![House of Dracula (Universal 1945)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/House-of-Dracula_07_main-170x120.jpg)
House of Dracula (1945) was the natural result of the success of the previous year’s monsterthon, House of Frankenstein. Universal were determined to wring […]
![House of Frankenstein (Universal 1944)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/House-of-Frankenstein_main-170x120.jpg)
House of Frankenstein expanded the successful formula of its predecessor, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), sufficiently to include no less than five ‘monsters’. […]
![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 […]
![Cedric Hardwicke](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Cedric-Hardwicke-170x120.jpg)
Cedric Hardwicke – or, to be more correct, Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke – was born in the English town of Lye on the 19th […]
![Evelyn Ankers](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Evelyn-Ankers-170x120.jpg)
Evelyn Ankers, star of numerous horror movies throughout the 1940s, was born in Valparaiso, Chile on the 17th of August, 1918, to English parents. […]
![Erle C Kenton](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Erle-C-Kenton_main-170x120.jpg)
American director Erle C Kenton, who made more than a passing impression on the golden age of classic monsters, was born Erle Cauthorn Kenton […]
![Holmes Herbert](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Holmes-Herbert_main-170x120.jpg)
British character actor Holmes Herbert was born Horace Edward Jenner on the 30th of July, 1882, in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. It is often believed […]