![Christopher Lee](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Christopher-Lee_main-170x120.jpg)
Christopher Lee – or, to afford him his proper title, Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ – was born on the 27th May, […]
![Dracula's Daughter (Universal 1936)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Draculas-Daughter_main1-170x120.jpg)
Dracula’s Daughter, Universal’s first follow-up to their original classic monster success story, was released on the 11th of May, 1936. A sequel to the […]
![The Return of the Vampire (Columbia 1944)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Return-of-the-Vampire-The_03-main-170x120.jpg)
More Victoria Wood than victorious vampire flick, The Return of the Vampire was also the return of Bela Lugosi. The ageing star had long […]
![Son of Dracula (Universal 1943)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Son-of-Dracula-18_main-170x120.jpg)
Universal had been keen to make sequels featuring almost all of their classic monsters. Frankenstein’s Monster, the Mummy and the Wolf Man had all […]
![Horror of Dracula (Hammer 1958)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Dracula-Hammer_main_Horror-170x120.jpg)
When Hammer released their production of Horror of Dracula on 8th May, 1958, they redefined not only Bram Stoker’s iconic novel, but also the […]
![Bram Stoker](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Bram-Stoker_main-170x120.jpg)
Bram Stoker was born Abraham Stoker on 8th November, 1847 in Clontarf, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Although best known for his 1897 gothic […]
![Nosferatu (Prana 1922)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Nosferatu_main2-170x120.jpg)
Although made in 1921, and released in Berlin on the 4th of March, 1922, F W Murnau’s seminal vampire film, Nosferatu, didn’t see the […]