David Barnett

And so too is Hammer horror. Under changed leadership, the studio is releasing new films—and restoring old classics

The genre is surging in popularity thanks to women and outsider voices upending its conventions and tackling the terrors of the present

An annotated 1910 poetry collection by the ‘wickedest man in the world’ holds hand-written equations intended to unlock life

A decision on which actor will next play 007 is eagerly awaited, but the super spy’s creator had some advice on how he should look years before Sean Connery graced the screen

Accusations of ‘role-playing fantasy’ and vandalism at the ancient sites on a Welsh island has turned the air of wonder into an atmosphere of hostility

As his Clacton byelection clash with Nigel Farage approaches, the intergalactic candidate and his mission to take out the trash are being celebrated in an anthology by a host of graphic artists

We speak to the sci-fi genius behind ‘Vurt’, whose latest book transports us to another meta-fictional alternate reality

The hobby has been transformed by young influencers and celebrities seeking not only a retreat from a virtual world, but a way to highlight the plight of the UK’s depleted wildlife

The You’ve Been Framed! presenter’s archive of printed ephemera is inspiring new tales of femme fatales and paranormal terrors

On the tumultuous offline grail quest for the ‘folklore Bible’ of Britain

Two book festivals jostle for the Bradford literati's attention this week

The film director’s latest movie, Rogue Trooper, is an animated adaptation from British comic 2000AD, discovered when his dad was gigging around the world in the 1980s

The BBC has put the show on hiatus. They’d be advised not to try and rush it back

Writer and artist team behind Gigs, a bleak near-future tale where technology has decimated the job market, came up with the idea seven years ago

Becky Burke was about to embark on the trip of a lifetime. What followed was 19 days of hell

The man also known as Vic Reeves has launched an exhibition of his artworks. We met him in situ

Beloved characters reinvented in graphic novel coming later this year – just as interest rockets in all things space

The writer spent 20 drug-fuelled days on the novel that defined the Beat Generation. Superfan Zach Bryan proves it still has gas in the tank, 70 years on

First diagnosis, then chemotherapy, now surgery… and more discombobulating than the swiftness of a successful cancer operation was a stark realisation: some people want to sell off the NHS