![Jack P Pierce](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Jack-P-Pierce_main-170x120.jpg)
Monster make-up maestro Jack P Pierce was born Janus Piccoula, on the 5th of May, 1889, in Valdetsyou, Greece. Immigrating to the United States […]
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Universal’s first full moon foray into the world of the luckless lycanthrope came with their Werewolf of London, released on the 3rd of June, […]
![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 […]
![The Mummy (Universal 1932)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Mummy-The_22_main-170x120.jpg)
The resounding success of both Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931) was a natural catalyst to encourage Junior Laemmle to invoke another prime time monster. […]
![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 […]