![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 […]
![Glenn Strange](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Glenn-Strange-main-1-170x120.jpg)
Glenn Strange was born George Glenn Strange in Weed, near El Paso in Texas (now part of New Mexico) on the 16th of August, […]
![Boris Karloff](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Boris-Karloff_main-170x120.jpg)
The English gentleman of the classic horror film, Boris Karloff, was born William Henry Pratt on the 23rd of November, 1887, at number 36 […]
![Bud Abbott](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Bud-Abbott_main-170x120.jpg)
While official wisdom has it that William Alexander ‘Bud’ Abbott was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey on the 2nd of October, 1895, his […]
![Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Universal-International 1948)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Abbott-Costello001_main-170x120.jpg)
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 […]