![George Waggner with Boris Karloff](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/george-waggner-170x120.jpg)
Born George Waggoner in New York City on the 7th of September, 1894, George Waggner attended the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy before serving in […]
![Horror Island (Universal 1941)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Horror-Island_main-170x120.jpg)
Horror Island, released by Universal in 1941, makes the absolute most of its co-stars Dick Foran and Peggy Moran. Known for sparking off one […]
![Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (Universal 1943)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Frankenstein-Meets-the-Wolf-Man_01-170x120.jpg)
Sounding more like comic-book japes than a serious classic monster film, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man is surprisingly good. Anecdotal evidence from screenwriter Curt […]
![The Wolf Man (Universal 1941)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Wolf-Man-The_main2-170x120.jpg)
by Nige Burton To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the true beginning of the horror film, Universal commissioned a new monster. Desperate to find […]
![The Ghost of Frankenstein (Universal 1942)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Ghost-of-Frankenstein-The_main-170x120.jpg)
After the budgetary extravagances of Son of Frankenstein (1939), the new brooms at Universal were determined to play it safe henceforth, despite that film […]
![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 […]