminal charges were

A [[Doom (film)|Doom movie]], loosely based on the franchise, was released roughly six mon ...[[Night of the Living Dead|Living Dead]]'' series and James Cameron's 1986 film ''Aliens'', as well as Valve Software's ''Half-Life''.

The idea of doppelgängers is also seen in fiction involving time travel and parallel universes. In this case, the doppelgän =Art / Fiction=

...of a troubled high school student with telekinetic powers in the [[1976]] film ''[[Carrie]]'', based on the [[Stephen King]] novel of the same name. ...apanese [[manga]] ''[[Akira (manga)|Akira]]'' (and its subsequent animated film) telekinesis is a subject of secret government research, culminating in ext

More recently, science has also taken interest in mummies. Dr. Bob Brier, an Egyptologist, has be ...into the future, leaving open the possibility for [[clone|cloning]] should science perfect the technique on humans.

==Art/Fiction== * ''Invaders from Mars'' (1953) – A film, remade in 1986.

...itings of the lives of saints, often involving monstrous beasts unknown to science, and that this tale's setting near Loch Ness may have more to do with where Sporadic land sightings continued until 1963, when a poor-quality film of the creature was made from a distance of several miles.

*In the Beatles' animated film Yellow Submarine, large clowns serve as artillery for the Blue Meanies. *The science fiction movie ''Killer Klowns from Outer Space''.

...ure. These literary references have spawned references in modern times in film, animation, video and card games. ...over the years, the most recent in 1952 with Erich von Stroheim. The 1995 film ''Species'' also appears to draw some inspiration from this variation on th

...sor the Marquis' writing, which was adapted into the slightly less surreal film of the same name. ...re some of the more mainstream movies based on his history or his works of fiction:

...King evinces a thorough knowledge of the horror genre, as shown in his non-fiction book ''Danse Macabre'', which chronicles several decades of notable works i ...x of his father's old books at his aunt's house, mainly horror and science fiction. He was immediately hooked on these genres.

In the post-apocalyptic science-fiction book ''A Canticle For Leibowitz'', written by Walter M. Miller, Jr. and pub In the 1988 film [[The Seventh Sign]] this legendary character appears as a Father Lucci, wh

=Art /Fiction= * The first skin-walker film is ''The Werewolf'', a 1913 lost film.

...theory has also been mentioned in the current book on paranormal phenomena Science by Marie D. Jones. =Art/Fiction=

...r Peaks'' was one of the few adventures released by TSR to include science-fiction elements, such as ray guns and robots.]] ...sions reflect this history. The game was influenced by [[mythology]], pulp fiction, and contemporary fantasy authors of the 1960s and 1970s.

...im Reaper. Shinigami (often plural) are common in modern Japanese arts and fiction, and essentially absent from traditional mythology. ==Death in popular fiction==

...so notable is Julien Duvivie]'s "Le Golem" (1936), a sequel to the Wegener film. * The science-fiction novel ''Kiln People'' by David Brin features short-lived duplicates of peop

[[Image:Smalfut.jpg|thumb|Frame 352 from the Patterson-Gimlin film]] ...existing physical Bigfoot evidence and sightings unpersuasive; generally, science dismisses the phenomenon as the product of the misidentification of common

...ved January 27, 2006.</ref> which in turn was based on a Japanese [[horror film|horror movie]], スイートホーム (''Suiito houmu''). ''Sweet Home'' wa ...ident's daughter, from a ruthless terrorist organization that is using the science of the now defunct Umbrella Corporation in order to control the villagers o

...lfred Packer was satirically told in the Trey Parker comedy/horror/musical film, ''Cannibal! The Musical'', released in 1996 by Troma Studios. * H. G. Wells's ''The Time Machine'', an 1896 science fiction novel features cannibalism by the more advanced species, the [[Morlock]]s,

The authors of the book Science in Culture reason the child looked like the Brahmin because Varuthini belie ==Art / Fiction==

* ''[[What Dreams May Come (film)|What Dreams May Come]]'', a 1998 movie that won an Academy Award for its d * In the film ''[[Big Trouble in Little China]]'', there are continuous references to the

In the Luc Besson film The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Gilles de Rais is shown as one of In the science fiction short story "Rumfuddle" by Jack Vance, a baby who would have grown up to be

...a fictional extraterrestrial race of [[mutant]]s from the British science fiction television series ''[[:Category:Doctor Who|Doctor Who]]''. The mutated desc ...their lack of mobility with overwhelming firepower. A joke around science fiction conventions went, "Real Daleks don't climb stairs; they level the building.

=Art / Fiction= ==Film and TV==

...ord of the Rings, creatures called "orcs" have become a fixture of fantasy fiction and role-playing games. In these derivative sources, orcs and goblins are u ==Art/Fiction==

=Art/Fiction= ...ance's ''la Révolte des anges''; he is said to have led men to philosophy, science, and art.

...shows up as the Ripper in a number of books and films (including a 1988 TV film ''Jack the Ripper'' starring Michael Caine and the graphic novel ''From Hel ...er and Stephen as his lover. The book is widely dismissed as a sensational fiction based on previous theories rather than genuine historical research. Spierin