In science fiction and ufology, '''insectoid''' is the name given to alien creatures or extrat
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...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
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...'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
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...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
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...revived as a monstrous inhuman beast in [[Dan Simmons]]' literary science fiction duology ''Ilium''.
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...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
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===Grigori in Modern Fiction===
*In [[Kevin Smith]]'s movie ''[[Dogma (film)|Dogma]]'', Bartleby, one of the two fallen angels, is mentioned as being a
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The word "wraith" is also used in modern fiction to signify the shifting wraiths of T.A. Barron's book series The Lost Years
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...[[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
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* ''Jack Frost'' is a Russo-Finnish film from 1964. Its Russian title is ''Morozko'', who is the Russian equivalent
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'''''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
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...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.
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...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."
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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
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...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."
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...of theories to account for the occurences of supernatural phenomenon that science fail to explain.
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...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.
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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
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...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.
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...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==
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