- 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)
- Brides of Dracula, The (Hammer 1960)
- Mark of the Vampire (MGM 1935)
- Dracula AD 1972 (Hammer 1972) – why this much maligned classic is so important
- This Island Earth (Universal 1955)
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 expanded the successful formula of its predecessor, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), sufficiently to include no less than five ‘monsters’. […]
After the budgetary extravagances of Son of Frankenstein (1939), the new brooms at Universal were determined to play it safe henceforth, despite that film […]
Glenn Strange was born George Glenn Strange in Weed, near El Paso in Texas (now part of New Mexico) on the 16th of August, […]
The English gentleman of the classic horror film, Boris Karloff, was born William Henry Pratt on the 23rd of November, 1887, at number 36 […]
While official wisdom has it that William Alexander ‘Bud’ Abbott was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey on the 2nd of October, 1895, his […]
Director Charles Barton’s Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, the first of that famous comedy duo’s encounters with monsters, was released on the 15th of […]
