Born Feb. 5 in mountainous Chur, Switzerland, in 1940, H.R. Giger lived in an idyllic childhood ... phantasmagoria — like that found in Spell IV, above, the painting that served as Necronomicon ...

HR Giger/Courtesy of Taschen A student of Aleister Crowley, Giger put black magic symbols in his work, such as in The Spell II, 1974, featuring the man-goat Baphomet (Credit: HR Giger/Courtesy of ...

Chances are, H.R. Giger has given you a nightmare. The Swiss-born painter was responsible for creating one of the most iconic monsters in the history of the human imagination: the xenomorph ...

This is the oldest skull I have,” the Swiss artist H.R. Giger says ... There's magnificence to the Spell Room, but also evidence that Giger wasn't always the shrewdest judge of his own work.

PAUL ADAMS casts an eye over them and shudders. The Spell II, 1974, HR Giger. Is there a more potent image in sci-fi cinema than the sight of the crashed extra-terrestrial spacecraft encountered ...

Famously, these were part of Giger's original designs which inspired the look of the monster and the alien ships in the first Alien movie. Section of The Spell by H.R. Giger The Alien Queen in the ...

Swiss artist H.R. Giger (b. 1940), who designed the titular monster in Ridley Scott’s Alien, died Monday at age 74. Born in 1940 in Chur, Switzerland, “H.R. Giger grew up in very dark rooms ...

H.R. Giger was the guy who made me sleep with the lights on for years. The iconic Swiss painter and sculptor, who died Monday at the age of 74, reportedly suffered from night terrors for much of ...

H.R. Giger, the Swiss surrealist artist whose works of sexual-industrial imagery and design of the eponymous creature in the “Alien” movies were known around the world, has died. He was 74.

Chances are, H.R. Giger has given you a nightmare. The Swiss-born painter was responsible for creating one of the most iconic monsters in the history of the human imagination: the xenomorph ...

Chances are, H.R. Giger has given you a nightmare. The Swiss-born painter was responsible for creating one of the most iconic monsters in the history of the human imagination: the xenomorph ...