Children of the Night timeline 1921-1949

1921

Visaria Ygor and Henry Frankenstein's Monster travel to the

laboratory and home of Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein, hoping Ludwig will

finish the job of recharging the Monster that his older brother, Wolf, had

begun. Once there, Ygor gets a new idea, or dare I say, changes his

mind, when he convinces Ludwig's assistant, Dr. Bohmer, to transfer

Ygor's own diabolical brain, along with his heart, into Henry

Frankenstein's Monster.*

This was accomplished, resulting in the death of Dr. Ludwig

Frankenstein and the destruction of his house and laboratory. The

Monster/Ygor seemed to have perished with Ludwig in the inferno of the

laboratory, but later evidence shows that he fell through the burning floors

into the frozen Alpine caverns below.**

Elsa Frankenstein, Ludwig's daughter, moves to Vienna after these

tragic events. Dr. Bohmer, who during these events received a severe

electric shock, goes quite mad. Bohmer takes the brain and heart that

were removed from Henry Frankenstein's Monster and flees.

Somewhere around this year, a brilliant but grieving scientist named Dr.

Barton Clervel (who had just lost his beloved wife to natural causes)

somehow came into possession of both the notes or journals of one of the

Frankenstein clan, as well as some of the chemical composition used to

bring their artificially created humanoids to life (possibly a variant of the

infamous 're-agent' formula created by Dr. Herbert West I).*** With these,

Dr. Clervel created his own man-made monster to give himself the son his

departed wife never did. Upon bringing the powerful creature to life,

Clervel aptly named his "son" Child, as the creature was given the head

and brain of a very young boy, and the scientist deliberately kept his

creation at a very juvenile level of mental and emotional development so

that his "little boy" would never leave him.

Child grew up happily with his "father" at their secluded country home on

Bluecherry Mountain sequestered in the New England area of the USA

for nearly two decades, with Clervel gradually aging into infirmity but his

synthetically created "son" remaining the same both physically and

mentally over the intervening years. When the now wheelchair-confined

Clervel was senselessly murdered by the now adult son of his late best

friend whom he rented his mansion over a business matter, Child found

himself suddenly alone, and he then proceeded to embark upon his brief

and very ill-fated sojourn into the world beyond Bluecherry Mountain.****

By this point in time Dracula-Orlox had moved to a rural area of

southern Poland. The villagers wisely lived in great fear of the bizarre

vampire in their midst, and they dubbed him "Schreck," a German term for

"Fright" or "Terror." Prof. Ivan Ronald Schablotski explained:

"As such, he became confused with actor Friedrich Gustav 'Max' Schreck

by Director F. W. Murnau when the latter made his classic film

NOSFERATU..."*****

* This was obviously not part of Dracula's master plan, but Ygor's twisted

reasoning must have thought it best.

** See Erle C. Kenton's file THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN.

*** The first Dr. Herbert West's story was told in the novella "Herbert West,

Reanimator" by H.P. Lovecraft.

**** The tragic saga of Child was told in the two files compiled by agents

Richard Corben and Greg Potter, published by James Warren in his

magazine Eerie issue #'s 57 & 58, and concluded in a third file compiled by

agents Richard Corben and Budd Lewis in Eerie #60. These published

files were reprinted by James Warren in Comix International issue #'s 1, 3,

and 4. Child's saga was indexed and analyzed in detail by Prof. Michael

Nero here.

***** See Steven Katz's file SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE. Thank you to

Prof. Ivan Ronald Schablotski for uncovering this important bit of info.

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1923

Visaria Satanic architect Hjalmer Poelzig builds the Science Palace in

the outskirts of Visaria.

London Dracula-Lejos is revived by a descendent of R.N. Renfield. He

begins his revenge against old foes by seeking out Jon Quincy Harker

and his sister Lucy Weston,* the children of Jonathan and Mina Harker.

Jon Quincy happens to be engaged to Dr. Seward's daughter Mina,

named after his friend and old flame.

Jon Quincy and Mina Seward were never told of their parents' horrific

tribulations at the hands of Dracula-Prime. Dr. Seward was mesmerized

by Dracula-Lejos into forgetting his previous encounter with Dracula-

Prime. Dracula-Lejos then proceeds to turn Lucy into a full vampire.**

Prof. Leyland Van Helsing journeys to England to assist Quincy.

Together they stake the Prince of Darkness and believe him destroyed.

Lucy Weston was last seen wandering through the London night, and her

current whereabouts are unknown.***

Not long after these events, Countess Marya Zeleska leaves Castle

Dracula and journeys to London to find the corpse of the Lejos soul

-clone.

Marya wishes to make London her home. She reduces the body of her

father to ashes so that she can exist with out her dark sire's scrutiny.

Her accompanying minion Sandor, however, was given instructions by

Dracula-Prime to return the Lejos Clone's corpse to the unmarked grave

where he was buried in 1918 by Prof. Sanders and Lady Jane Ainsley.

Sandor transforms the ashes back into a corpse and carries out his true

master's wishes. The Star Stone ring is later returned to Transylvania.

Soon Marya and Sandor find themselves in a battle with Professor

Leyland Van Helsing and Dr. Jeffrey Garth, which is waged from the

streets of London all the way back to Castle Dracula.****

Shortly after this, one of Dracula-Lejos' initial victims in England, Mina

Seward's friend Lucy Weston, who managed to escape being slain by

Leyland Van Helsing, is discovered by Dracula-Prime. Infatuated with

the "true" Lord of Vampires, she eagerly becomes one of his concubines,

one whom the Count would later find a very interesting use for.

* Nee Harker, the surviving Harkers refuse at this point to inform the

League of the details of Lucy's husband.

** See Prof. Dennis Power's article, Best Fangs Forward for more

light on how Lucy was part vampire from birth.

*** See file for DRACULA by agent Garret Fort. Like agent Sangster, Fort

added elements from Bram Stoker's similarly named report Dracula to fill in

the gaps he had no knowledge of.

**** See agent Garret Fort's file DRACULA'S DAUGHTER.

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1924

London A year after defeating Count Dracula-Lejos and Countess

Marya Zaleska, Prof. Leyland Van Helsing, Dr. John Seward, Jon

Quincy Harker, and Dr. Jeffrey Garth form the League of

Anti-Diabolists.

Prof. Leyland Van Helsing and Dr. Jeffrey Garth

They are soon joined by Prof. Emil Lazlo and Maxwell and Helena

Porter Summers.

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1925

Countess Marya Zeleska (Dracula-Lejos' daughter), not content to be a

pawn in her father's plans for world domination, sets her own schemes

into motion to rule over all humankind.

She transformed the Hungarian Dr. Janos Mikelhov into her groom-slave

and entered society as his wife, Wandessa Mikelhov.

The Countess, gathering information through dark and shuddery means,

learned of the existence of a werewolf that seemed to be suitable for her

campaign.

The lycanthrope turned out to be the German-Pole, Count Imre

Wolfstein.

Visaria Hjalmer Poelzig welcomed Dracula-Lejos to the Science

Palace as his guest, in the hope of making him an ally.

Dracula-Mordante, having been revived by unknown means since his

ill-fated conflict with Judex circa 1919, finds himself motivated by both

extreme guilt over his evil acts as well as love, attempts to redeem himself

for his responsibility over Lucy Westenra's death by finding occult means

to summon her ghost. During the course of this venture, he encounters

and battles Harry Houdini, who destroys him.*

* See Martin Powell's file Ghosts of Dracula, published by Eternity

Comics.

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1926

Inspector Krogh, with his marvelous gadget arm, joins the League of

Anti-Diabolists.

Soon after joining, he meets, falls in love with, and marries an American

woman named Amy Parish.*

Birth of Jonathan Morris, the son of John Morris and grandson of

Quincy Morris.

* Parish might not be her real surname, but for one reason or another the

Van Helsing family will not reveal who her parents were.

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1927

Harrisonville, New Jersey Dracula-Latos is revived and travels to

Harrisonville with plans to form an alliance with a vampire-witch known

only as Sarah. The two scheme to make their way to the vampire colony of

Purgatory in Arizona.Dracula-Latos uses the guise of Count Czerny

during this mission, but is thwarted by detective Jules de Grandon.

De Grandin discovers a file on one of Dracula-Latos' other aliases,

Count Lajos Czucron, and makes the connection to Czerny. De Grandin

destroys both Dracula-Latos and the vampire-witch Sarah.*

De Grandin would not make the connection of this case to Dracula till

years later, when conferring with the Van Helsings. The corpse of

Dracula-Latos was, of course, secretly sent back to Castle Dracula

following the failure of this mission, and put back into storage.

Germany Marya Zeleska and her husband, operating under the identities

Dr. Janos and Wandessa Mikelhov, make plans to visit Castle

Wolfstein, but before they arrive, Imre Wolfstein is slain by his own wife

with a silver dagger.

Marya's plans foiled, she decides to have her spies keep a close watch on

Imre's sons Heinrich and Helmut.

Matthew Van Helsing is born to Lorimar Van Helsing and an unnamed

mother.

* See Seabury Quinn's file The Man Who Cast No Shadow.

For a timeline on Jules de Grandin's career provided by Profs. Matthew

Baugh and Rick Lai, click HERE.

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1929

Young detectives Frank and Joe Hardy encounter a being who might be

Dracula-Prime or one of his soul-clones.

Reports of this event are sketchy at this time, but Prof. Matthew Baugh is

conducting research on this matter, and may provide details at a later date.

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1930

Birth of Conrad Van Helsing to Lorimar Van Helsing and an unnamed

mother (possibly the same maternal parent of Matthew Van Helsing).

During this year, an unknown member of the Frankenstein clan, obviously

working from the notes or journals of one of his ancestors who specialized

in the science of creating artificial organic life, created and brought to life a

man-made monster who greatly resembled the other man-made creatures

from the original Frankenstein Monster onwards in both form and

physical power.

This Monster, evidently having a crafty but completely addled and

psychotic mind, escaped the control of his creator and went on a wanton

killing spree when not hiding from humanity in seclusion. The Creature

was often identified by various reports and chroniclers as the

"Frankenstein Monster" for the above reasons, and like most of the

copycat flesh golems to follow Victor Frankenstein I's initial creation, he

has been mistaken for the original Monster.

Guilt-ridden by his destructive creation, this member of the

Frankenstein clan adopted a young boy named Dennis "Denny"

Dunsan, whose parents were slaughtered by the Monster. Determined to

gain absolution, this alleged member of the Frankenstein clan had

Denny trained to the peak of physical perfection so that he would be able

to fight and destroy the Creature when he achieved young adulthood.

Growing into a formidable young man due to these many years of

intensive training, Denny took on the nickname of "Bulldog Denny" and

battled the Monster several times, but with "mixed results."*

While attempting to abscond with a mystical artifact that possesses

life-restoring powers that was kept at a certain museum holding ancient

Egyptian memorabilia, Dracula-Lejos runs into the powerful but

emaciated Egyptian sorcerer Imhotep I,** who a few years earlier had

been inadvertently revived from a mummified state where his soul was

cursed by ancient magicks to be trapped within for eternity as punishment

for his vile ways. As it happened, Imhotep was looking to steal the same

artifact for purposes of his own, and this presented a conflict between the

two mighty beings.

A battle between the two ensued, which lasted for several minutes before

Dracula-Lejos, morphing directly from mist form into wolf form, managed

to leap past Imhotep's impressive magickal defenses and bite one of his

hands off. Winning the battle but not killing Imhotep, Dracula-Lejos

purloined the object, saying that since he had no real quarrel with the

sorcerer, he would return the object to him after he had made full use of it

himself.***

This year Wesley Sharp began his career as the masked vigilante known

as the Bat in New York City after a year traveling around the world and

picking up the necessary training and equipment. His inspiration to

become a crimefighter was due to his outrage over having witnessed the

murder of prominent New York figure Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha

by an armed criminal called Joe Chill, which happened right in front of

their young son, Bruce.

While on his first mission as the Bat, the crimefighter was startled to see

Dracula-Prime appear before him and offer him a ring that he said, when

worn with a certain amulet, would bolster the vigilante's life force and

make him become stronger and more resistant to injury than a normal

human. Sharp was only too happy to increase his confidence and

efficiency on the streets by accepting the ring, an inferior but still potent

version of the Star Stone ring that has been dubbed the Infinity Stone

ring (Sharp already owned the amulet), and he donned it immediately

upon accepting it.

The reason for the Vampire Lord's seeming generosity was actually the

goal of testing the Infinity ring, which he had made with with a tiny

fragment of the Star Stone that was enhanced by the power of the

enchanted amulet he pilfered from the museum during his battle with

Imhotep the Mummy. He wanted to test the efficacy of the ring to see if

he could use it to create soul-clones of a sort who did not have to feed on

blood, despite the lesser level of power they would receive than the usual

soul-clone. He thought the regular danger that a vigilante like Sharp

routinely faced made him the ideal individual to give it such a test run.

* See Dick Briefer's lengthy series of reports chronicled in various

issues of Prize Comics (between issue #'s 7-52) from 1940-1945, and later

Frankenstein #18-33 from 1953-1954, both published by Crestwood

Publications. These reports have since been reprinted in various tomes

published by Dennis Drukentis from 1999 onwards.

** The full story of Imhotep I was chronicled in Karl Freund's and John L.

Balderstein's report THE MUMMY (not to be confused with another file of

the same name composed in the 1990s, and featuring a descendant of the

original Imhotep who was similarly powerful and evil, and suffered a similar

fate).

*** See Prof. Anton Griffin's file "Dracula vs. the Mummy," and published in

Scary Monsters Magazine #52, reprinted in The Midnight Shadow

Show: Prof. Griffin Journals.

In Prof. Win Scott Eckert's enormous tome Crossovers: A Secret

Chronology of the World Volume 2, he conjectured that the events seen

following the prologue sequence in THE MUMMY took place in 1932,

happening concurrently with the events of the movie. Since Imhotep

appeared with his hand fully intact later in THE MUMMY, and he likely

possesses the magickal means to regenerate severed limbs, but not in

just a few weeks, I respectfully disagree with Prof. Eckert on the exact date

placement of this story on the chron, and have thereby moved it to two

years earlier on this timeline. I have mostly stuck to the excellent

framework that Prof. Eckert has established, however.

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1931

Birth of Kurt Van Helsing to Lorimar Van Helsing and an unnamed

mother (possibly the same maternal parent of Matthew and Conrad Van

Helsing).

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1932

Marya Zeleska, as Wandessa Mikelhov, turns Helmut Wolfstein into her

husband-pawn.

Although Helmut does not seem to carry the lycanthrope affliction, she

finds his scientific knowledge useful.
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1933

Llanwelly Upon the death of his twin brother* John Talbot Jr, Lawrence

Stewart Talbot returns to Talbot Castle in Llanwelly, Wales.

Talbot purchases the Wolf'sHead cane that somehow wound up in a

small Llanwellian shop. Having no idea of its purpose, he uses it as a

novelty cane. Later, he slays Bela Blasko after being bitten by him.**

Talbot, to his horror, becomes a werewolf. He finds a friend in Maleva, the

gypsy who seeks to help him, but in the end is apparently slain by his own

father, who uses the Wolf's Head scepter as the instrument of death.

John Talbot dies of grief soon afterwards.***

During these events, the body of John Talbot Jr. is exhumed from the

Talbot family tomb by agents of Dracula-Prime and transported to Castle

Dracula. Dracula-Prime turns John Jr. into a soul-clone named

Grodimn, and bestows upon him the Star-Stone ring.****

While on the lam from the law, the notorious gangster couple Bonnie and

Clyde encounter either an unidentified Dracula soul-clone, or an evil

vampiric being who took on the mantle.*****

* Recent evidence shows that John Talbot Jr. was himself a werewolf

and was originally killed when shot by hunters mistaking him for an animal.

This fact shows that Dracula-Prime might have had an easier time making

a soul-clone out of a creature already tainted with Undead blood.

** See Curt Siodmak's file THE WOLF MAN.

*** New information reveals that Bela was by no means completely

destroyed. Bela secretly recovered and left Llanwelly, with the Wolf'sHead

cane in his grasp.

**** It must be noted that it has been a closely guarded secret that

Lawrence Stewart Talbot was not the first, nor the last, member of this

family to be afflicted with the werewolf curse, but certain textual references

provide clues to the connection between the Talbots and lycanthropy.

One such example is found in an excerpt from Prof. Summerlee's twenty

volume set Poppycock, Twaddle and Balderdash (published

1889), which reads thusly...

Prof. Dennis Power, following up on my research, has discovered even

darker truths behind these matters.

Prof. Power, using his keen talent for delving into secret and forbidden

genealogies, has unveiled a family connection between the Talbots, Rex

Rufus, the Aztec Werewolf Mummy, Leon Carrida, Anthony Rivers,

Wilfred Glendon, Count Inre Wolfstein, Waldamer Daninsky, and

Dracula-Lejos' servant Andreas.

This revelation, however, is only scratching the surface. Prof. Power's

article Hyde and Hair Part 2 shows that this bloodline has been

producing lycanthropes longer than our researchers could have ever

dreamed, and brings to light the cause of this terrible affliction.

Prof. Power's article from start to finish is now required reading for all

MONSTAAH agents.

***** See Timothy Friend's file BONNIE AND CLYDE VS. DRACULA.

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1935

Bonaport, La Dracula-Grodimn travels to Dark Oaks plantation using

the alias Count Alucard. His goal is to create a colony of vampires

hidden in the swamp lands of North Louisiana (preferring to avoid the

annoying reject soul-clone Lestat, who is located further south).

Dracula-Grodimn's failure in this endeavor comes from two sources.

First, the intervention of Dr. Harold Brewster and League of

Anti-Diabolists member Prof. Emil Lazlo. Secondly, his goal is diverted

by carnal lust for Katherine Caldwell. She is one of the two lovely

daughters of Col. Caldwell, the owner of Dark Oaks plantations.*

Dracula-Grodimn is destroyed in the swamps by the rising sun. The ash

remains and the ring are retrieved by Dracula-Prime's minions and

returned to Castle Dracula.

Soon after these events, Dr. Harold Brewster, with the help of Prof. Emil

Lazlo, founded the Bonaport, La. chapter of the League of

Anti-Diabolists, then headquartered in Dark Oaks, as there were reports

that vampires created by Dracula-Grodimn were still lurking about (and

still are today).

Transylvania Later that year Dracula-Prime has his gypsy minions sell

the skeletal remains of the Latos Clone (with ring) to a traveling sideshow

run by Professor Lampini. The gypsies assure Lampini that this is the

actual skeleton of Count Dracula, and that he must never remove the

stake which is carefully placed where the heart would be. Lampini takes

this story lightly but knows a good attraction when he sees one, so he

takes the skeleton, coffin, stake, and all to feature in his traveling show.

Since all is going according to his plans to have the Latos Clone locate

Henry Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula-Prime returns to sleep.

USA While attending a performance of the popular stage play version of

Dracula starring actor Bela Lugosi as the Vampire Lord, Dracula-

Rominoff decides to kill Lugosi in his dressing room for daring to upstage

his own charisma and eclipsing the Vampire Lord's image in popularity

while portraying him. Unbeknownst to the Lord of the Undead and the

vampire bride he brought along with him to assist him in getting access to

Lugosi, also in attendance was the Rominoff Clone's old enemy, the

demonic vampire Spike and his vampiric significant other, Drusilla. Spike

and Drusilla battle and prevent Dracula-Rominoff and his vampire bride

from killing Lugosi due to Spike's sadistic satisfaction that as long as the

great Hungarian actor continued to live, his upstart performance will be a

major thorn in Dracula-Rominoff's ego (even though it was specifically

Dracula-Lejos whom the Hungarian actor imitated so well in his famous

stage and screen performances).**

* See file SON OF DRACULA by Curt Siodmak.

** See file Spike vs. Dracula by Peter David, reprinted in the Spike

Omnibus, published by IDW Publishing.

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1936

This year, the costumed vigilante known as the Bat (a.k.a., Wesley

Sharp) had what turned out to be his final mission when he was shot

numerous times by a group of gangsters he was pursuing. As a result of

the Infinity ring given to him at the beginning of his career by

Dracula-Prime combining its mystical energies with that of an enchanted

amulet he had acquired in his travels, the energies of these objects

saturated his body at the moment of his death, enabling him to stave off

his demise long enough to hunt down the criminals who shot him and

enact vengeance. After this was accomplished, the Bat resigned himself

to his fate and removed the ring and the amulet, this causing him to

immediately die of the gunshot wounds.

His soul was still temporarily energized, however, and morphing into the

form of a bat that was visible to the average non-psychic human, it seeked

out the now young adult Bruce Wayne, who was home at his mansion

Wayne Manor on the outskirts of Gotham contemplating the methodology

he will use for the crime-fighting career he had spent the last several years

intensively training for to seek justice for the murder of his parents. The

bat spirit-form flew through the window of Wayne's mansion where he was

engaged in contemplation. Seeing the spectral bat enter the window,

Wayne perceived it as an omen, and decided to adopt a disguise with a

bat motif to it for his war on crime, thus soon giving rise to the first hero to

wear the legendary mantle of the Batman.*

After this, it's believed that Wesley Sharp's soul passed into the afterlife,

having fulfilled its mission on the Earth plane. The Infinity ring was soon

recovered by a minion of Dracula-Prime, who would soon be seeking

another mortal to give it to.

* See Rick Shanklin's file The Bat one-shot, published by Apple Comics.

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1937

Llanwelly Lawrence Stewart Talbot is revived when grave looters open

his tomb as the full moon rises. Talbot awakens in a London hospital with

a horrible realization: he cannot die! Talbot escapes the hospital, seeks

out, and finds Maleva.

Talbot asks Maleva for one simple thing: to help him end his wretched

life. The two of them end up journeying to Visaria, seeking the aid of Dr.

Ludwig Frankenstein. Instead, they end up encountering Ludwig's

daughter Elsa and Henry Frankenstein's Monster (with Ygor's brain).

Talbot, as the Wolf Man, fights with the Monster until the castle

laboratory is trampled by a torrent of water released when villagers bomb

the nearby dam.*

* See agent Curt Siodmak's report FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE

WOLFMAN.

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1939

Dr. Wilhelm Victor Von Frankenstein is arrested by the Nazi S.S. and

sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he is tortured and

forced to perform hideous medical experiments on unwilling subjects

(ironically, it is a distinct possibility he was made to work under his distant

relative, Victor III*). After the war, Wilhelm Victor (who tended to go by

his middle name), was left scarred, lame, and terribly embittered by his

own government's treatment of him.**

* It's Prof. Barry Ward's theory, based upon his research, that Victor III may

be the same individual as the "near-immortal original Dr. Frankenstein"

(a.k.a., "Victor Helios"), whose murderous exploits were chronicled in

recent years in a series of reports by Dean Koontz collectively titled

(appropriately enough) Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, beginning with

Prodigal Son.

** See Richard H. Landau's adaptation of Charles A. Moses' report

FRANKENSTEIN 1970. This entry was written up by Prof. Barry Ward

based upon painstaking research on his part.

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1940

Visaria. Dr. Gustav Niemann, the younger brother of the late Henry

Frankenstein’s assistant Karl, escapes from prison with aid of a pitiful

hunchback named Daniel.

Dr. Niemann was imprisoned fifteen years prior for conducting

blasphemous experiments using some of Henry Frankenstein’s notes as

a template (this included the transplantation of a man's brain in the skull

of a dog).

The two fugitives encounter Prof. Lampini and his sideshow wagon on

the road. At Niemann’s bidding, Daniel the hunchback strangles Prof.

Lampini. They steal his sideshow and drive it to Visaria. Once there,

Dr. Niemann revives Dracula-Latos and unleashes him

on the men who sent the evil scientist to prison. Dracula-Latos, however,

meets an untimely end due to the sunrise. Dr. Niemann continues his

quest by traveling to the remains of the late Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein’s

laboratory. In the caverns below he discovers the frozen bodies of

Lawrence Stewart Talbot (In Wolf Man form) and Henry Frankenstein’s

Monster (With Ygor’s brain).

Niemann revives both, and takes them to his old lab in the outskirts of

Visaria. Dr. Niemann's plans to fully charge the Monster, are spoiled

when the hunchback Daniel becomes jealous over the fact that Ilonka, a

gypsy girl he fancies, is in love with Talbot.

Chaos erupts. After morphing into his lycanthrope form,Talbot is shot

with a silver bullet fired by Ilonka, the hand of one who loves him, though

she is seemingly mauled to death in the process.*

Daniel turns on his former master, believing he has betrayed him, and

breaks Niemann's back, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down; the

revived Monster retaliates by killing Daniel. Dr. Niemann and the

Monster (the former's now paralyzed body being carried by the latter)

seem to meet their fate as they sink into a swamp while being pursued by

a mob of enraged villagers.**

Later reports show that the remains of Dracula-Latos were brought back

to Transylvania by the Undead Lord's dark servants. Dracula-Prime did

not consider this to be a wasted mission as, thanks to

Dr. Niemann discussing his plans in earshot of the Latos-Clone, he now

had a clue as to the whereabouts of Henry Frankenstein’s Monster. With

this knowledge, he sets a new plan in motion.

There have been questions as to how the second World War seems to

have little impact on these small European areas, where these events take

place. Supernatural events historian Donald F. Glut postulates that Hitler,

being obsessed with the occult, might have found it prudent to avoid

places where beings such as Dracula, werewolves and man-made

monsters trod.

Gil Tartoff, the final surviving member of his family, succeeds in

uncovering the fact that Dracula is the culprit behind the vengeance-

driven killing of members of his lineage across the globe in ten year

intervals. He then begins an ill-fated mission to track down and kill the

Vampire Lord, which takes a decade to culminate.

* A legendary way to kill a werewolf--which has never proven to be true. It

does, however, seem to put the werewolf into a death-like state, until the

silver projectile is removed.

** See Curt Siodmak’s report HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, not to

be confused with Prof. Mark Brown's article of the same title.
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1942

Visaria A year after his last "death," the insensate body of Larry Talbot is

discovered lying where it was left, with the decayed body of his deceased

love Ilonka still holding the hand of his intact body. Taken to a forensic

surgical unit, a physician named Dr. Zisko surgically removes the silver

bullet from Talbot's heart, theorizing that this was somehow keeping the

strange man they found with no life signs in an unexplained state of

suspended animation.

When the full moon rises that night, the again revived Talbot

metamorphoses into the Wolf Man and escapes from the police hospital,

slaughtering an intern in the process. Talbot then found himself in the

nearby village of Slovno, where he sought out the aid of the local

hangman, Anatole Svenga, in the mistaken hope that he would help kill

him. After becoming Anatole's guest, Talbot not only meet, fell in love

with, and married Anatole's young daughter Yvonne in short order, but

he also met Dracula-Lejos for the first time.

Talbot thus becomes embroiled in the Count's plan to add Yvonne to his

vampiric harem by convincing her father to let him marry his daughter,

while the Vampire Lord poses as a human member of his infamous

lineage who was a psychiatrist. As a result of the conflict resulting from

this incident, Dracula-Lejos and Talbot become arch-nemeses.

When he and Yvonne are being threatened by the Lejos Clone while in

man-bat form, Talbot manages to stake the Dark Lord with a piece of

masonry that had a cross inscribed on it when the Vampire Lord attacks

both of them. Later that same evening, under the next full moon,

Talbot morphs into the Wolf Man again and kills three police

officers who attempt to arrest him in his human form; they believed him

responsible for several murders committed in Slovno by Dracula-Lejos

while in wolf form. The lycanthrope then attempts to slay Yvonne, but he's

thwarted in this attack when his father-in-law shoots him in the chest with

a silver bullet. Reverting to human form just before he expired, Talbot

thanks Anatole, telling him that he would die happy after experiencing a

month of bliss with Yvonne.*

A few months later, Lawrence Stewart Talbot is revived yet again.**

Dr. Peter Drury contacts Talbot, saying he wants to cure him, but really

wants samples of Talbot's blood for use in creating super-soldiers.***

In the meantime, the insensate bodies of Dracula-Lejos and the

Universal Frankenstein Monster are located by agents of the Freon

Corps., where they are put through the Freon Process to preserve them

in a catatonic state. They are then offered for sale on the underground

market to private exhibitors who would pay good money for having

legitimate monster "corpses" to display for paying customers.

During this year, the Axis powers were greatly stepping up their interest in

developing super-soldiers of their own to counter the various programs

conducted or planned by the Allied forces, particularly America and

Britain. To this end, the work of the Frankenstein family became of great

interest to Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, who hoped to obtain the

clan's legendary ability to create powerful flesh golems (i.e., 'man-made

monsters') to serve as unbeatable soldiers. When a group of scholars

working for the government of Nazi Germany uncovered the actual

existence of the Frankenstein family (who were largely believed by the

public to be fictional), the government sent agents to seek out a surviving

member of the clan who inherited the scientific/medical genius and

unbridled ambition possessed by many members of this family who were

directly or indirectly descended from Victor Frankenstein I. They soon

found such an individual sequestered in the family castle extant in a

remote village located in the Swiss Alps (Geneva, Switzerland is the

ancestral home of the Frankenstein lineage). That individual was an

embittered member of the clan known as Dr. Basil Frankenstein.

Basil Frankenstein had indeed inherited both the dreaded genius and

ambition that several members of his clan possessed, as well as the

characteristic preference for operating within one of the remaining

culturally and technologically "backwater" areas of the Balkans. Angry

at the attitude shown towards members of his lineage by the local

population living near the family castle he inherited, Basil attempts to

perfect his ancestors' process of creating synthetic life after locating a

copy of Henry Frankenstein's journal, The Secrets of Life and Death.

However, the creature he pieces together from human body parts taken

from the local cemetary proves as unstable as many who were created in

the past, and Basil is forced to kill it by extreme electrocution after it

returns to the castle following a soiree into the local village, where it

killed several people. However, Basil Frankenstein is severely injured

by the creature in the process, finding himself paralyzed beneath the

waist; further, the full use of his hands are impaired, rendering him

unable to put his surgical skills to use without assistance. These incidents

combine to leave Basil Frankenstein's soul filled with even greater

anger and hatred than before, leaving him ripe for corruption.

While living wheelchair-bound in his castle, Nazi agents who had secretly

entered the neutral country of Switzerland located Basil, and offered to

both fund his further experiments, and provide him with an Axis surgeon of

sufficient skill to act as his "hands" in continuing the work of his family,

provided the fruits of that work be turned to the use of the Axis. The now

thoroughly corrupt Basil Frankenstein eagerly agrees, and is paired up

with the surpassingly brilliant Japanese surgeon Dr. Izuma "Kitty"

Kitamura. Several Nazi soldiers are also assigned to the castle to offer

protection from any threatened reprisals from the villagers. Frankenstein

and Kitamura grow quite close during the following months working

together, quickly falling in love. However, she is frustrated by the fact

that his paralysis renders him incapable of sexual intercourse, so he

promises to make up for this by finding a suitable male body to have his

brain surgically transferred to.

Not wanting to take the chance of their new prototype creature created to

serve as the model for future flesh golem soldiers turning out like the last,

Frankenstein implants a small experimental device designed by Nazi

scientists into the Monster's brain. This implant renders the creature

completely subservient to Frankenstein's verbal commands. This flesh

golem is created with the spare parts of recently dead villagers that

were robbed from the grave by the soldiers during the night. This ghastly

violation of the cemetery is discovered by the villagers, who immediately

correctly surmise the identity of the culprit behind it. The Monster is

successfully brought to life via the use of Victor Frankenstein I's

techniques, and appears to be under the full control of Frankenstein

and Kitamura due to the control implant. When vague reports of Nazi

activity in this area of Switzerland reaches the Allies, two American agents

are sent to investigate, only to end up captives of Frankenstein.

Captain Steve Rogers, the original American super-soldier code-named

Captain America, leads a contingent of "All-Star" soldiers on a covert

mission to the area to investigate the disappearance of these Allied

agents. Alerted to what was going on in Castle Frankenstein after a tense

encounter with a group of villagers bent on storming the fortress, Captain

America marches there ahead of the vigilante squad. Upon sneaking

into the castle, the Captain and his contingent are attacked by

the Nazi soldiers and the will-subverted Monster. At Kitamura's request,

Frankenstein is determined to capture the Captain, whose perfect and

attractive physical body would be the ideal vessel for his brain. The

intelligent Monster's performance is hampered by the fact that the

creature--who has secretly learned to speak both German and English by

observing the humans around him in the castle over the past several

months--did his best to resist the oppressive control he was under.

During the course of the conflict the soldiers are quickly defeated, and

the Monster is slammed into some of the sensitive electrical

equipment. The current of electricity that surges through his body short

out the control device. His will now fully his own, the Monster turns on

Frankenstein and Kitamura, grabbing them and leaping out a window of

the castle that stood over a cliff side at least a hundred feet high.

Captain America's troop insist that the villagers not destroy the castle,

but leave it standing as a monument to the Monster's selfless act of

sacrifice.****

Though his two former masters were almost certainly killed, the

Monster--whom we have designated "Adam Frankenstein Jr.", since he

has recently taken that first name for the same reason the original

Monster has--was merely rendered unconscious after landing in a stream

of water. Though seriously injured, his rapid healing ability enabled him to

fully recover over the course of a few years.

Upon his recovery, he wandered into parts unknown, during

which his great intelligence enabled him to become very

well educated, as he learned to speak English in very articulate fashion.

Though prone to a dangerous temper if threatened, he seems to have

become one of the more benevolent flesh golems to be identified as

as one of the Frankenstein Monster copycats.

It is known that he eventually read Mary Shelley's classic novel, realized it

was actually based on uncomfortable fact, and came to identify with the

original, claiming to be the 'Monster of Frankenstein' to those he has

met. The full range of his exploits and personal experiences between this

year and his next official appearance on the records circa 2011 (see entry

for that year) are not recorded at this time, though it's likely that he has

appeared as the 'Frankenstein Monster' in certain sources that have yet

to be fully officially to him. More research will be conducted in the future to

identify possible appearances of Adam Frankenstein Jr..

* See Bernard Schubert's report The Wolf Man vs. Dracula, which was

written in script form and published by Hollywood Publishing Archives in

Phillip J. Riley's book Wolfman vs Dracula. This preliminary report

compiled by Schubert, like several other reports involving Larry Talbot and

Dracula-Lejos, were written down in script form and intended to be made

into a film interpretation by Universal Studios; however, this movie was

never made for fiscal reasons, and this report involving Larry Talbot's first

encounter with Dracula-Lejos, which began their great mutual animosity,

would have remained largely unknown if not found and published by film

historian Phillip J. Riley.

Some of the details reported by Schubert were incorrect, such as the

statement that Talbot's body had lain insensate for "many years" following

Curt Siodmak's report HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (it was actually but

one year), as well as the mistaken claim that Dracula-Lejos and other

vampires only possessed their fangs while in bat form. MONSTAAH is

quite indebted to Riley for preserving this 'lost' report and making it

available to us. Contrary to common reports, this incident involving Larry

Talbot occurred following the events of the aforementioned report HOUSE

OF FRANKENSTEIN, and not the incident recorded in Curt Siodmak's

other report FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN. What became of

Talbot's wife Yvonne after this, and why he apparently never returned to

her following his subsequent revival, is presently unknown, and one may

wonder whether or not she became pregnant during their month of happy

matrimony; more research needs to be conducted by our experts on the

Talbot genealogy, foremost among them being Prof. Steven Pertwillaby.

** At this time, how this happened is unknown.

*** Drury would later work with the blood of Frank Griffen, a.k.a., the

Invisible Agent. See Jeff Rovin’s report Return of the Wolf Man.

For more information on Dr. Peter Dury and Frank Griffen see Prof.

Dennis Power's article, The Invisibles: The Unseen History of the

Griffin Family.

For more on the Super Soldier Project, see espionage expert Prof. Brad

Mengal's startling revelations HERE.

**** See Don Glut's file "Heil Frankenstein," published in Invaders Vol. 1

#31 by Marvels Comics. Some of the details were clearly altered and/or

exaggerated for publication requirements. Claude Frollo's story was

chronicled in Victor Hugo's file The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (a.k.a.,

Notre-Dame of Paris), which was made into a film file THE HUNCHBACK

OF NOTRE DAME by Perley Poore Sheehan. Many subsequent files

bearing that title and purporting to chronicle Quadimodo's story were

produced, some of which may have been about subsequent members of

Quasimodo's lineage that displayed his specific mutation, and who took his

name and traditional vocation as the isolated, live-in bell-ringer of the

Notre-Dame Cathederal in Paris; if so, then details of such accounts were

greatly altered to make it seem as if they were telling the original

Quasimodo's story. Clyde Freon's grandfather, Mortimer, and his Freon

Side Show were first chronicled in Sean Todd's file "Freaks of Fear,"

published in Psycho #4 by Skywald Comics; his father, Roland Freon, was

first chronicled in Christofer Nigro's file "The Privilege of Adonis,"

published in Tales of the Shadowmen: Esprit de Corps by Black Coat

Press.
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1943

Germany Baron Victor Frankenstein III turns up again in the guise of

Baron Victor von Hammer, now working for the Nazi regime as a

renowned medical doctor and biochemist with the high rank of lesser

General in the SS. He not only had a group of monstrous superhumanly

powerful man-made monsters/flesh golems under his control, but also one

such creature whose appearance resembled that of a powerfully built

"perfect" Aryan man, who accompanied him under the guise of his son,

Franz von Hammer (in actuality, Franz was Victor's personal

bodyguard, main minion, and future intended vessel for his own brain). All

of these flesh golems, including the enhanced human Franz, were

perfectly capable of educated, articulate speech and basic decision-

making abilities, but were completely beholden to the Baron's will.* By

closely studying the mind control powers attributed to certain of the

Hyberboreans, the Baron also found a means to enhance his mental

powers so as to give him the ability to forcibly bend others to his will.

Now more selfishly evil than ever before, the incognito Baron

Frankenstein was simply using his position in the Nazi government to

gain the resources to enable him to journey to a surviving relict version of

the incredibly ancient and hidden kingdom called Hyperborea,** located

on a small frozen atoll called Zhokov Island in the Siberian Sea. This evil

kingdom wielded great mystical and scientific power sufficient to pose a

threat to the entire planet, which Baron Frankenstein coveted for

himself in his scheme to build his conception of a superior world. Having

discovered its ancient and current existence in the course of his arcane

research, Frankenstein sent several of his monstrous flesh golems to

kidnap the curmudgeonly but scrupulous Allied archeologist Prof. Isaac

Levi, who was the only human being living in the 20th century who knew

the location of Hyperborea's relict kingdom other than his daughter and

chief assistant Lise.*** It was the Baron's intention of forcing him to

reveal that secret to him.

This brought the Baron, his synthetic son Franz, his more monstrous

creations, and a contingent of SS soldiers under his command into

conflict with the famed and formidable adventurer called Thunder Jim

Wade and his two regular allies Dirk Mirat and Red Argyle.****

Though Prof. Levi refused to give up this information even under the

threat of torture, he nevertheless agreed to do so once the threats were

extended to Lise. Upon arriving on Zhokov Island and finding the relict

kingdom of Hyperborea, Franz was ultimately defeated in single

combat by Thunder Jim Wade while the latter's allies helped rescue

Lise Levi after her father, Prof. Levi, was unfortunately killed. Baron

Frankenstein himself pit his mental powers directly against that of Loui

the Witch Queen, the extremely old and powerful matriarch of the

Hyberoeans, with the end result being that both were severely injured to

the point of death.

However, Franz escaped capture or destruction and helped move his

father's dying body away from the area. He then willingly complied with

Baron Frankenstein's instructions to allow the latter to escape true

death by using his mental powers to transfer into his son's body while

ejecting Franz's own consciousness (Loui escaped her own demise in a

similar manner; she transferred her consciousness out of her dying,

withered body and into the skull of a young Hyperborean girl).

Shortly after this, Victor Frankenstein III, his consciousness now

controlling the body of his mighty son Franz, was recovered by Hitler's

men, where he revealed that he did indeed manage to purloin a highly

advanced short wave weapon from Hyperborea, though he calculated

that it would take he and his fellow scientific elite at least a decade to

decipher its workings. The Baron, now believed to be Franz von

Hammer by the upper echelons of the Nazi government, was awarded the

rank of Captain by a grateful Hitler himself. He then resolved to study the

Levi notes that recorded the history and whereabouts of Aceron, another

ancient and powerful civilization.*****

* How much control Baron Frankenstein actually exerted over Franz via

his mental powers is unknown, but Franz was at the very least raised to

be completely servile to his father's wishes and needs, even over that of

his own life.

** Hyperborea was likely named after the pre-historic era in which the

original version of the kingdom existed. It was first chronicled in a series

of reports by the master archeo-biographer Robert E. Howard, and

included the time periods in which the legendary barbarian warriors

Conan and Red Sonja lived.

*** Lise Levi has mentioned that one of her mother's relatives was

Inspector Krogh, the European constable who lost an arm to Henry

Frankenstein I's Monster as a child. Despite this, he eventually

distinguished himself by becoming a respected police officer, and later a

monster hunter as a member of the League of Anti-Diabolists.

**** Wade was actually raised as an infant orphan in a different powerful

and advanced relict civilization, that of Minoa, which began as an African

colony of the ancient Greek city-state of Crete. This civilization was long

at war with Hyperborea, and was largely responsible for greatly

reducing their power and threat level to the world over the millennia.

***** See Frank Schildiner's report The New Adventures of Thunder

Jim Wade Vol. 2: The Horror of Hyperborea, published by Pro Se Press.

The first exploits of Wade and his allies were recorded in a short series of

reports by Jim Huttner (under the pen name Charles Stoddard) that were

published circa 1941. Frank Schildiner's research has been busy putting

to paper subsequently unrecorded reports of Wade's adventures, for which

the crew at MONSTAAH are quite indebted.

The training style utilized from early childhood to grant Wade his

extraordinary peak human physical and mental abilities, such as his

inventive genius and drive towards selfless heroic actions, seem similar

to those given to other legendary heroes of the same era, including Jim

Anthony and the most famous of them all, Dr. Clark "Doc Savage"

Wildman. Though this training came from disparate sources, there

appears to be some connection, including the fact that each of these

heroes--whom this author (Prof. Nero) is christening "The Champions of

Bronze"--all appeared during the same two decades, but what that

connection might be, and what lies behind the curious similarities shared

by these heroes, has not yet been subject to careful study.

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1944

London The Lejos Clone is revived when a war time bomb shell

disturbs his unmarked grave. Two grave keepers innocently pull the stake

out of the resurfaced body.

Dracula-Lejos, sans Star-Stone ring, attacks the family of Lady Jane

Ainsley.

Lady Jane Ainsley

Ainsley makes the connection between this vampire and the 16th century

Romanian scholar, Armand Tesla.* Ainsley uses information from Tesla’s

(Lejos) own ancient writings to destroy him.**

For some reason, the report leaves out the contribution by Dr. Anton

Zarnak to this case.*** Ainsley consulted heavily with Zarnak, and he was

there in the shadows, making sure Ainsley’s crusade against Tesla

(Lejos) succeeded.

Rare photo of Dr. Anton Zarnak

Soon after his destruction, the remains of the Lejos Clone are returned to

Castle Dracula, and the Latos Clone is revived (with the Star Stone

ring).

Lady Jane Ainsley joins the League of Anti-Diabolists, and compares

notes with Van Helsing and Harker. Zarnak declines membership, but

lets them know that he always stands ready to assist. Others who, like Dr.

Zarnak, never officially join but lend their expertise when needed include

such luminaries as Dr. Carnaki, Titus Crow, Dr. Henry Vincent , Jules

de Grandin, Judge Pursuivant, and John Thunstone.

Berlin Dr. Bohmer, who was at that time using the alias of Dr.

Riesendorf, is interrupted in his continuing experiments with the brain and

heart of Basil Frankenstein's first Monster by members of Hitler's S.S.

The S.S. officers confiscate the Monster's heart and send it to a lab in

Hiroshima, Japan.****

In late July, the French super-soldier known as the Nyctalope--now

feeling compelled to work for Vichy France--travels on a covert mission to

Berlin unbeknownst to the Nazi regime. His purpose is to rescue noted

French archeologist Aristide Clairembart on behalf of his friend, aviator

hero Robert Morane, who was then battling alongside Charles de

Gualle's Free French resistance movement; the Nyctalope's reluctant

serving of the Vichy government would enable him to enter Berlin and get

out again with far less difficulty than Morane could. However, at this time,

a recently revived Dracula-Prime was also in Berlin, seeking out the truth

behind rumors that Nazi soldiers managed to locate and the procure the

legendary object of immense mystical power known as the Spear of

Destiny.

Since Clairembert was abducted by a small troop of soldiers led by an

S.S. officer named Muller to force him to use his expertise to determine if

a photo of the recovered Spear was the genuine article, the Nyctalope

and Dracula-Prime cross paths. After a very difficult battle, the Nyctalope

manages to rescue Clairembert and drive off the Vampire Lord thanks to

the timely intervention of the dhampiric vampire hunter Quincy Harker,

who was in Berlin attempting to prevent Dracula-Prime from acquiring the

Spear.*****

Transylvania Shortly upon returning to the main Castle Dracula situated

near the Borgo Pass, Dracula-Prime discovers the presence of popular

horror author Sandor Xaviar. The latter doesn't believe that the Dracula

legend is real, but wanted to visit the historical castle to conduct research

for a vampire novel he was planning to compose. Upon acquainting

himself with this curious visitor, the Vampire Lord becomes convinced that

this respected author would make a perfect soul-clone from which to

infiltrate the literary world and the halls of academia, which Dracula was

long curious about due to the horror genre's depiction of him in fictional

tales or accounts of his actual exploits that were believed by the public to

be fiction. He believes the literary and academic world were two

interconnected institutions that he could use to influence public opinion

and perceptions of the Undead in many useful ways.

Hence, Dracula-Prime vampirized Xaviar and used the Star Stone ring to

transform him into a primary soul-clone who we have designated Dracula-

Xaviar (a.k.a., "Dracula-X"). The Xaviar Clone was immediately

dispatched throughout Europe and America while masquerading in his

original human guise. Xaviar's original personality was highly romantic

and passionate, but he lacked sufficient mental strength to resist the

memory and personality implants imposed upon him by Dracula-Prime.

Consequently, he believes he is the real Vlad Dracula who had taken

the guise of a mortal writer whom he killed and "absorbed" his memories

through some psychic means connected to the bite. The natural creative

abilities of his original human persona continued to "leak" into his psyche,

resulting in the continuation of his interest in writing and historical

research, both of which he continued to avidly pursue.

Nevertheless, he remains fully under the control of Dracula-Prime, who

was able to "see" and act through the Xaviar Clone. Through this

soul-clone, he is now able to monitor and create a power base for himself

within the ranks of writers and academics.

Visaria Birth of Waldomer Daninsky to Col. Heinrich Wolfstein and

Czinka Tara the gypsy.

Waldomer Daninsky

Col. Wolfstein was an S.S. Officer who turned his back on the Nazis

during an attempted German invasion of Visaria, all to save the young

gypsy girl, Czinka.

Czinka becomes pregnant by Wolfstein, which angers the gypsy's

brother, Rom.

Rom murders Wolfstein, then slays two of the triplets born to Czinka.

The enormous amount of death and hatred that occurred as a result of

World War II caused the demonic Castlevania construct to appear again

this year, thus leading to yet another deadly revival of the powerful rogue

soul-clone Dracula-Mathias. To counter this menace, an eccentric

homeless priest named Vincent Dorin recruited now 18-year-old

Jonathan Morris and 16-year-old magick expert/scholar Charlotte Aulin,

where they are assisted by the ghost of vampire hunter Eric Lecarde--now

calling himself Wind--who was slain by the ancient vampire Brauner. Now

allied with Dracula-Mathias was Brauner and the twin girls of Eric

Lecarde whom the former had vampirized, Stella and Loretta. Aided by

Charlotte's magickal expertise, Jonathan had to learn to utilize the

Vampire Killer whip, which his genealogical connection to the Belmont

family gave him the potential to use. He blamed his father, John, for

failing to train him correctly (John Morris was by now deceased). Luckily,

Jonathan, Charlotte, and Wind were victorious, and Dracula-Mathias

and his allies--including the avatar of Death that often assisted the

Vampire Lord--were vanquished (albeit not for good).******

* Tesla, a semi-anagram of Lejos.

** See Lew Landers' file RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE.

*** Zarnak's career was recorded by his biographer Lin Carter, among

others. Prof. Matthew Baugh, The Wold Newton Institute's supreme

authority on Occult Detectives, has provided a timeline of Zarnak's crusade

against outre' menaces.

Click here for the Zarnak Timeline

**** Exactly what became of this bizarre organ after that point is unknown,

but an examination of the file FRANKENSTEIN VS. BARAGON (a.k.a.,

FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD, a.k.a., Furankenshutain tai

chitei kaijû Baragon) may hold the answer.

***** See Christofer Nigro's file "Requiem For a Regime" from the

anthology Night of the Nyctalope, published by Black Coat Press. The date

for this incident presented in the story was an error; this author apologizes

for that, and corrects it here in this timeline.

****** See Konami's report CASTLEVANIA: PORTRAIT OF RUIN.

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1945

Visaria Lawrence Stewart Talbot travels once more to Visaria seeking a

cure from Dr. Franz Edelmann. Edelmann was a craniologist who moved

his practice to Visaria to be near the home of the man who inspired him,

the late Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein.

Dracula-Latos also arrives, claiming to seek a cure from vampirism.

As the events unfold Talbot is seemingly cured, and he falls in love with

Miliza Morelle, Dr. Edelmann’s beautiful assistant. Dracula-Latos also

had taken a fancy to Miss Morelle, but his attentions were not

reciprocated. This romantic rivalry furthered the Vampire Lord's hatred for

the Talbot family. Later, Henry Frankenstein’s Monster is revived, and

Dracula-Latos turns Dr. Edelmann into a semi-soul-clone of a

soul-clone.*

The method used by Dracula-Latos to turn Dr. Edelmann into a

semi-soul-clone was actually done with Edelmann’s unwitting

cooperation. Dr. Edelmann’s theory for curing a vampire consisted of

transferring his own blood and essence into the patient. Dracula-Latos

during one of these procedures merely reversed the process.

Unknown to Dracula-Latos, he received, in the first transfusions

from Dr. Edelmann, a remnant of the doctor's own soul. This would have

a profound affect on the Latos Clone many years later.

New information exposes Dracula-Latos' reason for turning Dr. Edelmann

into a soul-clone of himself. Knowing that Edelmann’s scientific

knowledge would be retained, the doctor was merely a pawn of Dracula in

the quest to get the Monster of Henry Frankenstein to full strength.

This plan seems to have failed, as Dracula-Latos, Dr. Edelmann, and the

Monster seemed to be destroyed at different points in the course of these

events.

However, soon after the events of this report, Dracula-Prime awakens the

Lejos Clone and sends him to Visaria. Dracula-Lejos locates the

remains of Dracula-Latos, and transfers the Star-Stone ring to his own

finger. The body of Dracula-Latos is shipped back to Castle Dracula.

Dracula-Lejos recovers the insensate form of Henry Frankenstein’s

Monster, and takes control over the creature.** This was shortly after

World War II had ended.

During this time, while convalescing from his recent battle with Lady Jane

Ainsley, Dracula-Lejos met a young gypsy woman whom he took a fancy

to (some scholars believe it was actual love), and taking advantage of his

unique ability amongst vampires to actually impregnate females, he

conceived a son with her who was named Edgar after he was born. The

child was, of course, born a dhampir, a rare hybrid of a human and a

vampire.

A few months after World War II had ended, the notorious female vampire

of the Dacian strain, Millarca Karnstein (known by various other alias

over the past few centuries), used a magickal technique she

had learned to project her essence into a woman named Georgia, who

was the betrothed of Leopold Karnstein. This transformed Georgia into a

dhampir-like being who was still able to be impregnated.*** Sometime

later, they would give birth to a dhampir daughter Irina, later to become a

sort of adopted daughter of Dracula-Lejos.****

Larry Talbot marries Miliza, and they live happily for 2 months 'till his

lycanthropy returns after his brain regenerates the transformation-

triggering gland surgically removed by Dr. Edelmann, and he kills

her.*****

Information obtained by Prof. Matthew Baugh and myself (Prof. Loridans)

reveals that Miliza was not killed, although Talbot believed she was. It

has been revealed that the wedding of Lawrence Stewart Talbot and

Miliza Morelle was attended by Maleva Blasko, one of the few people

Talbot considered a true friend. Maleva’s heightened senses told her that

not only was Talbot not permanently cured, but that Miliza was

pregnant.

Maleva planned ahead for the night when she knew Talbot would once

again revert to his bestial state, and secreted Miliza away to safety. Talbot

was led to believe that he had killed Miliza so that he would not go

searching for her.

London That same year while attending an opera, Jon Quincy Harker

and his wife, Elizabeth Mina Harker, are savagely attacked by Dracula-

Prime.

Quincy Harker’s legs are rendered completely useless, and his wife,

Elizabeth Mina, almost dies from blood loss and suffers severe trauma.

Quincy Harker travels to New York City for physical therapy. He is helped

in his endeavors by Prof. Damien Harmon, who had lost the use of his

own legs in 1938.

Harmon, who had achieved doctorate degrees in ancient literature and

medieval philosophy, and a masters degree in physics, before he reached

his mid-twenties (as well as having at the time latent telepathic abilities),

was once a special assistant to New York City police commissioner Ralph

Weston.

As a consultant he used his vast knowledge in the then-new science of

criminology. What started out as desk job and late night discussions of

theories with friends like Richard Wentworth turned into disaster, when

Harmon, against Weston's orders, took his ideas to the streets and met

his fate when a thug bashed his head and spine with a lead pipe.

Along with having a metal plate inserted in his skull, Harmon was left a

cripple. Having dealt with his handicap through strenuous exercise,

building up his upper body strength, he became a perfect mentor for

Quincy Harker. Harker met Harmon through fellow League of

Anti-Diabolists member, Dr. Jeffrey Garth, whose younger brother,

Atwood Garth, was an old friend of Prof. Harmon.

While going through therapy, Harker, Harmon, and another wheelchair

bound scientist, Dr. Everette Scott, become good friends. After many

nights discussing their various fields of expertise, Harker

invites both men to join him in the League of Anti-Diabolists. Harmon

declines, but Dr. Scott accepts and becomes the newest member.

* See agent Curt Siodmak’s report HOUSE OF DRACULA.

** Which, ironically, has the brain of Dracula-Lejos' son, Ygor.

*** The full story behind the marriage of Leopold Karnstein to

Millarca while her essence inhabited the form of his fiancée

Georgia was told in Claude Brule's report BLOOD AND ROSES (a.k.a., TO

DIE WITH PLEASURE), which incorrectly conflated some of these events

with the first recorded report of Mircalla Karnstein, a relative of Millarca's,

in Sheridan Le Fanu's file Carmilla.

**** For the full story behind Irina Karnstein, where she had taken on the

alias of Nadja, see Michael Almereyda's file NADJA. The full skinny on the

Karnstein lineage can be found in Prof. Zahir Blue's article The House of

Karnstein. Many thanks to Prof. Blue, whose research uncovered much

about the Karnstein family.

***** This is according to agent Jeff Rovin's report Return of the Wolf Man.

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1946

Birth of John Lawrence Talbot, son of Lawrence Stewart Talbot and

Miliza Morelle.

John Lawrence "Jack" Talbot

After being taken to a safe place, Miliza is comforted by Baron Ivor

Russoff, a kind man introduced to her by Maleva. The two marry and

Baron Russoff adopts John Lawrence. A month or so later, Lawrence

Stewart Talbot, in werewolf form, is near the home of Baron Russoff.

The Wolf Man catches the scent of his former wife in her bed room,

crashes through her window, and mates with her, purely through instinct

(wolves chose one mate for life). Whether or not the Wolf Man would have

killed Miliza is unknown, because as soon as the seed was planted,

Baron Russoff entered the room with a rifle, firing at the manbeast. The

Wolf Man leaped out of the window, fleeing to the woods beyond. When

Talbot awoke the next morning in human form once more, he of

course had no memory of the event. At the time, Talbot was on the trail of

Dracula-Lejos, who was nearby, so it's quite possible that the Lord of the

Undead himself manipulated these events.

Eighteen months after the birth of her older brother, John Lawrence,

Melissa (Lissa) Maureen Russoff is born. She is the daughter of Miliza

Russoff and Lawrence Stewart Talbot. At Maleva’s suggestion, Baron

Russoff moves his wife and two adopted children to the U.S.A. In the

States, Russoff changes his last name to Russell. During childhood,

young John Lawrence becomes attached to the family dog. His young

mind is impressed that the breed name (Jack Russell Terrier) is similar to

his own, and starts calling himself "Jack."

Meanwhile, Jack's true father, Lawrence Stewart Talbot, travels the

globe in pursuit of Dracula-Lejos.

Talbot believes that destroying the Vampire King might make up for

some of the evil that he himself has done. If he can succeed in this

mission, he can then try to fulfill his fondest wish: to die.

New York In order to have an army of man-made monsters, like the

Creature he now controls, Dracula-Lejos sends Marya Zeleska's clone,

Lilith, to the U.S.A. (named after Dracula-Prime's daughter) to spy on

and influence Dr. Peter Frederick Frankenstein. To achieve this, Lilith

uses the name Elizabeth and begins a romance with young Dr.

Frankenstein. The two are soon engaged.

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1947

Dracula-Rominoff sets out on a campaign to destroy the semi-immortal,

artistic sorcerer Comte de Saint-Germain, whom he perceives as a rival.

At one point, Saint-Germain manages to take the Vampire Lord

unawares, and mystically traps his essence in a statue the mystic sculpted

in the Vampire Lord's likeness. As a memento of his victory, Saint-

Germain placed the statue in the garden of his specious villa in Italy,

where Dracula-Rominoff would remain entrapped for 12 years.*

* See Chapter 5 of Peter David's file Spike vs. Dracula, published by IDW

Publishing, and reprinted in the Spike Omnibus. Also see the entry for the

year 1959 in this timeline.

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1948

The Freonized bodies of Dracula-Lejos and the Uni Frankenstein

Monster are sold to an American businessman named McDougal, who

arranges for them to be shipped from Europe to the buyer's home in La

Mirada, Florida. McDougal intends to put them on display at his shop of

horrors. Unfortunately, the bumbling freight handler Wilbur Grey

somehow inadvertently revives the Lejos Clone from his state of

suspension while preparing the wooden crate he's stored in for pick-up by

McDougal. The Vampire Lord then himself revives the Monster, whose

mind was easily susceptible to his mesmerism due to the fact that the

creature now harbored the damaged brain of his Lejos' offspring, Ygor.

Both Dracula-Lejos and the Uni Monster are in a weakened state due to

the after-effects of the Freon Process. Though Dracula was aware he

would eventually return to his full power with time, he knew that in order to

get his new monstrous body guard back to full strength, he would have to

expose him to sizable amounts of galvanized electricity. He also wanted a

new, more docile brain placed in the Monster's skull, since he didn't trust

the now damaged and even more unstable brain of Ygor. To this end, he

forms an association with the brilliant scientist and surgeon Dr. Sandra

Mornay, a descendant of Dr. Moreau.

Dracula-Lejos (now specifically using that surname for disguise) and

Mornay also have possession of Henry Frankenstein’s notebook.

Dracula’s plan is to replace Ygor’s brain with that of the easily

controllable Wilbur Grey.

In the meantime, Larry Talbot tracks Dracula-Lejos to La Mirada.

Dracula-Lejos and Talbot meet on La Viuda Island, just off the coast of

LaMirada. Since Talbot has encountered both the Latos and the Lejos

soul-clones, he's not fooled by Dracula calling himself Dr.

Lejos. Talbot, in Wolf Man form, foils Dracula-Lejos’ plan with the

assistance of Grey's equally bumbling best friend and co-worker, Chick

Young, and Mornay's assistant, Dr. Stevens. During the course of the

ensuing chaos, Dr. Mornay, who had been vamped by Dracula-Lejos to

insure her loyalty to him, was killed by the rampaging Frankenstein

Monster, who had nevertheless been successfully restored to full

strength thanks to the specialized galvanizing machinery designed by Dr.

Stevens.

The Vampire King barely escapes after a battle with his lycanthrope foe;

the conflict culminated as he transforms into bat form to fly out a window

to safety, only to be grabbed by the man-beast after the Wolf Man leapt at

him. Grasping the Lord of the Undead while he was in flight just a few

inches from the window caused both of them to fall out of the castle and

land together in a roiling body of water.

With the assistance of an understanding woman named Joan Raymond,

Talbot skewers himself with a shard of silver, returning him to his

death-like hibernation, Raymond had his body entombed in the bowels of

the ancient castle that stands on La Viuda island.**

Unknown to both of them, the Universal Frankenstein Monster

also ends up slumbering there, gradually recovering from the severe

wounds he received after being set aflame by Dr. Stevens while pursuing

(and falling to catch) Grey and Young.

A new mystery has reached the surface concerning this event. The La

Viuda Island Incident occurred October 31, 1948. A chart showing the

phases of the moon provided by Prof. Loki Carbis clearly shows that there

was no full moon on that date, yet the reports show that Larry Talbot did

indeed transform into a werewolf. Rest assured, this matter is being looked

into.

This year also marks the passing of Baroness Elizabeth Frankenstein,

widow of the late Baron Henry Frankenstein.

Frankenstein, Germany Upon the death of his grandmother, Dr. Peter

Frederick Frankenstein inherits Frankenstein Castle. Though reluctant

at first, he eventually succumbs to the curse of his family and decides to

create his own man-made monster. With the assistance of a lovely village

girl named Inga and a hunchback named Eye-Gor,*** he succeeds in

stitching together and giving life to a Monster of his own.****

The end result is that if Dracula-Prime was expecting an army of

monsters from this source, he was disappointed. Dr. Peter Frederick

Frankenstein, makes friends with his Creation. The doctor winds up

marrying his assistant Inga, and the Monster winds up marrying

Frankenstein’s ex-fiancee, Elizabeth (Lilith).

A few months after Dracula-Lejos escaped from the Wolf Man's clutches

back at La Viuda island, the brother of Dr. Sandra Mornay hired Jack

Griffin, the second Invisible Man,***** to assassinate the Vampire

Lord. Griffin carried out a plan where he contacted Dracula-Lejos and

asked to meet him at a London pub called The Slaughtered

Lamb,****** where they would discuss a business proposition that

Griffin had to offer.

Intrigued by the offer, Dracula-Lejos later met Griffin at a pre-designated

hotel room elsewhere in London. There the Prince of Darkness found

himself in the midst of a death trap Griffin had set up for him, with the

King of the Undead promptly escaping it. The two dangerous beings

then battled, with Dracula-Lejos emerging the winner. Having failed his

assignment, the injured Invisible Man fled the area.******

* For more on Dr. Moreau, please see That Stubborn Beast Flesh

Come Creeping Back! The Islands of Dr. Moreau by Prof. Dennis Power.

Dr. Moreau's activities were first chronicled in H.G. Wells' file The Island

of Dr. Moreau.

** See Robert Lees' and Frederic I. Rinaldo's strangely titled file ABBOTT

AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN and Jeff Rovin's file Return of

the Wolf Man.

*** As of this report, we do not know the story behind Eye-Gor, but

information, shared with me by Prof. Win Scott Eckert, reveals that this

bizarre individual was involved in a secret eugenics program in the 1960s.

**** See agent Gene Wilder’s report, co-written with C.O.N.T.R.O.L agent

Mel Brooks, entitled YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.

***** The first recorded exploit of Jack Griffin, the second Invisible Man,

can be found in James Whale's and R.C. Sherriff's report entitled THE

INVISIBLE MAN, which is not to be confused with H.G. Wells' similarly

titled report that tells the story of John Hawley Griffin, the first Invisible

Man.

****** The Slaughtered Lamb pub was the same tavern where BFF's

David Kessler and Jack Goodman patronized just prior to the two being

attacked by a cursed werewolf belonging to an entirely different breed than

Larry Talbot, resulting in Goodman's death and Kessler becoming infected

by the curse himself; that incident was described in John Landis' report, AN

AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON.

******* See Prof. Anton Griffin's file "Dracula vs. the Invisible Man,"

published as part of his Universal Monster Kombat series of files in Scary

Monsters Magazine #53, and reprinted in The Midnight Shadow Show: Prof.

Griffin Files. Note: Prof. Anton Griffin claims that he has no relation to the

infamous Griffin family that has produced its share of Invisible Men to

terrorize the world, but further investigation must be done to verify this

allegation.

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1949

Birth of Jaime Summers to James and Anna Summers.

That same year, Kurt Van Helsing marries Anna Abronsius.

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Children of the Night Timeline:

1921-1949