![Boris Karloff](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Boris-Karloff-170x120.jpg)
Robert Segedy offers a retrospective on the English horror star’s greatest achievements. The man born William Henry Pratt on November 23, 1887 in Camberwell, […]
![John P Fulton](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/John-P-Fulton_01-170x120.jpg)
John P Fulton was born on the 4th of November, 1902 in Beatrice, Nebraska. Starting his cinematic life as an assistant cameraman, he secured […]
![The Mummy's Hand (Universal 1940)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Mummys-Hand-The_main-170x120.jpg)
By 1940, over at Universal sequels were all the rage. The Mummy’s Hand went into production on the back of successful follow-ups to their […]
![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 Ghoul (Gaumont British 1933)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Ghoul-The_01-170x120.jpg)
The Ghoul was something of a working holiday for the busy Boris Karloff. Fresh from his new found fame and success at Universal, he […]
![The Mummy (Hammer 1959)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Mummy-The_08-170x120.jpg)
Hammer’s 1959 retelling of The Mummy took inspiration from the Universal movies which had gone before, but added a visceral new horror to its […]
![Zita Johann](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Zita-Johann_main-170x120.jpg)
Elisabeth Johann was born on the 14th of July, 1904 in the village of Deutschbentschek, Austro-Hungary, now Timişoara in Romania. Her father, hussar officer […]