According to myth, cave wyrms are terrifying creatures that live deep inside mountain caves, or sometimes in marshes and fens ...

Stephen King’s Danse Macabre (1981) argues that horror serves a cathartic function, allowing creators and audiences to confront fears safely, providing an emotional “workout” that helps individuals ...

1470 (Public Domain) There’s a strange phenomenon when it comes to dragon mythology ... creatures appear everywhere from China and Japan to Egypt, Greece, South Africa and ancient Mesopotamian ...

The world’s oldest map unlocks secrets from 3,000 years ago revealing how our ancestors understood the world. The Babylonian ...

Noah, cautioned by God, constructs an ark to protect his family and pairs of creatures from a flood intended to purify the Earth. Mesopotamian Mythology: The Epic of Gilgamesh also features ...

By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens ...

Robert Eggers’s recent film “Nosferatu” — starring Bill Skarsgård and Lily-Rose Depp — is a lackluster addition to the Dracula mythos.

As a lifelong fan of turn-based monster-taming games ... The map is expanded to include all of classical Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Greece, and there are dozens of new factions, including Babylon ...