Of all the mythical medieval beasts that rollocked around in the Dark Ages, the bonnacon (or bonasus and bonacon) has to be the most ridiculous. Legend has it that the bonnacon’s curly horns were no...
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Initially I wanted to present to you a collection of pictures of ropy artist’s impressions of dinosaurs; but when I started searching I came across so many pictures and stories that it sort of mutated...
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After the rip-roaring success of my article on the Statues of Belarus, I decided to spread my wings and flap all the way over to Mongolia to do the same. The stark, lifeless,...
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“Living fossil” isn’t a scientific term, but it is used fairly frequently, especially in the lay media by people like me. For the purpose of this article, a living fossil is a species that...
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The title of ‘vampire squid’ gives this creature of the deep a pretty sinister overtone; and the way it looks certainly doesn’t help its case much either. But does the vampire squid live up...
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I wrote a post about the Owlman of Mawnan recently, if you didn’t catch it, it was about a human sized owl with glowing eyes that appeared in Cornwall in the 70’s. One of the...
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Ivan Solyaev (born in 1985) is a Moscow based graphic designer, illustrator and all round general artist fella. I came across him whilst putting together the Beautifully Grotesque post that went up last...
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I came across the art of Vania Zouravliov whilst I was putting together a post about the macabre and the beautifuly grotesque and I must admit I was taken aback. Zouravliov was born in Russia and was...
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The Macabre And the Beautifully Grotesque is a Facebook page dedicated to just that. It hosts images of ghost-like apparitions, moody people and landscapes and all things cooky. It’s got modern art and photography, but also old photographs...
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