I grew up in a house full of books. Not adventures or romances, but enormous, glossy art tomes. They were often so heavy I could barely lift them (not that that ever put me off). In the largest, glossiest tome, there was one page I turned to again and again: Francisco Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son. In it, a wild-eyed man grasps what appears to be a child with both hands and tears at their flesh. The painting terrified and fascinated me in equal measure – and still gives me the heebie jeebies today.

This Halloween, I asked seven of our experts to describe the painting that haunts them. From smiling spiders to twisted fairy tales, their picks are the stuff of nightmares.

Goya wasn’t the only thing to keep my younger self up at night – dinosaurs did their part too. But the discovery of a precious-sounding “mini T rex” – Nanotyrannus to use its proper name – might just cure that fear. Don’t be fooled by the “nano”, though: at 700kg it was still the size of a polar bear.

When November 1 rolls around, many of us will toss out leftover Halloween sweets. But while we feel guilty about wasting food, it may be the plastic wrappers we should really worry about. So why do we react much more strongly to edible waste? According to these researchers, the answer lies in how each act of wastage is morally framed.

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