When Sean Cassidy, The Banshee, was introduced to the X-Men comic books, he looked like this, as created by Roy Thomas, Werner Roth and Dick Myers in 1967 for X-Men #28. An Irish character, his ...

History's filled with legends and cryptids, and with so many horrifying entities creeping about, it’s hard to know which one ought to scare you most. But if you’re asking us, few warnings could be ...

Whether her name comes from bean-sídhe, (fairy woman) or bean chaointe (keening woman), the banshee is a career woman with a job to do and historian Gillian Kenny advises us to leave her alone to get ...