- 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)
- This Island Earth (Universal 1955)
- Dracula AD 1972 (Hammer 1972) – why this much maligned classic is so important
- Mark of the Vampire (MGM 1935)
- Them! (Warner Brothers 1954)
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