![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 […]
![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 […]
![Mary Shelley](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Mary-Shelley-170x120.jpg)
Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin on the 30th of August, 1797 in Somers Town, London, and would go on to create one […]
![Frankenstein (Universal 1931)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Frankenstein_main-170x120.jpg)
Frankenstein was not the automatic next choice for Universal despite the unprecedented commercial success of Dracula (1931), and their fortunes remained precarious. In addition to […]
![Peggy Webling](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Peggy-Webling_main-170x120.jpg)
English playwright, novelist and poet Peggy Webling was born in St Martin’s Lane, Westminster, on the 1st of January, 1871. Although much of Peggy Webling’s work […]