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 Written By Ken Hulsey - Photos From My Personel Collection Over the past couple of months, I've shared a few photos from my vast collection of movie and television memorabilia. Starting in October, I've managed to post a total of three photos so far. At this rate, it would take me about 800 years to share the entire collection - far too long for my liking. To speed things up, I've decided to post all the photos I have for the upcoming Svengoolie feature, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Hopefully, this will cut the timeline down to a more manageable 200 years. While one of the stars, Dracula, may be cursed to wander the Earth for eternity, I thankfully have not suffered the same affliction - at least not yet.

Written By: Ken Hulsey The former London Lyceum Theatre manager Bram Stoker is often credited with creating modern vampire lore through his 1897 novel Dracula. However, contrary to popular belief, Dracula was not a successful novel and is not considered an important work in Victorian literature, despite inspiring countless films, TV series, books, and plays. While it is a common notion that Stoker's inspiration for the vampire character was the infamous Vlad III Dracula ("Vlad the Impaler"), most scholars agree this is not the case. Stoker did discover the name "Dracul" (meaning "Dragon") while studying Romanian history, which he used for his vampire character, but the connection ends there. Stoker's main inspirations actually came from earlier vampire stories such as Emily Gérard's "Transylvania Superstitions" (1885), Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla" (1871), John Polidori's "The Vampyre" (1819), and Lord Byro...

Nightwing #58 May 2019 DC Comics Written by Scott Lobdell and Zack Kaplan. Art by Travis Moore and Tamra Bonvillain. Cover by Chris Mooneyham. On Sale For Only $4.19 The Joker's Daughter is back! Or is she? While she wasn't shot in the head like Nightwing, Duela Dent might be facing an identity crisis even more traumatic than Ric Grayson's. Fortunately the new Nightwings are doing their best to protect Blüdhaven-learning as they go-allowing Ric to try to help steer Duela away from the life of a homicidal zealot of the crazy Clown Prince of Crime! 32 pages, full color. Rated T   Nova #18 March 1978 Marvel Comics Story by Marv Wolfman. Art by Carmine Infantino and The Tribe On Sale For Only $4.89 "The Final Showdown!": Guest-starring Nick Fury As Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. continue to fight off the forces of Yellow Claw's tidal weapon, Nova battles Yellow Claw and Fritz von Voltzmann aboard Yellow Claw's dragon craft. During the fight, Nova is blasted by a h...

House of Frankenstein Trailer - Directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, John Carradine, Peter Coe. House of Frankenstein manages to make room for Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, the Wolf Man and a couple of new recruits, the mad scientist (Boris Karloff) and a demented hunchback (J. Carroll Naish). Escaping from prison, Karloff vows to continue his diabolical efforts to emulate Dr. Frankenstein's "eternal life" experiments; he also swears vengeance on the three men (Sig Ruman, Frank Reicher and Michael Mark) who were responsible for sending him to prison. Check Out: Movie Poster and Lobby Cards From The Black Lagoon, The Master Of Suspense and Galaxies Far Away Halloween Movie Trailers: CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954) Mad Monster Party (1969)(Rankin/Bass) Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954)(Universal) Hey There Monster What's Your Sign? Fantastic Photos From Fantasy Films: Bela Lugosi - Dracula The Mummy (19...

 In 1927 a theatrical adaptation of Dracula written by Hamilton Deane and John L., Balderston became a huge hit on Broadway. This play would star the Hungarian born actor Bela Lugosi who didn't speak a word of English. Lugosi learned all his lines phonetically, which produced the famous speech pattern that Dracula (and most vampires) would become associated with.   Bela Lugosi (Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasco ) came to America in the 1920s to pursue an acting career. Even though the actor had starred in several small roles prior, he would always be remembered for portraying Dracula, both on stage and in numerous films. After Dracula became a huge hit the actor was offered the part of The Monster in Frankenstein, which he turned down. Boris Karloff would become famous for the part, and Lugosi's short term as the King of Horror would end as quickly as it started. Lugosi would go on to play Dracula and other various vampires throughout his career. The actor managed to beat a ...

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by Armand Vaquer Bela Lugosi achieved celluloid immortality when he signed with Universal Pictures to play the title character in the 1931 Tod Browning-directed Dracula .   Financially, he was screwed. Lugosi portrayed the vampire king on Broadway to amazing success (amazing, as he was not all that fluent in English at the time, but he mastered the language well enough to no longer need to learn his English dialog phonetically), but he was signed to a contract for a paltry $500 per week for a seven-week shooting schedule.   One wonders what he would have received had he not been the star of the movie! In contrast, David Manners, for his nothing role as Jonathan Harker in the same movie, was given a $2,000 per week salary (Universal also had to pay Jack Warner his loan-out fee for the use of Manners).  Part of this was Lugosi's own fault.  His campaign for the role was interpreted as "desperation" by the Laemmles (Carl Sr. and Jr.) and they to...

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