Ancient Greek kings used war elephants from Alexander to the Seleucids, shaping battles and empire-building across the Hellenistic world.

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Beneath the fog of the Dutch lowlands, where windmills turn and canals stretch into the mist, ancient legends still whisper ...

Before monsters haunted screens, they haunted the rivers and hills of Celtic lands. From the Cat-sìth, a ghostly black cat ...

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According to a new report, Universal/Blumhouse and director Lee Cronin's The Mummy reboot has been given a new title, and we ...

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This Halloween, we revisit Rhidian Davis’s reckoning with the gothic’s many monstrous manifestations, from silent film to Hammer horror to Twilight. From our November 2013 issue.