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Universal had enjoyed huge success with The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925), both starring Lon Chaney, and […]
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Of all our favourite classic monsters, Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera has proved almost as enduring as Dracula and the Frankenstein Monster. Filmed […]
![The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux 1910)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Phantom-front-cover-170x120.jpg)
The first serialised part of the novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, which would become The Phantom of the Opera, was published in Le Gaulois […]
![The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux 1910)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Phantom-back-cover-170x120.jpg)
The first serialised part of the novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, which would become The Phantom of the Opera, was published in Le Gaulois […]
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British actress Heather Sears, best known to horror fans for her performance as Christine in Hammer’s 1962 production of Phantom of the Opera, was […]
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Horror stalwart Herbert Lom was born Herbert Karel Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru in Prague on the 11th of September, 1917 and would go on […]
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Universal’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) had proved immensely successful for both the Laemmles and its star, Lon Chaney. Chaney’s grotesque make-up for […]