“There are many legends of bakeneko (monster cats) in Japan. Even long ago, people must have felt that cats are not only cute ...

Based on a mythological creature recorded in several Malay and Indonesian accounts, the WWII-set Orang Ikan makes a bold ...

Eikoh Hosoe, who died on Sept. 16 in Tokyo, was part of a group of avant-garde artists in postwar Japan who were determined ...

In a world filled with Japanese mythological oddball gods and monsters, one of the creatures' free-spirited daughters, Onari, ...

Yet fans immediately began speculating about which classic kaiju might return as either an enemy or an ally to the King of the Monsters. And the following 10 monsters have the best chances of ...

Japanese folklore has been a mainstay in anime for ages. Inuyasha, Natsume's Book of Friends, and Mushishi are some of the ...

Maybe they're not as loud or obvious as the Western ones, but their USP lies in their mystery, lurking quietly in our folklore, waiting to terrify us in ways modern-day CGI-fed monsters never could.

What’s your favorite monster? MPR News guest host Jacob Aloi and guests talk about some of the otherworldly creatures that ...

Party promoters also see it as a way to make money; a recent event called “Scream” was reportedly a great success: Be that as it may, Jamaican folklore is replete with stories of “duppies” (ghosts or ...

Art and supernatural lovers were left spellbound as the ‘Yokai Parade — Supernatural Monsters from Japan’ exhibition ... Pakistani culture as well, like folklore and myths.” ...

including the banshee and púca – but a few lesser spotted monsters from Irish folklore terrify in equal measure. Some monsters from the literature have achieved an iconic status: the vampire ...