Morphosis

C Day Lewis's poem ‘The Hawk Comes Down From The Air’ (1936) starts as Ted Hughesy avant la lettre : The hawk comes down from the a...

In George Buchanan 's allegorical idyll ‘Desiderium Lutetiae’ (written 1552, first published as the third of Buchanan's Silvae  ...

At one point in his autobiography,  Speak, Memory , Nabokov remembers being five (in 1904) and meeting one of his father's friends, ...

There's a lot of walking around in Fantasy, and I wonder why. Which is to say: I'm wondering in what sense walking figures as...

The OED says the first recorded use of the word ‘zombie’ (a word originally ‘of West African origin’) in English is 1819: 1819 R. So...

In the introduction to a recent reprint of Dracula (Constable, 2012) Colm Tóibín makes the case for Stoker’s book not just as a great n...

John Wyndham's 1951 novel The Day of the Triffids manages the impressive task of making vegetables scary. It requires a degree of c...