Monsters in Love

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“La Vendetta di Frankenstein” Vampirissimo vol. 3, #5 (Italy 1974)

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Poster for Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920).

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Lon Chaney & Mary Philbin The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

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From a poster for Hangover Square (1945).

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Day the World Ended (1955)

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Luc-Olivier Merson illustrates Esmeralda’s rescue in an 1889 edition of Notre-Dame de Paris.

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Get a load of this goof. I think the woman’s cowering just to be polite.

Astounding Stories (Jan. 1931)

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Stark Mad (1929)

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The makers of Drácula (1931) would come in each night, watch the footage that the other crew had filmed for the English-language version that day, and try to outdo them.

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An incubus departs through the window on his night-mare.

L'Incubo Abbandona il Giaciglio di Due Fanciulle Dormienti (Henry Fuseli, 1793)

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Maritime mansploitation.

The Beyond #21 (July 1953)

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A third go at adapting The Lodger to film (1944)—this one starring Laird Cregar, another brilliant actor who was himself a bit of a tortured soul.

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“Une Bourgeoise et une Veuve" from Guyot Marchant’s La Danse Macabre des Femmes (1491).

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Poster image for King Kong (1933).

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The Man Who Laughs (1928)

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Cover detail from the Spring 1942 issue of Planet Stories.

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Richard Arlen & Kathleen Burke Island of Lost Souls (1932)