This Halloween blog reports the results of three polls I conducted to discover the most popular monster of The Big Four. The Sci-Fi community, the science fiction writers community, and Texas Tech students were polled. Poll Results for Favorite Monster Question: Of the BIG FOUR classic movie monsters: Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolf Man and The Mummy—who is […]
Continuing our research into classic movie monsters and the recipe to their success, we reach our final of the Big Four, and my favorite, Wolf Man. Recap The most memorable monsters are continually being resurrected on the big screen, like the current undertaking by Universal to reboot such classic movie monsters as Dracula, The Mummy, Wolf Man, and Frankenstein. […]
While researching for my creating monsters series, it surprised me to learn that The Mummy we know today varies greatly from the original Mummy, not only in name, but in appearance and purpose, as well. Twenty-year-old Jane C. Webb (later she became Loudon) introduced the first fictional mummy in 1827. Her novel — The Mummy: […]
