Not a Dead Communist

The next story that we come to is The Curse of Peladon , which features no fewer than four different kinds of alien. Chief among them are th...

The 1E Monster Manual includes several monsters that are essentially animate traps of one kind or another - floors that try to eat you, cei...

The most obvious inspiration for the shambling mound is the DC horror character Swamp Thing, a plant-based monster popular enough to appear ...

The remaining two stories of season 8 are:           The Colony in Space – apart from their leader, the aliens here do not seem very diff...

Although the idea of magical and possibly animate trees does exist in mythology and folklore, the idea of a race of such beings, in the form...

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 ...