the words and worlds of John Robinson
The town of Visaria may no longer boast the talents of Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein, but it does now count among its denizens one Dr. Franz Edelmann. Edelmann is presented with a unique challenge when none other than Count Dracula (John Carradine) shows up on his doorstep late one night. The Count has come not to …
Thanks to a well-placed strike of lightning, Gustav Niemann no longer has to sit around, rotting away in prison. The storm destroys the walls and he and his assistant, Daniel, a hunchback, make their escape. Niemann, a scientist, was incarcerated because his experiments were considered crimes against humanity. He and Daniel hightail it into the …
Four years after he was beaten to death by his dear old dad, Larry Talbot-- sufferer of lycanthropy-- is about to have his resting in peace disturbed. Two thieves break into the Talbot family crypt to steal valuable jewels supposedly buried with Larry. What they find is Larry looking as pink-in-the-cheeks as the day he …
What do you do when a particular family has rained havoc and death down upon your town? As a responsible(?) village collective, you try your best to eradicate every trace of them from the map. Feeling the Frankensteins have given their town nothing but the sorriest of legacies and have been nothing short of a …
“The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.”― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice Baron Von Wolf Frankenstein is not only the coolest name in the history of the universe (sorry Septimus Pretorius), but it is the name of Henry Frankenstein’s son. Henry was the one who created a certain …
Call us naïve, but in 1993 when my cousin and I went to the theater to see Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, we both thought Jason would actually be in hell fighting demons or doing something in the netherworld. As it happened, the only people who were in hell were us because the …
For forty-four years I have loved the Universal Monsters (that's right, I'm gonna say since birth). Even before I had seen Gill-man’s movie, I liked the character. The same goes for the Phantom (although I liked his movie less than the others, I respect its place in the franchise-- the best version will always be …
Noted archeologist, Dr. Gustav Zoomer, has located the remains of the mummy of Klaris in the deserts of Egypt. Klaris was the guardian of the tomb of Princess Ara. Along with the mummy, Zoomer has in his possession Klaris’s medallion which gives the directions of where to find Princess Ara’s treasure. Zoomer relates all of …
Kharis, the mummy, is back in The Mummy’s Curse and he’s...he’s still played by Lon Chaney, Jr., and he gets up to his old tricks in the last of Universal’s classic mummy monster movies. At the end of The Mummy’s Ghost, we last saw Kharis carrying Amina into the swamp as he was being pursued …
Andoheb, whom you may remember survived being gunned down in The Mummy’s Hand and died, again for the first time, I think (I honestly can’t remember by this point) after passing on the title of High Priest to Mehemet Bey in The Mummy’s Tomb, is back at it once more in The Mummy’s Ghost. In …
Curio Macabre 