Not a Dead Communist

Xorns are an original creation of D&D, with no particularly obvious antecedents. The name was almost certainly chosen so that the 1E Mon...

Moving on to season 8: ·         Terror of the Autons features one of the key races I covered at the start ·         The Mind of Evil ...

Salamanders are, of course, real creatures - long-tailed amphibians with a vaguely lizard-like appearance. The Ancient Greeks and Romans att...

Ifrit are a type of demon in Islamic folklore, associated with the jinn, and in some cases having similar powers (such as the ability to gra...

While the story Inferno is best remembered for the alternate-history sections, it does also include monsters. Never named on-screen, they a...