As long as there are game designers, there will be well-thumbed copies of Giger's Necronomicon book, and dark ideas for monsters that don't really come from outer space but from ourselves. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. As you may or not know, I have been sorting through boxes of books that have been collected by me and fam over the last decade or two, and I am desperately trying to thin the collection. The 12th century parish church in Paisley, Scotland, had undergone renovations in the 1990s, in which destroyed gargoyles were replaced by new sculptures. Giger’s work, Satan I , appeared as the cover of the famous album To Mega Therion by the Swiss metal band Celtic Frost.

Satanistic inspirations, deformed bodies, the free union of eroticism and decay – if the pop-culture mainstream did not numb us to it, its sub-genres definitely have: from the metal subculture, through cyberpunk, ending at body horror. In it, reproduction is also connected with violence – not only towards the creature being birthed, as mentioned before, but also the one which gives birth and is therefore a “host”.His art visualised the human-machine interfacing of cyberpunk, and it saw the crossover as one of sexual rather than intellectual-technological coupling. Aside from the Alien movies, Giger has worked on numerous films including Dune, Poltergeist II, Species, and others. While the drawings were intriguing and fascinating, and the various articles interesting, the rest of the written information was extremely poorly written. R. Giger’s works – his style is often described as “biomechanical”, and one of the albums of the Swiss author was titled Biomechanics.

P. Lovecraft’s writing in which an early-medieval grimoire of the same name can be found; it is a madness-inducing culture book full of forbidden knowledge – as an aside, Lovecraft had to explain that he had invented the tome on numerous occasions. In his works, elements of architectonic education can be noted – monstrous interiors and churning half-mechanical bodies possess certain elements of a gothic cathedral: a kind of exaltation and majesty.

The artist HR Giger, who has died after a fall in his Zurich home, only worked directly on two computer games – the horror adventure Dark Seed and its sequel – but his influence over the medium cannot be overstated. Titles like Argus Press Software's 1984 strategy game, Alien, and Electric Dreams' 1986 shooter, Aliens, revelled in the opportunity to terrify players with Giger's hyper-sexualised creation, playing on the fear and tension inherent in the movies to dramatic interactive effect. Although there is an emphasis on his later work for most of the book, there are some wonderful pieces from his earlier years that are primarily created with ink and traditional techniques, as opposed to his later airbrush work.