- 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)
Wesley Earl Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio on the 2nd of August, 1939. Studying English, psychology, philosophy and writing, he moved into the […]
A native of London, John Gilling was born on the 29th of May, 1912. At just 17 years of age he quit his job […]
The descendant of a family of barons, Ingo Clemens Gustav Adolf Freiherr von Wangenheim was born in Wiesbaden, now part of Germany, on the […]
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 […]
Born in Fort Pierce, Florida on the 23rd of November, 1930, Ricou Browning grew up in nearby Jensen Beach and soon developed an aptitude […]
Willis Harold O’Brien was born on the 2nd of March, 1886 in Oakland, California. He took on a variety of jobs including working as […]
Patricia Betsy Hrunek was born on the 1st of November, 1926 in East Chicago, Indiana. Graduating from the Goodman School of Drama, she quickly […]