A giant mushroom towers over a blasted landscape. A rampant octopus performs otherworldly semaphore with improbably knotted tentacles. A solitary eyeball (or planet?) spins in a grey void.

The Drawings of Victor Hugo at the Royal Academy review : 'unnerving' - 3/5 Victor Hugo was a prolific artist as well as a towering author and poet, but his strange work is more interesting and unnerv ...