- Aurora Monster Models – turning every boy’s dream into a nightmare!
- Johnny Eck – the famous Half-Boy from Freaks
- Lon Chaney Jr
- Maria Ouspenskaya, the Russian actress who became The Wolf Man’s iconic Gypsy Woman
- Creature from the Black Lagoon (Universal 1954)
- Werewolf of London (Universal 1935)
- Mark of the Vampire (MGM 1935)
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- Brides of Dracula, The (Hammer 1960)
- This Island Earth (Universal 1955)
Born in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) on the 11th of November, 1918, Peter Knego found himself under pressure from his navy captain father to […]
Peter Cushing, OBE, was born Peter Wilton Cushing on the 26th May 1913, in Kenley, Surrey, England. Finding fame on both sides of the […]
Ghost story and horror author Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes was born on the 30th of May, 1919. A number of his short works were adapted into […]
Born in Albert Lea, Minnesota on the 29th of April, 1912, Richard Dutoit Carlson studied at the University of Minnesota and earned a Master’s […]
American stage, film, television and voice-over actress Virginia Christine was born Virginia Christine Ricketts on the 5th of March, 1920, in the small Iowa […]
Wesley Earl Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio on the 2nd of August, 1939. Studying English, psychology, philosophy and writing, he moved into the […]
