The Fantastic in Art and Fiction Cornell University has cataloged the images that live in our nightmares and darkest fears. Devils and angels -- and the capacity inside each of us for both evil and good -- keep company here with the age-old terrors of possession and the black arts of magic and science. This collection presents a bestiary of mythical creatures, grotesque, dreadful, and fascinating. Freaks, monsters, and bizarre prodigies lurk behind every corner of creepy architecture, straight out of the House of Usher. Macabre and marvelous, these rare historical images are a rich illustration of the dark side of human imagination. (in Alternative Science)
