| The Monsters I Grew Up With |
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| Boris Karloff |
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| FRANKENSTEIN |
| FRANKENSTEIN 1931 |
| Doctor Frankenstein trying to give his monster life in the famous stone towered laboratory. |
| Frankenstein with the little village girl! |
| My picture of Monster Frankenstein that sits in my foyer. |
| Frankenstein 1931 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 Son of Frankenstein 1939 The Mummy 1932 |
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| What a setting in that churchyard to begin with. The sobbing woman, the first plod od dirt on the coffin. That was a pretty chill. Frankenstein and the dwarf stealing the body out of the newly made grave, cutting the hanged man down from the gallowswhere he swung creaking in the wind. The cunning of Frankenstein in his mountain laboratory, picking the dead men apart and building up a human Monster, so fearful, so horrible that only a half crazed brain could have devised. And then the murder! The little child drowned. Henry Frankenstein himself thrown from the top of the burning mill by the very monster he created. And it was these fragile white fingers that penned the nightmare. |
| Frankenstein....a creature created of cadavers out of rifled graves. |
| The Frankenstein Monster was the biggest star of Universal Studios in the mid 30's. |
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| Everyone remembers the ending of Frankenstein as the villagers watch the Monster burn in the old mill. But things of this nature NEVER DIE! |
| In "Bride of Frankenstein" with emphasis on a musical score for a dramatic entrance, the creatures hand and arm first appear from behind a wooden beam in the old abandoned mill |
| that has not been touched since the fire. Finally the monster steps fully into view from the shadows with grotesque electrodes at the neck and a flat square head and a face scarred by the fire. |
| a James Whale production 1935 |
| Mary Shelly |
| The Lady Behind It All |
| Spending a weekend at Lord Byron's Villa Diodatic on Lake Geneva in Switzerland, it is a dstormy dark night as thunder crackles. Joined by Lord Byron are his friends poet Perry Shelley and his 19 year old wife, Mary. |
| Mary claims of her unpublished novel, arguing that it is more than a story about a mad scientist and his monster. She claims it was a philosophical consideration of a man who defied God's natural laws and sovereignty by daring to creat life. Mary had problems getting this novel published because most claimed it was just to shocking for the times. But Mary was confident that it would get published, her selling point that she simply wrote a story of moral issue. The punishment that befill a man who dared to emulate God. |
| "Frankenstein" written in 1916 |
| The Mummy 1932 |