Children of the Night Timeline:

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1980



California  Birth of Connor Corrigan to Patrick and Rachel (Van Helsing)


Corrigan.

Birth of Julius Belmont, who would grow up to be the warrior that


prevented Dracula-Mathias from taking over the world during the Demon


Castle War near the turn of the Millennium.
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1981



Birth of Katherine Corrigan to Patrick and Rachel (Van Helsing)


Corrigan. The original Frankenstein Monster was briefly contacted


by his old nemesis, Ivan, the tall hunchback who had been surgically


enhanced by Dr. Vincent Frankenstein, the great-grandfather of Victoria


Von Frankenstein, back in the late 19th century, so that his strength,


resistance to injury, and physical longevity  were similar to that of the


Monster himself. Ivan had recently joined forces with a brilliant but evil


scientist named Dr. Walston Kraft, who was an expert on the emerging


science of cloning. He promised both the Monster and Ivan that he would


provide handsome, non-monstrous clones of both of them in return for


their being his thralls for a time, which included acting as his bodyguards


during an international scientific council on cloning that he held in his


castle in the Swiss Alps.










During this time, the Monster ran into Ben Reilly, himself a clone of Peter


Parker, having succeeded him as the costumed hero Spider-Man in the


1980s, who had been sent to cover Kraft's science council as a freelance


photojournalist by the New York Post. Reilly conducted an investigation


which revealed the fact that Kraft was just using the Monster to provide


him with raw organic material to create an army of humanoids who had all


of the Creature's physical attributes but no freedom of will, for use as a


personal military force to subjugate the world.  Kraft's mad scheme was


ended when the Monster, receiving proof of the scientist's duplicity from


Reilly, turned on Ivan and defeated him in battle, apparently killing him


by snapping his neck.







The Monster and Reilly then teamed up to battle a large group


 of the cloned creatures released to oppose them by Kraft, a


conflagration that ended with both the castle and all the cloned


humanoids destroyed in a fire. The Monster and Reilly managed to


escape, but apparently so did Dr. Kraft, who swore vengeance on the


Creature (though there have been no further reports of him since then to


date).










* Due to the extreme depression and disappointment over failing to receive


the attractive humanoid body that Kraft had promised him, the Monster left


the company of Victoria Von Frankenstein immediately following that


incident, and wandered back to the Arctic. The reason for this, based on a


theory by Prof. Loridans, is that the Monster subconsciously yearned to


relocate the realm of Toyland, a portal to which exists in the Arctic, and


where he briefly spent time after wandering through the holes in the area


during the early 1800s. The Monster yearned to return there so greatly


because he found acceptance by the strange denizens of that realm, and


even the love of the Queen of Toyland, who made the Monster her king.









The Monster's presence in Toyland during that time period was revealed in


a collection of reports acquired by historian Alan Moore, and mentioned in


the World Almanac section of his file The League Of Extraordinary


Gentlemen Volume 2. 









It's the personal theory of Prof. Nero that whenever the Monster was


revived after a lengthy period of being frozen in suspended animation, he


lost many of his memories of the events experienced over the past several


months or years prior to his being frozen, recollecting many of them only


vaguely or subconsciously (this is why the Monster didn't seem to


recognize Dracula-Prime during their second encounter in 1897). When the


Monster returned to the Arctic in the late '80s, he evidently didn't find the


portal to Toyland again, but instead found himself frozen in suspended


animation once more. There he would remain for a decade until he was


discovered and revived by Dr. Burt Winslow. 











* This tale was recorded in the file "A Real Boy" by Chris Golden about a


decade later, and published in Spider-Man Unlimited #21 by Marvels


Comics.  Many of the details were greatly altered by Golden to make it


seem contemporary with other partially and entirely fictional stories being


published by Marvels during this period, and to fill in the gaps of details


that weren't actually known by Golden (including precisely who wore the


mantle of Spider-Man at the time).
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1982

Dracula-Prime is approached by a band of followers who have acquired a

copy of the dark arcane tome known as the Darkhold.  Dracula then

used the dreaded book to increase his power to a level greater than he

ever possessed before.  He enacts revenge on Rachel Van Helsing (now

Corrigan), taking her by surprise and transforming her into a vampire who

serves his will. 

Dracula-Prime's enmity with Thor, the Norse god of thunder embodied in

the form of a human medical student, began around this time.*

He then decides to create a more powerful band of vampiric underling by

targeting members of the Homo Superior race--i.e., mutants--to transform

into members of the Undead.  This brings him into conflict with the

"Legion of the Strange," who manage to resist his attempt to bring them

into the ranks of the Undead with the assistance of the now vampirized

Rachel Van Helsing.  After Dracula abandoned these plans, Rachel

managed to regain control of her own will for long enough to ask one of

the Legion of the Strange, the lycanthropic James Howlett, to end her

vampiric existence by killing her quickly.  He complies with her request,

and she dies peacefully while watching the sun rise for the final time. 

Present during the above incident was Dracula-Prime's powerful vampiric

daughter and sworn nemesis, Lilith Drake (she had legally adopted the

surname of Dracula-Prime's descendant and enemy, Frank Drake, as a

private jest), who manipulated the 'Legion of the Strange' into battling

her father. During this event, she discovered to her dismay that part of her

curse to be Dracula-Prime's eternal adversary prevented her from actually

killing him directly by her own hand, thus forcing her to use pawns for that

specific purpose.**

* See Alan Zelenetz's files "Blood of a Goddess!" and "Like A Bat Out of

Heaven!", published in Thor Vol. 1 issue #'s 332 & 333 respectively by

Marvels Comics. Much of this story was exaggerated and embellished,

particularly the power level possessed by medical student Connor Blake

when the Norse god embodied himself in Blake, and describing Blake as a

physician rather than a medical student so as to depict him as the original

member of the Blake family to have the thunder god embody himself

within circa early 1960s.

** Dracula-Prime's encounters with the misfit posthumans known as the

Legion of the Strange, the latter of whose existence was uncovered via

research led by Prof. Ivan Ronald Schablotski--which was built on by Prof.'s

Dennis Power, Pete Coogan, and Henry Covert--were compiled by Chris

Claremont and depicted in often exaggerated and romanticized form as all

being members of Homo superior as the "X-Men" in comic books published

by Marvels Comics. The Legion of the Strange were the inspiration for the

"X-Men" in Marvels Comics and the "Doom Patrol" in DC Comics. 

Claremont's files involving Dracula-Prime were published by Marvels

Comics in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1 #159 ("Night Screams") - reprinted

in X-Men Classics #63 - and Uncanny X-Men Annual Vol. 1 # 6 ("Blood

Feud").

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1983



Around this year, another major report of Dracula-Gillis surfaced. He had


by now taken on the identity of "Gaylord Young," and was still


hedonistically engaging in carnal shenanigans with the many hunks he


came across in L.A., only this time he was facing off against a nemesis


who referred to himself as the Marquis de Suede. At this time the Gillis


Clone (who may have transferred his consciousness to another host


body) was flippantly referred to at times as "Gayracula" by the members


of the monster hunting community who kept tabs on his activities.*

A contingent of the League of Anti-Diabalists, working in conjunction

with Dr. Stephen Strange's Order of the Secret Defenders, wage a war

against Dracula-Prime, who uses another spell found in the Darkhold to

further increase his power so that he was now immune to all traditional

vampiric weaknesses.  He next initiated a plan to use the Darkhold to

create a faction of the Undead who were immune to the effects of

sunlight, a plot discovered by Dr. Strange's spies in the supernatural

underground.  After a hard fought battle with the array of opponents who

were determined to stop him--which included his old nemeses Blade,

Hannibal King, and Frank Drake-- Dracula-Prime is apparently

destroyed for good by another spell found within the Darkhold called the

Montesi Formula. However, his soul-clones would remain active and

operate in various plots autonomously over the next decade, most of them

continuing to believe they were the "true" Dracula. 

Following the apparent permanent destruction of Dracula-Prime, the

renegade soul-clone Dracula-Mordante made use of this fact to begin his

plans to create a political power base in France by way of manipulating

human politicians from behind the scenes. He did this in an alliance with

the troupe of vile denizens of the faerie realm called the Unseely Court,

who revived him following the demise of Dracula-Prime to gain him as an

ally. Dracula-Mordante was successful in creating this power base, and

he covertly took over a surprising portion of the French political scene that

lasted until the early '90s when his plans were thwarted by his old foe

Vampirella soon after her revival following being trapped in the form

of an elderly school teacher for a decade.  

* See the report, compiled by Roger Earl, Dorthee Pshaw, and Laurei I.


Lee, called GAYRACULA.

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1984

California   John Lawrence "Jack" Talbot frees his sister from her

suspended animation.

 Once they are sure that she does not share the family curse, Melissa


(Lissa) Maureen Russell goes on to live a normal life, eventually getting


married to a nice, normal man named Kevin Osbourne. At last report,


they had a son named Jordan in 1992 and seem to be happy.

John Lawrence, however, seems to sadly accept his fate, and takes up


the trade as a claims adjuster, moving from town to town and always


keeping one step ahead of our group and other monster hunting


organizations. Many members of the League whose paths have crossed


with members of the Talbot family have regretted the fact that they are


dedicated to destroying them if they carry the curse of lycanthropy.







 Hopes persist that a cure may someday be found.  

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1985



The reality-threatening event known as the Crisis imperils the Earth, with


many of the world's champions fighting the source along with its effects.


The League of Anti-Diabolists are among those who get involved to


combat the demonic creatures set loose upon the world as one of the


effects of this global event. 



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1987



This year saw the formation of the earliest version of the Monster Squad 


by 12-year-old Sean Crenshaw. Sean led his team of mostly middle


school monster hunters into thwarting a dangerous attempt by Dracula-


Rominoff to abscond with an incredibly powerful mystical amulet


described as being composed of "concentrated good" that would enable


the forces of evil to gain dominance over the entire world if the amulet was


shattered on a specific evening at midnight.









To this end, Dracula-Rominoff recruited via mystical


control a team of monsters comprised of the Frankenstein Monster


copycat created by Louis Frankenstein,* a werewolf who was a member


of the Talbot clan who has been speculated to be Louis "Louie" Talbot**


(whom the Vampire Lord could only control while in his lycanthrope


form), an unidentified reanimated cursed mummy, and one of the very rare


close genetic relations to the Gill Man; he also vampirized three


adolescent girls as his "brides" to use as another weapon against any


opposition to this plan. 








With some aid by his policeman father, an elderly German-Jewish


Auschwitz survivor whom the team simply referred to as 'Scary German


Guy,' and the Monster--whom Sean's little sister Phoebe befriended and


managed to convince to change sides--Sean Crenshaw led his team to


victory against Dracula-Rominoff, who ended up exiled in an


unknown void-like dimension referred to as "Limbo" (this was most likely


not the same realm that Robert Hellsgaard was trapped in for six


decades).








Dracula-Lejos, who was then operating under the guise of Voivoide


Arminius Chousescu, is staked by Sven Van Helsing and his nephew,


both members of the American branch of the famed vampire hunting


family (believed to be descended directly from Leyland Van Helsing) who


have taken up the traditional familial mission. This brings him into conflict


with the Lejos Clone's family, including his son Edgar Dracula and his


surrogate daughter Irina Karnstein (then using the name Najda), both of


whom were dhampirs.  However, the situation is strained as Edgar's


fiancée and live in nurse is Cassandra Van Helsing, Sven's daughter.


When the dhampiric Edgar becomes ill due to extended lack of blood,


Irina attempts to sacrifice Cassandra for the benefit of both herself and


her brother, but Edgar joins forces with Sven Van Helsing and his


nephew to bring Irina down and save Cassandra, which they succeed in


doing.  Having been restored to full health by an infusion of blood from


shark embryos, Edgar marries Cassandra, not knowing that upon her


death, Irina\Nadja made use of a potent magickal technique that her


family line, including her mother, appeared to have a knack for mastering


to compensate for the Dacian strain's relative lack of power compared to


vampires of other strains,  and projected her essence into Cassandra's


body, thus conferring her dhampiric status upon her.**** Edgar didn't


seem to realize this, and the couple went on to have two children.








* Agent Gregory Long has postulated that this particular Monster may be


the same one who participated (along with his creator) in the event reported


in the file The Night of Lonesome October.  This, Prof. Long


suggests, is due to the relatively friendly nature of


this Monster compared to other man-made monsters created by the


Frankenstein clan and their various imitators throughout the past few


centuries.  It remains unknown at present how this particular Monster


copycat ended up insensate in a de-powered state until Dracula-Rominoff


discovered him at this point in time. When Dracula-Rominoff first


located this Monster, he referred to him as "old friend" with ironic


connotations, and he took personal pleasure in taking control of the


Creature who had helped thwart his plans at least twice in the past.











** Louis "Louie" Talbot is conjectured by Prof. Ivan Ronald Schablotski to


be the son of Larry Hackensack Talbot.











*** See Fred Dekker and Shane Black's file THE MONSTER


SQUAD.
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1991




Another group of followers gets a hold of the Darkhold and use a spell


within it to reverse the effects of the Montesi Formula on Dracula-Prime,


reviving him against all odds yet again. Though the revival was incomplete


at first, over the next few years Dracula-Prime managed to make a


complete revival to corporeal form, and he spent the rest of the decade


seeking to elevate his power to the level of godhood. Thankfully, he was


thwarted in this ongoing scheme by several of his old nemeses in the


League of Anti-Diabolists.  During the '90s decade, he frequently


clashed with agents of the League prior to the group


being taken over by the U.S. government and morphed into the


Initiative, as well as a splinter group of the League called the


Nightstalkers, which was comprised of his three old foes Blade,


Hannibal King, and Frank Drake. 











Whether or not Dracula-Prime ever regained control of the remaining soul


-clones which he controlled at the time of his temporary destruction via the


Montesi Formula in 1983, or created new soul-clones over the course of


that decade, remains unknown at this time.  However, it's unlikely that the


Prince of Darkness would entirely abandon the use of such an


extraordinarily valuable resource. 

During this year, Vampirella was finally revived after a decade-long

entrapment in the body of an elderly mortal school teacher, and she soon

engaged in a major conflict with her old foe, the powerful autonomous

soul-clone Dracula-Mordante, which ultimately broke his political hold on

a large area of France and elsewhere in the European Union. Dracula-

Mordante's alliance with the Unseely Court has been in question since

then.*

Birth of Vladimir "Vlad"/"Vlady" Dracula to the unique fertile soul-clones


Dracula-Edgar and Magda Weston. Shortly after this, Weston begins


tiring of dealing with her husband's attitudes, including his blatantly sexist


behavior towards all females (it would appear that a decent degree of


Cassandra Van Helsing's original persona was "leaking" into the


superimposed persona of Lucy Weston, since the latter never displayed


such a degree of defiance towards Dracula-Prime no matter what type of


attitude he displayed). She leaves him for a werewolf whom some sources


claim was an adult Edward "Eddie" Munster using a new alias. The two


eventually had a son who inherited his father's lycanthropy, which


manifested almost immediately, on the first full moon after the baby's birth


(it's quite possible that this unusual occurrence resulted due to the fact


that he possessed some of his mother's truly unique genes).**

* See agent Kurt Busiek's report Vampirella: The Dracula War.

** This info is courtesy of Prof. Zahir Blue's invaluable research.

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1996

By means as yet undetermined, Rachel Van Helsing-Corrigan was

evidently revived this year, and also restored to a semblance of humanity.

Just before Rachel's revival, her husband Patrick and son Connor are

killed in a car wreck (and we have our suspicions as to who orchestrated

this tragedy). The revived Rachel Van Helsing-Corrigan then becomes a

member of the group known as the Legacy, an ensemble in many ways

like that of the League of Anti-Diabolists.

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1997

This year, the fully revived Dracula-Prime seeks to reclaim Castle


Dracula, which was then inhabited by the renegade soul-clone Dracula-


Mordante, who retreated there following his ousting from France.







Dracula-Prime decides to rid his premises of this upstart rogue soul-clone


by striking a deal with the powerful sentient force known as the Order of


the Dragon, which has been strongly connected to the Tepes/Dracula


lineage for many centuries, and whose genealogy includes Count Lucius


Mordante himself. This deal consisted of Dracula-Mordante being


entrapped by the Order of the Dragon in a perpetual time-loop where he


was forced to repeatedly live through unending variations of the general


narrative of the real Vlad Tepes' life, played out through various different


time periods and settings. Other individuals would be


 involuntarily 'absorbed' into the chronal fabric of this time-loop to play


other prominent roles in the ever-repeating narrative, including a hapless


American war correspondent named Jack Halloran, who was 'conscripted'


by this force to continuously play the role of Jonathan Harker in


Dracula's life. His wife Mia, and her best friend Lucy, were


synchronistically 'conscripted' by the force to play the roles of Mina


Harker and Lucy Westenra in this time-looping narrative when it played


out in New York City during this year, and Jack found himself initially


helpless to prevent their victimization by the time-trapped Vampire Lord.*







Due to various 'breaches' in the fabric containing the Order of the Dragon's


time-loop, Dracula-Mordante was able to reassert his will within the


eternally perpetuating meta-narrative and attempt to either escape or draw


other individuals into the time-loop in the hope of getting them to replace


him in the Vlad Tepes role within the narrative. It's believed that more than


one dimensional counterparts of his diverged from these attempts due to


the narrative occurring in isolation from all consistent timelines. It is the


conjecture of Prof. Nero that at least one of these counterparts successfully


escaped the narrative towards the end of the 1990s decade and


successfully entered the dimension of Draculon, where he attempted to


take over this hell dimension inhabited by hordes of nosferatu.







This causes him to knock heads with another powerful rogue soul-clone


attempting to do the same, Dracula-Magnus. The latter soul-clone


evidently won out, resulting in this divergent counterpart of Dracula-


Mordante leaving Draculon and entering the Dreamlands, where he


discovered the Castlevania construct and began the path leading to the


time-traveling ventures that would eventually merge his essence with the


10th century alchemist/warrior Mathias Crongvist to create another


powerful rogue soul-clone, Dracula-Mathias. Dracula-Mathias has a history


that mostly occurs within this same timeline, albeit across many different


time periods. Another divergent counterpart of Dracula-Mordante would


escape the time-loop circa 2010 and become active on this timeline in his


traditional state from that year onwards; see entry for 2010.






After re-establishing himself in Castle Dracula, Dracula-Prime's latest


attempt to ascend to the level of godhood is thwarted by the League of


Anti-Diabolists working in conjunction with agents of Dr. Stephen


Strange's Order of the Secret Defenders.  Dracula-Prime was defeated


when the forces he unleashed resulted in a severe backlash, trapping him


the form of a humble spider wandering around his mansion. 

A member of the League of Anti-Diabolists observes an episode of The


Jerry Springer Show which features the alleged "mother of a werewolf


baby."

 The League sends an agent to investigate, and discovers that this


woman was briefly married to John Lawrence Talbot, and that the infant,


named Luke, is Talbot’s son.










The child is removed from his uncaring mother and sent to live with


League members Cameron and Jenny Harmon Sanchez, in New York


City.








Around this year, Dracula-Magnus--who had previously become fully


autonomous of Dracula-Prime's control--managed to gather together a


grimoire collecting spells he accumulated from the brief possession of


various volumes of books of dark magick, such as the Crimson


Chronicles and the Darkhold. Using these spells in an extremely ghastly


ritual that required the impalement of a few hundred innocent people and


the energies acquired from both their life forces and the many gallons of


their spilled blood that resulted, he became the first version of Dracula to


gain entry to the dimension of Draculon, which was inhabited by vampires


directly spawned by the primal demoness Lilith (and was once mistakenly


believed by Vampirella and Dracula-Mordante to be another planet in


deep space that they were extraterrestrial natives of, courtesy of artificial


memory implants placed in their psyches by Azathoth, a.k.a., the "mad


god" Chaos; Draculon would later be visited by Dracula-Mordante and


Dracula-Mathius).







The realm of Draculon was punctuated by vast streams of naturally


occurring human blood that was used as nourishment by its vampiric


inhabitants. Using the energies inherent within this realm to augment the


power he acquired from the books of dark magick and the necromantic


energies he absorbed from his victims in the course of opening a portal to


Draculon, Dracula-Magnus took control of the realm, and studied there


for several months, exponentially building his power even further.









Ultimately, he gained the power to psionically animate and control all


human blood (and possibly animal blood too) he came across. In addition,


he could inter-dimensionally draw large but unknown quantities of blood


from mini-portals (about the size of a pinhead) leading to the dimension of


Draculon that he created around his fingertips, the soles of his feet, and


possibly other bodily extremities with only a small amount of concentration


and effort. He could mystically cause this blood he summoned to take on


quasi-tangible form of both inanimate objects, such as swords, ropes, or


even vehicles like hansoms/wagon trains that he could use with the same


degree of effectiveness as if he had access to the real objects they were


patterned after, but with even greater degrees of effectiveness; and


seemingly animate versions of living animals that he could psychically


direct from an impressive distance to function the same as the actual


animal they were patterned after, such as a pack of attack dogs or a group


of horses that could carry the quasi-solid hansoms and wagon train


constructs he created out of blood. However, this ability takes so much


energy that he apparently had to sacrifice his shape-shifting powers to a


large extent, so that he is rarely seen to use them anymore, if at all. 










 
Upon further training, Dracula-Magnus learned to gradually draw such


great amounts of blood from the Draculon dimension, as well as any


source on Earth he can find it from (including large numbers of human


victims), that he can create entire huge multi-level castles of such a


degree of quasi-solid thickness that conventional military weapons of great


explosive force such as bazookas and even small missiles cannot


penetrate the walls (he likely has to concentrate for a while to create


structures of such exceptional size, and may need the assistance of


mystical power drawn from copies of the dark tomes mentioned above, or


at least spells he memorized from them, in order to do so successfully).







However, these quasi-solid blood constructs of Dracula-Magnus can be


more or less easily penetrated or broken down by a special liquid


coagulant created by scientists working for the Polidorium, as well as


other substances that are anathema to evil supernatural beings in general


and many vampire strains in particular, such as holy water or implements


of silver or hawthorn wood. He also learned to project torrents of blood via


mini-portals from the soles of his feet with such force that he can use this


to gain a semblance of flight (but this may have been exaggerated in the


reports).







Also an expert on the dark magickal art of wielding necromantic energies,


including its use in creating supernatural zombies, Dracula-Magnus


learned while in the realm of Draculon (which is distinct from the Vampire


Dimension discussed in this article by Prof. Zahir Blue) to create


near-mindless vampire zombies to serve as his foot soldiers when need


be; he has also used a contingent of vampiric ninjas as sentries at his


blood palaces.






He also took on a number of corrupt human allies when


convenient, including a member of the Van Helsing family, Judith, the


older sister of vampire hunter Ronnie Van Helsing, who is one of


Dracula-Magnus' greatest personal enemies; Judith Van Helsing, a


former vampire hunter who eventually embraced the dark side. She faked


her own death in a rigged car explosion that she let her brother Alex


believe was his fault (causing him so much emotional trauma that he later


retreated to a monastery). She later became the powerful human ally of


Dracula-Magnus who called herself the Curator, becoming in time a


legendary figure of evil amongst vampire hunters whom many of them


staunchly seek the destruction of.** This includes the heroic she-vampire


called Vampirella.





Nevertheless, in recent years the Curator left her alliance with


Dracula-Magnus to become yet another rival of his in the


vampiric/supernatural underground.





 



Though Dracula-Magnus had originally garnered the attention of the


Polidorium to distract them from the activities of Dracula-Prime at the


latter's behest, upon his full mental liberation, the Magnus Clone--who


has since become one of the most powerful of all the rogue soul-clones of


Dracula--had by then earned the severe ire of the UN-sanctioned vampire


hunting org, including its present field director Abraham Sharp and


ground executive Ronnie Van Helsing.







Within just a few years, Dracula-Magnus would go on to become one of



the most dangerous supernatural threats on the Earth, considered by



many to be a super-terrorist (see entry for 2003), at least until another



powerful rogue soul-clone, Dracula-Danesti, appeared on the scene, and



Dracula-Mordante returned to power and prominence. And of course, the



later return to full power of Dracula-Prime, and his formation of the



Vampire Nation upon the end of the first decade of the 21st century,



would also serve to make the vampiric underworld's hegemony of power



much more complicated (see entry for 2010).










* See historian Alan Moore's report "The New European," as recorded in


the tome Vampirella/Dracula: The Centennial published by Harris


Comics. 







** Prof. Steven Pertwillaby has conjectured that there may be some


connection between Dracula-Magnus' power to animate and control blood


and the somewhat lesser variation of that power wielded by the Japanese,


perpetually adolescent she-vampire Monami. Her story is depicted in


Yoshihiro Nishimura's file VAMPIRE GIRL VS. FRANKENSTEIN GIRL,


which is in turn adapted from Shungiku Uchida's similarly named file that


was published in Japan in manga format.

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1998

La Mirada, FL   Lawrence Stewart Talbot is revived and finds himself

fighting Dracula-Lejos and Henry Frankenstein's Monster once more.

He seemingly destroys Dracula-Lejos during that conflict, whereas


Dracula-Lejos apparently slays the Monster in battle. Later, Talbot


convinces his friend, Caroline Cook, to impale him with silver again, once


more putting him into his state of semi-death. Cook buries Talbot in the


grounds of her castle, hoping one day to find a cure for his condition.*











Soon after these events, the U. S. government is informed of the


La Mirada incident. This, combined with the appearances in the Amazon


jungle of the Gill Man in 1997,** the brief but destructive appearance of a


huge reptilian creature named after the legendary Godzilla in New York


City (see Dean Devlin's and Roland Emmerich's 1998 report GODZILLA),


and general fear of the encroaching millennium due to reports of


impending asteroid bombardment and the Y2K rumor, provokes certain


government officials to take control of the League of Anti-Diabolists.












The government's first action is the removal of Prof. Damien Harmon as


the leader, and replacing him with Prof. Margaret "Maggie" Walsh, a


long time member of several black ops organizations. Walsh moves the


main headquarters from New York City to Sunnydale,


CA (a location where many horrifying, supernatural and other paranormal


events seem to occur with alarming regularity due to the presence of a


Hellmouth).

                                                                          Dr. Margaret "Maggie" Walsh

The organization's name is changed to "the Initiative," and experienced


elderly scholars and the ragtag dedicated monster hunting misfits are


replaced with cold, unfeeling scientists and youthful, unquestioning


soldiers (who are physically enhanced by Walsh and her team of


scientists, using similar methods to those developed in the 1940s by Dr.


Abraham Erskine, a.k.a., Dr. Reinstein, and Dr. Peter Drury).











Transylvania  After regaining control of Castle Dracula, Dracula-Prime


found himself in his latest harrowing clash with his powerful vampiric


daughter Lilith, along with scientist Dr. Charles Seward, said to be the


great-grandson of the Vampire Lord's old nemesis, Dr. John Seward.***







Seward developed a serum derived from his own blood designed to


cause  vampires to be unable to ingest blood if they were injected with it.


The serum proved successful, but it caused these vampires to become


carriers of a lethal, ebola-like virogen that could be passed onto humans


who were bitten by afflicted vampires, and was highly contagious via


simple physical contact between humans.






Dracula-Prime himself was infected, but before he could die


from the increasingly severe symptoms resulting from his inability


to consume blood, he battled Lilith to a standstill, during which


he realized that the blood of Dr. Charles Seward--who had died in the


course of the melee--was the key to a cure. As a result, the Lord of the


Undead managed to avert a worldwide epidemic that could have


potentially wiped out the human race so as to retain a plentiful supply of


human victims, as well as restoring his ability to consume their blood after


taking blood from the corpse of Seward despite his great distaste for


taking sustenance from a dead human.****

* See agent Jeff Rovin's report Return of the Wolf Man.

(There are two follow-up reports by David Jacobs entitled The Devil's Brood

and The Devil's Night, which relate some of the events that

took place soon afterwards involving Countess Marya Zeleska, her father

Dracula-Lejos, Henry Frankenstein's Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein,

and a werewolf descended from Wilfred Glendon, and these events will

soon be included in the timeline).

** See Notes On The Gill Man of the Upper Amazon by Prof.



Michael D. Winkle.







*** He may actually be the original Dr. John Seward's great-nephew, as



some further research may indicate.

**** See Glenn Greenberg's file Dracula: Lord of the Undead, published in

three books/issues by Marvels Comics.

_________________________________________________________________

1999

The original Frankenstein Monster is discovered frozen in suspended

animation in the Arctic by the virtuous scientist Dr. Burt Winslow. 

Winslow revives the Monster, hoping to befriend him, but the Monster

was extremely resentful over this latest revival, preferring the peace of

suspension. As a result, the Creature turned on Winslow,

believing him to have inflicted torment upon him by reviving him. The

result is a bitter enmity between the two, with Winslow and the Monster

clashing and attempting to destroy each other several times over the next

few years. 

The damage incurred to the Monster's vocal chords by Dracula-Prime

during their 1897 clash, later surgically repaired by Victoria Von

Frankenstein, was damaged again as a result of the decade +

suspension in ice, so he was initially mute once more upon this revival--

however, he would soon again regain his ability to speak. 

The Monster's brain also appears to have been addled, as it

often was during periods of lengthy suspension in ice, and he didn't seem

to remember much of what occurred to him during his activity from the

early 1970s to mid-1980s, and was much more vicious than usual.  

 For the next few years, the Monster wandered the world, getting involved

in many exploits, and seeming to succumb to destruction several times,

but always being revived again.  During this time he encountered and

battled an again revived Dracula-Prime, who the Monster once more did

not recognize due to his addled brain following his latest suspension; the

Vampire Lord likewise didn't recognize his old foe at this time due to the

state he found himself in following his revival near the beginning of the

1990s decade and his latest destruction by the League of

Anti-Diabolists during the 1990s (where it was evident that his memories

were severely affected by his experience of being destroyed by the

Montesi Formula and then partially revived a decade later).*

The Monster also encountered and battled another werewolf, this one

being a man named John Stewart, a gypsy who was afflicted with the

curse of lycanthropy,** as well as various other man-made creatures

created by experiments culled from those of the Frankenstein clan. He

once teamed up with a modern day descendant of Dr. Henry Jekyll, who

had duplicated the formula of his infamous 19th century ancestor to

become a vile new incarnation of Mr. Edward Hyde.***

The Demon Castle War occurs, initiated by Dracula-Mathias in a major

attempt to take control of the world. The powerful soul-clone is defeated in

this attempt by the warrior Julius Belmont.****

In the spring of this year, Larry Talbot again found himself revived.*****

Determined to find a cure for his curse, he attempted to locate surviving

relatives of lycanthrope Dr. Wilfred Glendon,****** a quest that ultimately

led him to the Amazon. Located there was a hidden laboratory where

samples of a very rare plant known as the Mariphasa Lupina, one of the

very few cures for the cursed form of lycanthropy, could be found--along

with a device that could project artificial moonlight, as the strange plant

only bloomed in the light of the moon. Talbot's attempt to use this plant to

cure himself were, unfortunately, ruined due to the unexpected arrival of

the Gill Man, who dwells in the waters of the Amazon. Exposed to the

artificially generated moonlight as a result of the ensuing conflagration,

Talbot transforms into the Wolf Man, and a fierce battle between the two

monsters commenced, with the Gill Man eventually retreating from the

battle due to the severe injuries he suffered.*******

Later, in the summer of this year, Talbot surfaced again, this time joining

forces with Jessica Van Helsing (who was inexplicably still fairly young in

a physical sense for unknown reasons) to stop his old nemesis

Dracula-Lejos from uncovering the buried body of Henry Frankenstein's

Monster, which the Vampire Lord again sought to control.********

Transforming into his lycanthropic form in the middle of the conflict, the

Wolf Man battled Dracula-Lejos, distracting the Count long enough so

that Van Helsing could dispatch him with a wooden crossbow arrow

through his heart. The Monster did indeed emerge from the rubble under

which he was buried, but he managed to escape without being again

brought under the control of Dracula-Lejos.*********

* The Monster's exploits during those few years were chronicled by agent

Donald F. Glut in his eleven files entitled The New Adventures of

Frankenstein, with the information provided for him by various

individuals, including Dr. Burt Winslow and Dr. Adam Spektor. These files

were provided to us by monster expert Dennis Drukentis beginning in 2002,

and added to our database after extensive research by Prof. Win Scott

Eckert.  The first file, which chronicles the Monster's initial encounter with

Dr. Burt Winslow, is called The New Adventures Of Frankenstein Tome #1:

Frankenstein Lives Again.

** See agent Don F. Glut's file The New Adventures Of Frankenstein Tome

#5: Frankenstein vs. the Werewolf.

*** See agent Don F. Glut's file The New Adventures of Frankenstein Tome

#9: The Curse of Dr. Jekyll.

**** See Konami's 'video game' file CASTLEVANIA: ARIA OF SORROW.











***** Talbot's revival following the events recorded in Jeff Rovin's file


Return of the Wolf Man were very briefly alluded to without much


explanation in David Jacobs' file The Devil's Brood. Further investigation


is clearly warranted.









****** Dr. Wilford Glendon's story is recorded in Robert Harris and John


Colton's file WEREWOLF OF LONDON. His grandson's story was


chronicled in the files The Devil's Brood and The Devil's Night, compiled by


David Jacobs, though Prof. Steven Pertwillaby has conjectured that


much of the info in those two files were deliberately altered upon


publication so as to defer from the truth in many instances, and we tend to


agree with him on much of this in general.









******* See "The Creature from the Black Lagoon vs. the Wolf Man" report



from the series of files known as Universal Monsters Kombat, compiled



by horror host Prof. Anton Griffin for Scary Monsters Magazine #53,



published by Dennis Drukentis Publishing; reprinted in The Midnight



Shadow Show: Prof. Griffin Journals. MONSTAAH scholar Win Scott



Eckert has postulated that the Gill Man seen in this report was possibly a



descendent of the original, who may have been killed in the latter half of



the 1950s decade as seen in Arthur A. Ross' report THE CREATURE


WALKS AMONG US.










******** See "The Wolf Man vs. Dracula: Final Battle" report from the series



of files known as Universal Monsters Kombat, compiled by horror host Prof.



Anton Griffin for Monster Memories #13 (a.k.a., the Scary Monsters



Magazine 2005 Yearbook), published by Dennis Drukentis Publications;



reprinted in The Midnight Shadow Show: Prof. Griffin Journals.










********* The above report had a notable error. It was written to suggest that



the Frankenstein Monster's insensate form was recovered by Dracula-Lejos



from the crumbled remains of the Talbot family mausoleum in Llanwely



following the Monster's ill-fated second battle with the Wolf Man there way



back in 1940. This was not the case. Rather, Dracula-Lejos was attempting



to recover the body of the Monster from the rubble and debris of the



laboratory that collapsed on him as seen in David Jacobs' report The



Devil's Night.


_________________________________________________________________

2000

The World   After the shattering events of this fateful year (see reports

Night World by F. Paul Wilson, Burial by Graham Masterton, and

other files dealing with numerous catastrophes that plagued our world,

which included an attempt by the powerful renegade soul-clone Dracula-

Mathias to take control of the Earth), remaining ex-members

of the League of Anti-Diabolists reform and start anew, creating

M.O.N.S.T.A.A.H. 

We rededicated ourselves to our herculean task of saving the world from


the Monstrous Spawn of Evil. 

This year another Dracula soul-clone of an extremely dangerous and


powerful nature was freed from his tomb in Transylvania, and traveled to


New Orleans in the USA to exact revenge upon his own perennial


nemesis, a modern day descendant of the Van Helsing clan who was


given the forename of Abraham, after his famous ancestor. This soul


-clone, referred to as Dracula-Judas due to his claims to be a vampirized


version of Judas Iscariot himself, attempted to strike at this modern


Abraham Van Helsing by attacking his daughter, Mary Heller-Van


Helsing.  The present day Abraham Van Helsing, who has taken on the


mission of vampire hunting that is a tradition in his lineage, intervened in


the situation and managed to destroy Dracula-Judas before he slew his


daughter, but this soul-clone would rise again a few years later.*

                                                                                        Dracula-Judas. Photo courtesy of Mary Heller-Van Helsing.









 Dracula-Prime is freed from being trapped in the form of a



spider due to the unwitting intervention of the original Frankenstein



Monster and a human ally of his when they stumbled upon Castle



Dracula. Dracula-Prime's memories are clearly occluded by



the revival process, and he doesn't recognize the Monster in this



instance, but quickly develops a strong hatred of him when the Monster



turned on him after being forced into servitude for a while. From that time



onwards, Dracula-Prime harvested a strong desire to destroy rather than



control the Monster.**









As a side effect of the Demon Castle War incident initiated by the



powerful renegade soul-clone Dracula-Mathias at the turn of the



Millennium, a dimensional hole is torn in the realm of Limbo, and



Dracula-Rominoff manages to escape back into the Earthly realm,



where he would begin plotting schemes anew. It has been conjectured



that the Frankenstein Monster copycat created by Louis Frankenstein 



who was also trapped there likewise escaped at this time.







Upon his restoration to the Earth dimension, Dracula-Rominoff learns


that Metroville, a large town connected to Cleveland, Ohio, is host to a


hellmouth. Wanting to gain control over it, he quickly locates another


monster-controlling talisman and seeks out and finds not only the


Frankenstein Monster copycat who was restored to the Earth dimension


with him, but also his own soul-clone Dracula-Klaus and his other former


involuntary minion, Louie Talbot, who had somehow been revived and


was now working as a coroner. Talbot had since mostly acquired control


over his lupine half, but Dracula-Rominoff uses his talisman to


permanently force Talbot into his lycan form, thus subjecting him to


Perpetual Lycanthropic Disorder, an effect that Louie has to this day


proven unable to reverse.







Dracula-Rominoff's studies in the occult had provided him with evidence


that the trio of a vampire, a werewolf, and a flesh golem working in tandem


as a sort of 'Unholy Trinity' or 'Triumvirate of Terror' have the potential


to gain extraordinary power together for some potent cosmic reason that


he had yet to fully fathom but readily understood; this is why, he learned,


that hellmouth energies in various locales often tended to draw three


such creatures together, and why Dracula-Prime and some of the more


mystically inclined soul-clones (like Dracula-Lejos) had such a great


interest in acquiring lycanthrope and flesh golem thralls to work in concert


with them.***







With this in mind, he gathered his personal triumvirate and sent them to


attack Metroville, drawing upon the power of the hellmouth to increase


the havoc they wreaked in preparation for Dracula-Rominoff's full


takeover. However, that plan was thoroughly ruined when for some


reason, Police Commissioner Matt Pearson realized that he could stop


these monsters after their eight-hour reign of destruction if he simply


attempted to talk to them rather than order more of his officers to attack


them. This tactic successfully penetrated Dracula-Rominoff's control over


the three and reached the inherent goodness inside each of them. The


three fully broke free from the Rominoff Clone's thralldom and


emotionally articulate to Pearson that they were tired of living in opposition


to the human race, and wanted to find a way to fit in and help.








As Pearson was a former associate of the League of


Anti-Diabolists--who had just recently been taken over by the U.S.


government and transformed into the Initiative--he recalled their success


in integrating monsters of this type into an extended nuclear family unit


back in the 1960s as the Munsters. However, seeing the clear warrior


prowess of this latest triumvirate of terror, Pearson saw a better and more


helpful way of integrating them into human society. Obtaining assistance


from a few remaining remnants of the LoAD, and calling in some


connections with the local government, he acquired the permission to train


these three monsters as police officers. Due to all the monstrous and


paranormal strangeness that began appearing in the Cleveland/Metroville


vicinity now that the hellmouth was open, they needed the power that this


trio could provide the local and county police forces.








Thus, Dracula-Klaus has earned the alternate designation of Officer


Dracula (he still apparently believes himself to be the actual Vlad


Dracula, albeit reformed).  He is most renowned for his leadership


skills and tactical ability, some of which was clearly inherited from the


psyche of Vlad Tepes.






 Louie Talbot now seems to prefer being called "Wolfman" at all times


since becoming trapped in that form (possibly not


wanting his real identity known outside of Pearson), and has earned the


alternate designation of Officer Wolfman, serving the force both as an


active officer and in the capacity as a forensic scientist/coroner.







This cat-loving Frankenstein Monster copycat--who took well to his


training despite being a bit feeble-minded due to the brain damage that


occurred during his creation--has been given the name Frank Stein,


though often called simply "Frank" by his friends and teammates, and


has earned the alternate designation of Officer Frankenstein.  He has


proven exemplary at security details.







This particular triumvirate of terror, who have been police officers in


Metroville for over ten years now, have proven to be of great assistance to


the large town (often referred to as a "city" due to its size, and it does


share a zip code with Cleveland) when it comes to dealing with the many


paranormal menaces that regularly afflict the area due to the presence of


the hellmouth, and have become unofficially known as the "Monster


Cops."****






As a result of this turnabout, Dracula-Rominoff chose not to carry out his


plans for the Metroville area of Cleveland, and instead began planning


other machinations, such as taking over a small European nation-state.
 








* It has been conjectured by our agent known as the Acolyte that


Dracula-Judas may be a soul-clone of a soul-clone, and was possibly


created by Dracula-Mathias for some unknown purpose. The Mathias


soul-clone also created another soul-clone of his own, Dracula-Vladislaus.


It is not known whether or not Dracula-Judas was acting autonomously of


Dracula-Mathias' control from 2000 onwards.  See agent Joel Soisson,


Patrick Lussier, and Wes Craven's file DRACULA 2000. 









It has been theorized that Judas Iscariot was transformed into a Dracula


soul-clone courtesy of the powerful soul-clone Dracula-Mathias during one


of the latter's time-traveling jaunts to the past, which may mean that


Dracula-Judas is actually the Judas Iscariot of an alternate timeline brought


into the "mainstream" timeline via time travel across the dimensional


barriers. This was done with the hope of Dracula-Mathias gaining another


infamous historical figure he could vampirize and gain as an ally by way of


the time-and-dimension traversing construct he controlled called


Castlevania (two other such historical figures of equal infamy whom


Dracula-Mathias vampirized and took as an ally were Gilles de Rais and


Countess Elizabeth Bathory).









However, Dracula-Judas, like Dracula-Vladislaus, appears to have gone


rogue. The magicks used by Dracula-Mathias to transform Iscariot into a


soul-clone of himself had peculiar effects on the type of vampire he


became, depriving him of the shape-shifting powers he would normally


possess, but making the vampiric enzymes in his saliva far more potent


than that of an ordinary vampire of the Varnaean strain.








Hence, if he even scratches a human being with one


of his fangs, they would become permanently infected with the vampiric


enzymes, and would have to "purge" themselves of the infection every day


for the rest of their lives by standing out in the sunlight early each day, a


process that was extremely agonizing to endure. Dracula-Judas also


permanently changes his appearance each time he is destroyed and


revived by some unknown process of "regeneration."

** See agent Donald F. Glut's file The New Adventures of


Frankenstein Tome #4: Frankenstein Meets Dracula.








*** This theory about the cosmic significance of these three specific


monster types working in tandem was expressed many years ago by the


founder of MONSTAAH, Prof. Chuck Loridans. The log he designed for the


org fully reflects this theory.








**** See Chip Zdarsky's online series of files entitled Monster Cops,


published on Tor.com.  Four of his most interesting files were reprinted in


the Chip Zdarsky's Monster Cops TPB, while one of these reports was


reprinted in Comics Festival! #1, both published by Legion of Evil Press.

_________________________________________________________________




2001



Dracula-Rominoff appears in Sunnydale, CA to seek out and enthrall


the Slayer Buffy Summers.  It was here revealed that the


Rominoff soul-clone had a long-standing and bitter enmity with the


Turokian vampire Spike that went far back in time (specifically, the year


1898). Ultimately, Buffy used her immense willpower to avoid being


transformed into Dracula-Rominoff's vampiric concubine, and she


defeated him in a fierce one-on-one battle. The Vampire Lord's defeat


also freed Buffy's close friend and ally Xander Harris from his control, as


the young monster-fighter nearly became Dracula's pseudo-vampiric


minion similar to the members of the Renfield family who have frequently


served Dracula-Prime and several of the soul-clones for well over a


century.










Fleeing back to Europe after his defeat by Buffy Summers, Dracula-



Rominoff realized he couldn't go back to Castle Dracula in Transylvania,



since Dracula-Prime had by now returned and reclaimed the castle.



Visaria, as the mystical energies suffusing the locale were perfect for



broadening his power base.  He had a large and elegant castle built for



himself there, which he named Castle Rominoff, and he began referring



to himself as Count Rominoff again to keep his true nature hidden. It was



around this time that the nearby tiny nation of Pokolistan fell under the



domination of the brutal Kryptonian despot Vee-Zod, the first cousin of



the infamous General Dru-Zod, after the former had escaped from the



other-dimensional prison realm called the "Phantom Zone" when it



destabilized this year with two accomplices, Quex-Ul and Zaora. Calling



himself "General Zod" to cash in on the legend behind his cousin,



Vee-Zod began expanding his ambitions in the rest of the Balkans, thus



beginning his bitter rivalry with Dracula-Rominoff.










Dracula-Prime was revived from his last defeat and attempted to seek



cruel revenge on the original Frankenstein Monster by blackmailing a



scientist into dissecting the Creature into pieces while drugged into



immobility but still fully conscious. The plan was thwarted, and both



Dracula-Prime and the Monster were seemingly destroyed at the end of



this incident, along with the lycanthrope John Stewart, who was also



present during this event.*











An adventuring agent of the American branch of the Van Helsing family,



Hugo Van Helsing, along with his friend and ally, attorney Zigor Side,



end up in an encounter with a possibly unidentified soul-clone of Dracula



while investigating the murder of porn star Winona Seward, a relative of



Dr. John Seward, an old enemy of Dracula-Prime (who also battled the



soul-clone Dracula-Varney).**










* See agent Don F. Glut's file The New Adventures of Frankenstein Tome


#11:  Frankenstein and the Evil of Dracula.







** See the file Cold Gotha: The Return of Dracula by Guillaume Lebeau.

_________________________________________________________________

2002

Dracula-Prime is again revived this year (see next paragraph).

The original Frankenstein Monster again turns up alive, where he regains


the memories of being befriended by famed immortal monster hunter


Ulysses Bloodstone at some unknown point in the past. Intending to


fulfill a promise once made to his ally, the Monster sought out and


befriended Ulysses' successor in monster hunting, his daughter Elsa,


giving her the necklace known as the Bloodstone Choker, which was


made for her by her father with fragments of the power-bestowing


Bloodgem.  With it, she could attain his attributes of immortality,


regenerative abilities, immunity to vampire bites, and peak human physical


traits. 








The Monster, who has now taken the name of Adam, then spent a good


deal of time residing at Bloodstone Manor with Elsa Bloodstone and her


mother, frequently joining Elsa in her monster-hunting missions. During


the course of their adventures together, the Monster and Elsa


encountered an again revived Dracula-Prime and N'Kantu the "Living


Mummy."*











This year the cloned copycat of the original Frankenstein Monster who


would later take on the name Johnny Frankenstein, came under the


control of the Ordinance and became part of its short-lived unit of monster


soldiers called the Howling Commandos (named after an elite World War


II group of skilled soldiers culled from the nations comprising the Allies).


This team has also sometimes been referred to as the Creature


Commandos, named after the code name of an elite team of soldiers


artificially transformed into monstrous beings by an early unit of the


Ordinance/CIALD during World War II to fight on behalf of the Allies. 











By this year the soul-clone Dracula-Lykos had secretly become the head


of a Los Angeles nightclub called the Scarlet Countess, ** possibly to


set up a rival base to challenge the various offshoots of the demonic


Turokian strain of vampires who seem to dominate at least this section of


California (but Dracula-Lykos and his allies apparently managed to stay


off the radar of the heroic Aurelius vampire Angel and his various allies


then working for his company, Angel Investigations).












The Lykos Clone engages in a scheme to revive two members of the


Ruthven vampire clan, who he wanted to ally himself with, perhaps to


bolster his challenge to the Cali dominance of the Aurelius vampires. To


these ends, he had his servant from the Renfield family acquire a copy of


the dark magickal tome known as the Ruthvenian, which was, of course,


named after the Ruthven family, which boasted the notorious and


powerful vampire Lord Ruthven.***









Samuel Kent (grandson of Clark Kent, the powerful Kryptonian hero


who was raised on Earth, and later became the posthuman champion


dubbed Superman by the press), arrives at Castle Rominoff in Visaria


this year while accompanied by his wife and fellow reporter, Chloe


Sullivan, and a young photojournalist from Galaxy Broadcasting known


as Justin Edge, to conduct an interview with Count Rominoff about the


growing political tension in that area of Europe due to the military


machinations of General Vee-Zod after he became the despotic ruler of


the tiny Balkan nation of Pokolistan. 









Since the Count was actually Dracula-Rominoff,


Kent's wife Chloe became victimized by the Vampire Lord, who hoped to


use her as bait to acquire the greatly powerful Sam Kent as a vampiric


foot soldier in his war against the second General Zod , while Edge barely


escaped being victimized by the Vampire Lord's vampiric consort


Elizabeth.






At one point, Kent has to battle a pack of werewolves under Dracula's


control to protect his wife.  Realizing Count Rominoff's true nature,


Kent confronts him, only to fall victim to the Prince of Darkness'


nigh-irresistible mesmerism.





However, when Dracula-Rominoff bit Kent and begins consuming his


blood in an attempt to vampirize him, the alien aspects of the hero's


hemoglobin prove incompatible with the Lord of the Undead's vampiric


system, and he falls into a catatonic state as if poisoned. This frees Kent


and his wife from Dracula-Rominoff's influence, and the hero and his


entourage promptly depart Castle Rominoff while making note of the


situation there.****








After the alien blood works its way out of his system, Dracula-Rominoff


recovers, and his two year war with General Vee-Zod during his control


of Pokolistan ended when a confluence of factors (including the further


intervention of Sam Kent) removes the Kryptonian despot from his


control over that nation. and re-entraps him and his minions in the


void-like dimension known as the Phantom Zone.








Like Dracula-Prime, Dracula-Rominoff is able to resist going into a


catatonic state during the daylight at certain times if his power is


augmented by various mystical means, though he must, of course, avoid


contact with direct sunlight or he will greatly weaken. This is not typical of


Varnaean vampires, but it's the norm amongst other vampire


strains, such as the Dacian and the Sparkoi. 










* See agents Dan Abnett's and Andy Lanning's file Bloodstone.







**   It was here also revealed that Dracula-Lykos by now has a vampiric


daughter named Martine.







*** See agent Don Glut's file COUNTESS DRACULA'S ORGY OF


BLOOD. 







It's unlikely that the Lord Ruthven who was revived by Dracula-Lykos and


Renfield as told in this file was the original, who was a rival of


Dracula-Prime and was first reported in the early 19th century file The


Vampyre by Dr. John Polidori. More likely, the Lord Ruthven from
.

agent Glut's above file was a less powerful member of the same clan who


took the name of his notorious relative, as the entire Ruthven lineage was


cursed with vampirism.








**** See Jeph Loeb and Geoff Johns' file "The House of Dracula" (not to


be confused with other files of the same or similar title) in


Superman Vol. 2 #180, published by DC Comics, and reprinted in DC


Comics Presents: Superman #1.  As one would expect, many of the details


of the published account of this story were greatly exaggerated and


embellished by the writers for both entertainment and disinformation


purposes, including an effort to make the tale appear as if it fit into the


then-ongoing continuity of DC's Superman comics.









***** For the full skinny on Superman, which this timeline adheres to,


please see Prof. Dennis Power's article on the Man of Steel, where he


uncovered info on Samuel Kent and other members of the Kent lineage.

_________________________________________________________________


2003 



By this year, it appears that the Dracula-Xaviar soul-clone was again


active, and by now was again fully complicit with Dracula-Prime's goal to


us the former's influence in the literary community to portray     


vampires in sympathetic, sexy, and aesthetically appealing ways.


       

          

Thus, he influenced writer Stephanie Myers to do that very thing by writing


her Twilight series of books (later turned into a movie franchise). This book


series was a highly exaggerated, romanticized, and fanciful telling of the


Cullens family, who are members of a Dacian sub-strain of vampires.





Prof. Greg Long has presented the following theory regarding how this


may have occurred, printed in his own words:

 

"Supposedly, the idea for Twilight came to [Meyers] in a dream June 2,

2003. Whichever soul-clone influenced her, I believe he was influenced by

Henry Fitzroy, from Tanya Huff's Blood files. Henry writes romance novels

and has been for a bit when Vicki Nelson meets him. The first book was

published in 1991. So obviously, Henry has been writing since at least

sometime in the 1980s if not longer. He's been a vampire for 450 years, so

he should be of some note in the vampire community; plus, he was the

only acknowledged illegitimate child of King Henry VIII. For at least 15

years by the time Meyers was influenced, he was known to be a vampire

who wrote romance novels. Therefore, the soul-clone that influenced her

was influenced by Henry."








Dracula-Rominoff makes an appointment with the sinister Los


Angels-based corporation known as Wolfram and Hart to complain about


services owed him. This occurrs during the LA branch's takeover by


the heroic Turokian vampire warrior Angel.






Here Dracula-Rominoff ran into his old foe Spike, who,, like Angel, had


his soul restored to him, and was also of the Turokian strain.


Then trapped in an intangible form and anchored to the locale, Spike


uses this situation to create harmful mischief for the Vampire Lord, who


responds in kind.*








Shortly after recovering from his last bout of destruction, Dracula-Prime


welcomed Dr. Bruce Banner II, a.k.a., the Hulk, into Castle Dracula 


when the latter was in Transylvania and inadvertently stumbled upon and


drove off a group of European monster hunters who had launched an


assault on the Vampire Lord. Dracula-Prime quickly hatched a plan to


make the Hulk his servant and bodyguard in place of the Frankenstein


Monster, but that scheme ended up falling through when Dracula 


discovered his mesmeric power didn't work on the Hulk, and the two


ended up in a scuffle that ended with the Hulk departing Castle


Dracula.**








The dessicated corpse of Dracula-Judas is secretly removed from its


containment in London (where Mary Van Helsing had taken over as its


keeper three years earlier) by agents hired by a wealthy man named


Lowell, who is suffering from a rare and fatal degenerative disease. He is


hoping to use the blood of the new revived Vampire Lord to cure him of


the affliction, and is assisted in this endeavor by a team that includes his


girlfriend Elizabeth Blaine.  The Vatican keeps strong tabs on this


particular soul-clone, since they are aware he's actually the vamprized


form of Judas Iscariot (believed to have been transformed into a Dracula


soul-clone courtesy of the time-traveling soul-clone, Dracula-Mathias); for


this reason, they send their crusading warrior priest Father Uffizi after the


team to not only destroy Dracula-Judas, but also to help him achieve


absolution for his complicity in the crucifixion of Christ (this is likely the


same reason why the Vatican took direct interest in sending its previous


agent Gabriel Van Helsing against Dracula-Vladislaus, another


soul-clone believed to be created by Dracula-Mathias, but has more or


less ignored Dracula-Prime and the various other soul-clones).











Father Uffizi slew Lowell moments after he used the blood of the


weakened and captive Dracula-Judas to cure him of his degenerative


illness via an injection, and then battled and defeated the new-freed but


still greatly weakened Vampire Lord. However, the priest was in turn


attacked from behind and injured by the now vamped Elizabeth before he


could permanently destroy Dracula-Judas and give him his final rites.


Dracula-Judas and Elizabeth then departed together, deciding not to


finish off Uffizi due to the vampire's hope that the hunter clergyman will


follow them anew.***

A major incident involving Dracula-Magnus was recorded this year, as the


mighty rogue soul-clone dealt with major assaults from both the


Polidorium and the two evil djinn-like beings Samyaza and Azazyel, who


were accidentally released from their eons-long entrapment in a vessel


hidden within the depths of the Dead Sea, and who claims they are


fallen angels called the Nephilum who had been punished for rebelling


against God and were responsible for creating vampires.







Dracula-Magnus and the Polidorium are forced to join forces

against the god-like Nephilum to rid the Earth of a threat greater than


they consider each other. This ends with the Vampire Lord and Ronnie


Van Helsing and her team of vampire hunters calling off their temporary


truce but unable to score a clear victory over the other.****







Metroville area, Cleveland, Ohio  Vampirella visits this region, possibly to


investigate the hellmouth there. However, rather than coming across


demons to battle, she instead faces a menace of a most different sort


when she finds herself accused of public indecency by the local police


due to her extremely skimpy outfit. She refuses to be taken into custody,


and this brings her into conflict with her old friend and almost-romantic


interest Dracula-Klaus, now Officer Dracula of the police force. Officer


Dracula attempts to go easy on her out of deference to her heroic acts


and their past relationship, so he simply writes her a fine for $25. However,


she is obstinate about paying it, and punches Officer Dracula instead. He


pursues her when she attempts to escape custody, and the two end up in


a scuffle until the Vampire Lord-turned-police-officer offers her an


alternative deal. That deal is for her to pose in revealing pics for the


upcoming police calendar, which ends up selling so many copies that it


provides big funds for the Metroville police department (despite her


posing in pics with Officer Frankenstein wearing nothing but speedos).


However, Vampi refuses another date offer from Officer Dracula just


before she departs the Cleveland area.*****













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


IDW Publishing, and reprinted in the Spike Omnibus.









** See Peter David's file "Blood Count," published in Monster-Size Hulk #1



by Marvels Comics. However, the version of the story published by Marvels



from David's report was greatly altered, with many details occurring



differently than the actual events, including the level of the Hulk's power



and the destruction of Castle Dracula. Further, this version of the Hulk is



conjectured to be Dr. Bruce Banner II, the son of David Bruce Banner,



whose story was told in the series of extended files entitled THE



INCREDIBLE HULK (not to be confused with other files of the same



name), as well as three subsequent files, THE RETURN OF THE



INCREDIBLE HULK, THE TRIAL OF THE INCREDIBLE HULK, and THE



DEATH OF THE INCREDIBLE HULK (where David Bruce Banner's story



ends).







The existence of Dr. Bruce Banner II, son of Dr. David Bruce Banner (the


green Hulk) and nephew of Dr. Robert Bruce Banner (the gray Hulk), has


been uncovered via research conducted by agent Henry Covert, upon


studying the highly exaggerated and partially fictionalized information found


in Ang Lee's file HULK.







Research conducted on uncovering the story behind Dr. Bruce Banner I and


Dr. David Bruce Banner, mistakenly portrayed as being the same individual


in the long-running series of comic books published by Marvels Comics, is


presented in this article by Prof. Dennis Power.









*** See Patrick Lussier and Joel Soisson's file DRACULA II: THE


ASCENSION.








**** See Jason Henderson's file "The Elders," published by Digital Webbing


under the banner of Image Comics in The Sword of Dracula Vol. 1 #1-6, for


a slightly embellished version of the events.







The true nature of the Nephilum is unknown, but they may be "fallen"


angels as they claim, or upper echelon members of the djinn race, or


possibly even formerly imprisoned members of the Old Gods. Since some


of the Old Gods, such as the primordial Lilith and Aurelius, are believed to


have created certain vampiric strains, the Nephilum may have been


speaking in broad generalities and even somewhat metaphorically in saying


they created the "vampire race" (which is actually several strains following


a similar supernatural pattern, with a few scientific strains resembling their


supernatural counterparts), and in referring to Dracula as their "son."






Nevertheless, they were clearly able to utilize Dracula-Magnus' life-force


for their own purposes, even temporarily rendering him insensate, thus


enabling the Polidorium to finally capture and contain him--until Ronnie


Van Helsing went against orders to free her great nemesis, feeling she had


no choice but to enlist his aid against what she believed to be the greater of


two evils, the uber-dangerous Nephilum.







In the published version of this file by Digital Webbing via Image Comics,


Ronnie Van Helsing mentions how the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker is


mistaken in many of its details regarding Vlad Dracula, and speaks of


Dracula-Magnus as if he is the "only" Dracula. This may be changes made


during publishing, as there is evidence that Ronnie is well aware that


Dracula-Magnus is not the "real"/original Vlad Dracula, but a copy who has


gained many additional powers due to further studies of the occult. 





Nevertheless, she most certainly does believe he is the most dangerous


vampire on the planet, and he does lead a clan of his own independently of


Dracula-Prime as of the 1990s. She is also likely well aware of the


soul-clone situation, as is the rest of the Polidorium.






However, Dracula-Prime was believed to have


been permanently destroyed by underworld intel at this time, and due to


that and her very personal crusade against Dracula-Magnus in particular,


the latter soul-clone was the "real" Lord of Vampires as far as Ronnie was


concerned. She has also likely become aware of the fact that Dracula-


Magnus is indeed a member of the actual Dracula lineage, and a native


son of Wallachia, whose evil nature and skill in the occult made him a


threat worthy of wiping off the face of the Earth even before he became a


soul-clone.




***** See Chip Zdarsky's report "Indecent Proposal," published in


Vampirella Comics Magazine #7 by Harris Comics, and later reprinted in


Chip Zdarsky's Monster Cops TPB by Legion of Evil Press.







In the above file, Vampirella remarked that she cannot read English very


well, and this is why she abruptly left the restaurant when Dracula-Klaus


asked her to tell him what was on the menu during their second and final


date decades earlier. In actuality, Vampi was being facetious, and simply


wanted to enjoy taking advantage of Officer Dracula's gullibility. Her actual


reason for storming out of the restaurant all those years ago was her


sudden realization that Dracula-Klaus was simply a rebound romance to


distract her from her estangement with Adam Van Helsing during the time


he left her to date her former best friend and ally, Pantha; she simply didn't


want to lead him on any further, nor did she wish to seek solace in denial.


_________________________________________________________________


2004



Damaged and insensate following the culmination of the war between


Visaria and Pokolistan, Dracula-Rominoff is somehow


entombed in a Boston cemetery. He is accidentally revived by a


descendent of the original Oswald Cobblepot, who shares his relative's


mutant deformity and carries on the criminal mantle of the Penguin for


several years. Upon his resurrection, the formidable Dracula-Rominoff


transforms not only the Penguin, but also a copycat of the


infamous disfigured homicidal criminal known as the Joker, into his


semi-vampiric thralls.  He then begins preying upon Bostinites in


the hope of creating a vampiric power base there, when he finds


himself in conflict with the iteration of the Batman indigenous to Boston.


The masked hero not only defeats the Vampire Lord, but also discovers a


chemical means of reversing the semi-vampiric state of his infected


minions.*










While hiding out in Italy during a time on the lam from the Initiative,


David Bruce Banner encountered, and was helped by, Jack Russell in


exchange for locking him up in a cage for the duration of this month's


full moon. Though Banner attempted to do as agreed, circumstances


went awry, resulting in a tussle between Russell in his lupine form and


Banner's equally monstrous alter-ego the Hulk, though it ended


unresolved.**







Towards the middle of this year, Dracula-Prime--or possibly one of his


soul-clones--quietly manipulated writer Stephenie Meyer to scribe a


quilogy of novels featuring fictionalized exploits of a special member of a


rare sub-strain of the Dacian vampire bloodline, Edward Cullen, focusing


upon his passionate romantic relationship with a teen girl named Isabella


"Bella" Swan, which occurred in the small rainswept town of Forks,


Washington. The Vampire Lord compelled Meyer to change and/or


exaggerate many details of the real story of Cullen and Swan that her


research uncovered, so that she would present a more benign image of


vampires to the young adult readers her books were intended for, thus


perpetuating a seductive image of vampirism that the Prince of Darkness


believed would work to the advantage of his undead race. 







The first novel in the quilogy, Twilight, was completed and published a


year later, and it proved to be a huge hit, particularly with a young teen girl


audience, and the three subsequent books in the series did quite well


also. The four books would be produced into five successful major motion


pictures over the succeeding years, thus making Meyer famous, and


enabling Dracula's plan of covert psychological warfare to succeed


beyond his original expectations.***






Having now reached the age of 13, Vlady Dracula's full vampiric abilities


manifested (he had grown up with mostly human traits following his birth,


much like his older sister Ingrid), probably due to the influence of the


Blood Mirror.  By this point in time, Vlady Dracula's father, Dracula-


Edgar, was driven from Transylvania by an angry mob, so he had taken


up a new residence, that of an ancient castle in England. Since the new


strain of vampire that this soul-clone represented as a result of one of


Dracula-Prime's experiments could easily subsist on animal blood and


the consumption of raw meat, he was able to keep a relatively low profile


in his new home.






 Upon manifesting his full vampiric nature, Vlady


Dracula proved quite powerful, possessing nearly the full range of


Dracula-Prime's power; as an example of his level of power, his


mesmerism was potent enough that he could actually entrance his own


father.  He also displayed other psychic abilities not common to a typical


vampire, such as the capacity for prophetic dreams.







However, just as his sister Ingrid, despite proclaiming a desire to be the


most evil vampire in creation, displayed a degree of redeeming character


traits at times (even including falling in love at one point), Vlady did so to


a much greater extent, forming close friendships with certain human


beings, and even fitting in at a regular school where he sometimes


became a target of bullies due to his reputation as a "nice guy." 









Soon after his vampiric nature manifested, Vlady proved he had the ability


to safely wear an ancient enchanted crown whose power would destroy


any unworthy vampire who donned it. As a result of both his precog


abilities and his ability to don the crown, he came to the attention of a sect


of ascetic vampire seers known as the Moksha. They declared the young


Vlady Dracula to be 'The Chosen One,' a vampire whom ancient


prophecy decreed would lead a new golden age for vampirekind.


MONSTAAH agent and researcher Prof. Zahir Blue believes that this likely


means Vlady Dracula is under the protection of Dracula-Prime. 








Prof. Blue has also uncovered what he describes as circumstantial


evidence that Dracula-Edgar not only has beneficial relations with the


Moksha sect, but also the highly influential Mystikos sect, who is


believed to be comprised of prominent members of the Corvini vampire


strain, these members of the Undead covertly holding powerful positions


in the human corporate world. Vlady and his family also found themselves


targeted by vampire hunter Erik Van Helsing and his son (whom he was


training to follow in his footsteps), one of the contemporary members of


that famous lineage whose bloodline boasts one of the most formidable


and tireless families of hereditary human slayers of the Undead (though


his competence in this area was stifled by the constant depression he


suffered as a result of his wife leaving him due to his zeal in following his


famed family's multi-generational vocation, and heavily encouraging their


son to do the same).****






                                                                 Dracula-Edgar and his family.  Photo courtesy of Ingrid Dracula.

* A somewhat fictionalized version of this incident was told in Michael


Gougen's and Seung Eun Kim's report THE BATMAN VS. DRACULA.

The fictionalized details included, but certainly weren't limited to, Queens


being referred to as "Gotham City" (a code word for any city inhabited by


one of the crime fighters who took up the mantle of the Batman, which was


used for the Dark Knight's fictionalized adventures published by DC


Comics); Batman being depicted as if he was the first Bruce Wayne (who


was the original Batman); and certain discrepancies involving Dracula's


powers. It's likely, however, that following this revival, Dracula-Rominoff's


power level was temporarily depleted, thus preventing him from utilizing at


least the full range of his shape-shifting powers.









** See Steve Niles' file "Hulk By Night" in Monster-Size Hulk #1, published


by Marvels Comics. However, certain details of the story were incorrect,


as many events seen in published issues of comics from both Marvels


and DC that involve super-heroes should be taken with many grains of salt


due to the level of exaggeration and disinformation typically presented in


the officially published versions of those stories.








*** I am indebted to fellow researcher Prof. Zahir Blue for uncovering this


important bit of information that points to the truth behind the story of


Edward Cullen and his adopted vampiric family, which is led by patriarch


and physician Carlyle Cullen. The present whereabouts and fate of the


Cullen clan is unknown at this writing.





**** A somewhat fictionalized version of Vlady Dracula and his family's


story was adapted to television by BBC Wales beginning in 2006 from


Danny Robins' file YOUNG DRACULA (which included its "family-friendly"


tone and the depiction of the troubled Erik Van Helsing in a buffoonish


fashion). The Corvini strain of vampires are well known from the series of


files by Len Wiseman and others designated UNDERWORLD.

  

We are indebted to Prof. Zahir Blue, MONSTAAH's foremost expert on


vampires, for his extensive research that uncovered the reality behind the


events depicted on the TV series by BBC Wales, as well as its connections


to other aspects of the vampire world.

_________________________________________________________________


2005



 Dracula-Rominoff forms an alliance with the modern day


Mr. Edward Hyde, and regains control over Michael Frankenstein with


the aid of certain chemicals stolen by Hyde.*  Upon bolstering their ranks


with a pack of two-headed werewolves that they call the Wolf-Men,


Dracula-Rominoff and Mr. Hyde engage in a plan to take control of the


world via summoning the Lovecraftian entities of tremendous and


nightmarish power known as the Old Ones, by using the supposedly


"soulless" form of Michael as a living portal.**

  

Part of their scheme is to create an army of soldiers who consisting of


vamped Hyde-like creatures that would serve the will of the Old Ones


upon their return.








Dracula-Rominoff and Mr. Hyde's unholy alliance is challenged by a


group of heroes consisting of Sara Pezzini (a.k.a., Witchblade), Jackie


Estacado (a.k.a., the Darkness), Lara Croft (a.k.a., the Tomb


Raider), and the Magdalena--along with the modern Dr. Henry


Jekyll--who manage to defeat Dracula-Rominoff, Mr. Hyde, and their


horde of Wolf-Men. The Monster was evidently freed from the control of


Dracula-Rominoff after this, and he was soon to become a regular ally of


Eva, Daughter of the Dragon after renewing their long-time


acquaintance.***











A few months later, Dracula-Rominoff engages in yet another scheme to


acquire god-like power and dominance over the world. To this end, the


 Vampire Lord acquires the deadly book of dark magick


known as the Necronomicon Ex Mortis. He uses the power of that tome


to initially take control of a pack of werewolves and a group of reanimated


mummies, sending them along with his usual crew of vampiric minions to


strike at New York City in the course of this plot.  This brings the Vampire


Lord into conflict with "The Chosen One" known as Ash Williams, the


Frankenstein Monster copycat who called himself Michael, and Dracula-


Rominoff's posthuman warrior daughter Eva, the latter of whom had


accidentally been permanently brought from the late 19th century to this


year via a time vortex courtesy of Ash. 








During the battle, Dracula-Rominoff successfully gains the power he


sought and transforms all of New York City into his domain, which he


refers to as "New Transylvania." However, Ash, Michael, and Eva 


manage to reverse the effect, insuring that Dracula-Rominoff's victory


occurs only in an alternate reality, and the version native to their own


reality never acquires his god-like power or conquers New York City.****










For a time during his brief sojourn in the late 19th century mentioned


above, Ash Williams contracted the curse of lycanthropy (which may have


accelerated in manifesting due to nearby mystical factors), and while in


lupine form he battled Eva until her mentor and ally in that time period, the


monk Father Finnegan, found a way to quickly nullify the lycanthropic curse


Ash was afflicted with.











A scientific invasion crew from the planet Ummo begin their clandestine


infiltration of MONSTAAH, and implant at least two double agents in the


organization. This would lead to an ongoing situation unofficially known as


the "Secret Invasion," and the conflagration that resulted once it was


finally discovered ended with the dissolution of the original MONSTAAH


(though the org would be revived a few years later).









 

This year, the virogen created many centuries ago by the Council of Nine


to create the Simulant branches of inferior vampires and werewolves  is


discovered by the wayward genius and scholar Maynard


Crandall. He recreates the serum used to administer it, albeit without


ever learning from whom it originated, however. He not only mystically


mutates himself with it, but attempts to recreate vast numbers of "pure


blood" vampires, werewolves, and other monsters by turning his own


modified fleas loose on the populace of L.A.







 Crandall is thwarted in this twisted scheme by the gruff detective


 turned monster hunter known as Cal McDonald.*****








 It should be noted that McDonald was unaware of the actual


"pure blood" vampires and werewolves until crossing swords with


Crandall. Instead, he believed the inferior supernaturally-diluted vampires


and werewolves who began infiltrating L.A. in large numbers during the


'00s following the fall of that city's branch of Wolfram & Hart were the


"real deal," and the "pure bloods" were mere products of superstition.








* This entire tale is chronicled in the Monster War mini-series,


jointly published by Top Cow Comics and Dynamite Comics, and


reported by Christopher Golden, Tom Sniegoski, Joyce Chin, Vitor


Ishimura, and Scott Kester.

 

** The version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde seen here is likely the same one


last seen in Don Glut's file The New Adventures of Frankenstein Tome #9:


The Curse of Dr. Jekyll. Since the Mr. Hyde persona began worshipping the


Old Ones, the twin personae of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were split off into


two separate physical beings, and the modern Hyde's physical attributes


were enhanced into superhuman levels, much like those his predecessor


eventually gained by the time he battled Gabriel Van Helsing and joined


the 1898 version of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.









*** There is much evidence against the assertion of Mr. Hyde that


man-made monsters do not possess souls. More likely he was speaking at


least semi-metaphorically, and there was something about the Monster's


composite nature and alchemically enhanced bloodstream as a flesh golem


that enabled him to serve as the ideal living portal for the Old Ones


to use in returning to the Earthly plane.








**** See the file "Ash vs. Dracula," chronicled by agents James Kuhoric


and Kevin Sharpe in the ongoing Army of Darkness issue #'s 8-11,


published by Dynamite Comics, and reprinted in the Army of


Darkness: Ash vs. the Classic Monsters TPB.








***** This was recorded in Steve Niles' 4-part report logged under the


master file of Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery, published in


illustrated story format by Dark Horse Comics. Niles is the official


biographer of McDonald, collecting his stories by careful research and


investigation, and publishing them under the cover of "fiction."

_________________________________________________________________


2006



Possibly as a detrimental side effect of his frequent excursions into frozen


suspended animation followed by an eventual revival, the original


Frankenstein Monster suddenly found the flesh and internal organs of


his patchwork physical form becoming dangerously necrotic, and he fell


into a deep catatonic state. His care was ministered by his old ally Dr.


Victoria Von Frankenstein (whose physical aging had been greatly


retarded while still in her youth by a regenerative serum formulated by her


late grandfather), who desperately but unsuccessfully attempted to find a


way to cure this degenerative state. 









She finally located brilliant biologist Dr. David Bruce Banner, and


rescued him when he was abducted by the Ordinance. Out of gratitude,


Banner agreed to aid Frankenstein in her goal to reverse the Monster's


degeneration, and the two combined their expertise for several weeks in


more unsuccessful attempts to revive her patient, including the


re-administration of the alchemical formula Victor


Frankenstein injected the Monster with as a major component in the


process that brought the Creature to life.








However, Banner was to discover that Victoria had plans for him that she



didn't mention for obvious reasons, as she believed the only chance the



Monster (who had by now taken on the forename Adam) had for revival



was a transfusion of Banner's gamma-irradiated blood in addition to all



the other treatments they gave the Creature. Subduing Banner for this



purpose, Victoria was proven correct, and the Monster revived just in



time to prevent Banner--who had now transformed into the Hulk--from



harming Victoria in a fit of rage. Nevertheless, the Hulk and the Monster



parted as allies when the latter aided the former in repelling another group



of Ordinance agents who invaded the laboratory in another attempt to



abscond with the Hulk.*










* See Jeff Parker's file "It's Alive! ALIVE!!," published in Monster-Size Hulk



#1 by Marvels Comics. It should be noted that certain elements of the



published account were embellished or exaggerated, including the level of



power possessed by the Hulk, along with the level of power the



Frankenstein Monster obtained after receiving the



transfusion of Banner's gamma-irradiated blood.






As has almost always been in the case with the highly sensationalized tales


of the Hulk published by Marvels, the real forename of the green version of


the Hulk's alter-ego, David, wasn't mentioned.

_________________________________________________________________


2007



This year it was revealed that the soul-clone Dracula-Lykos, whose


essence had taken possession of another host body, had


constructed a mansion designed to resemble an antiquated castle close to


Los Angeles, and was apparently successful in establishing a rival


vampiric beachead to the Turokian vampire sects that traditionally


dominated this section of California. He was also visited during this year


by the vampiric Countess Elisabeth Bathory, who claimed to be his


"wife."* 









The Lykos soul-clone met his destruction this year while he was out one


evening searching for victims with his servant from the Renfield family,


when the two of them realized that they didn't take daylight savings time


into account, and the Vampire Lord found himself immolated by the rising


sun.**










Eva, the crusading posthuman warrior daughter of Dracula-Rominoff,



traveled to New York City in this year to hunt her father down following



their recent encounter, only to find both of them threatened by a primordial



creature of great power called Kar'Tha'Naa, who claimed to acquire



nourishment from every human life taken by a vampire. Eva and Dracula-



Rominoff defeated this creature with the intervention of their old



acquaintance, the man-made monster called Michael Frankenstein, who



was now a holy man and devout worshipper of God.









After Kar'Tha'Naa's defeat, Dracula-Rominoff drank blood from the



entity's giant heart, and his power apparently increased to a far greater



extent than ever before, after which he departed to plot further schemes. 



Following this, Michael agreed to become a regular ally of Eva despite



having now taken up the path of peace.***







 

Dracula-Magnus resurfaced this year when Ronnie Van Helsing 


managed to ferret out his location in Wyoming, but he walked away from


the battle after taking the life of one of Ronnie's valued agents in the


Polidorium, Badi Nascimento, during the melee. As a result of Ronnie


also targeting Dracula-Magnus' former ally now turned underworld rival,


the Curator (whom at this time Ronnie was still unaware is actually her


corrupt older sister Judith, whom she incorrectly believes to be dead), she


and her fellow agents ran afoul of Vampirella during this mission, who


was also making an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to find and neutralize


the Curator.****







* MONSTAAH researcher Prof. Win Scott Eckert has theorized that the


"wife" designation may simply refer to an official type of alliance between


two vampires, much as Countess Bathory had once aligned herself with the


soul-clone Dracula-Mathias (unless that was actually a temporal


counterpart of the version of the Countess aligned with Dracula-Lykos, who


diverged as a result of Bathory going back and forth through time within the


Castlevania construct).









** See agent Donald F. Glut's file BLOOD SCARAB.









*** See the file Eva: Daughter of the Dragon One-Shot by Brandon Jerwa,


and published by Dynamite Comics.







**** See Jason Henderson's file "Extended and Dangerous," published in


Sword of Dracula/Vampirella: Extended and Dangerous #1 by Digital


Webbing and Harris Comics. In this report, it became clear how likely it is


that Vampirella is aware of the soul-clones, since she has


personally dealt with Dracula-Mordante repeatedly (and would do so again


a few years hence), but was also stalking the Curator, who was a known


former ally of another powerful soul-clone, Dracula-Magnus. 






Further, it's known that in the past she had a relationship with


Dracula-Klaus (a.k.a., Officer Dracula of the Monster Cops), who is also a


soul-clone, albeit a rogue who works for law enforcement in a Hellmouth-


afflicted suburb of Cleveland.

_________________________________________________________________


2008



This year the Vatican warrior priest Father Uffizi, accompanied by a fellow


warrior named Luke,  went against the orders of their superiors by


traveling to  the Carpathian Alps to hunt down and destroy Dracula-Judas


once and for all. In an area of the Alps located a good distance from the


main Castle Dracula, then under the control of Dracula-Prime,


Dracula-Judas and his vampire bride Elizabeth Blaine set up residence


in a minor castle constructed by members of the Dracula lineage near


Bucharest, Romania.  In the midst of a civil war breaking out in the streets


during this year, Uffizi and Luke battled the vampiric minions of Dracula-


Judas, with Uffizi saving and teaming up with a journalist stranded there


named Julia Hughes.








Upon leading an assault on the castle inhabited and


controlled by Dracula-Judas, the Vampire Lord was defeated in single


combat with Uffizi, while Elizabeth demands Luke beheads her (to which


he courteously complies).  However, because he failed to purge himself of


Dracula-Judas' mystically mutated enzymes during the day, Uffizi


seemingly succumbs to the taint and sits on Dracula's throne,


accompanied by a newly vampirized Julia.*








Philadelphia  The unnamed daughter of Vlad Tepes' descendant Helen


Rossi and her husband Paul (a.k.a., "the Historian"), are attending a


conference of medievalists, after which she visits a library that has a


large collection of material on Dracula.  Upon leaving, she receives


evidence that Dracula-Pan, the soul-clone whom she and her


parents battled in decades past, has been revived, and is now stalking


her anew.**








This year found Francis Phillip Castiglione, a former distinguished


Marine turned disgruntled police officer who later became a brutal vigilante


in emulation of his uncle, the infamous deadly vigilante Frank Castle,


a.k.a., the Punisher, ended up having a year-long stint as a man-made


monster who has been designated "Franken-Castle" (Phillip Castiglione


had his last name changed to "Castle" to further emulate his uncle,


whose sense of bloody private justice appealed to the semi-psychotic


combat veteran the more he encountered corruption in the police force


and violent crime on the streets).








This occurred when Phillip Castle was viciously slaughtered in battle with


Daken, the lycanthropic progeny of James "Logan" Howlett, when


Castle hunted him down.  Castle's remains were collected by creatures


working for Dr. Michael Morbius, the "Living Vampire," who used


advanced techniques he learned from studying the notes of various


members of the Frankenstein clan, along with alchemical means and the


attachment of one of the regenerative Bloodstone gems into his


sternum (previously used by the legendary monster hunter who called


himself Ulysses Bloodstone due to his possession of that enchanted


gem), to revive him as a man-made monster.








The reason Morbius did this was because he


 wanted to recruit Castle to assist the community of


monsters then being led and protected in a hidden subterranean alcove


by Morbius, and his fellow members of the "Legion of Monsters"--John


"Jack" Russell (a.k.a., the "Werewolf By Night," a reputed member of


the Talbot clan); N'Kantu "The Living Mummy"; the empathic but


near-mindless swamp creature known as the Man-Thing; and the sentient


member of the Gill Man's species known as the Manphibian--who were


then under very serious assault by the Japanese monster hunting


paramilitary crew led by the fanatical Robert Hellsgaard and Yamato


Takahashi, which was founded by the latter during the early 1970s.




 



In 1978, he rescued Hellsgaard from the Hell dimension he had been


trapped within for over 60 years during a battle with Dracula-Prime. 


Morbius wanted to revive and recruit Castle to add a member to their


community who had a great amount of military skill, which he believed


may enhance the chance of survival for the monster community.







Though reluctant to get involved at first, the now monstrous Castle was


eventually swayed into battling the monster hunting unit, apparently


crushing it with the assistance of the Legion of Monsters. He then went


on to hunt Daken to exact vengeance on him, a conflict that brought him


in contact with Daken's father, the Claw, when the latter entered the


fray. Soon after this, Castle used the regenerative power of the


Bloodstone to fully restore him to human form, after which it was


confiscated by the Legion of Monsters and Ulysses Bloodstone's


daughter and successor, Elsa Bloodstone; Castle then returned to his


previous activities as a criminal-hunting vigilante.***







* See Patrick Lussier's and Joel Soisson's file, DRACULA III: LEGACY.






** See Elizabeth Kostova's file The Historian.






*** Phillip Castle's entire foray as "Franken-Castle" was recorded in a


series of files compiled by Rick Remender, and were all collected in the


Punisher: Franken-Castle TPB, published by Marvels Comics.

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2010


In the mid-part of this year, Dracula-Prime finally makes an attempt to


unite all the separate and sometimes antagonistic strains (or "clans") of


vampires together with a single banner under his control, which he


referred to as the "Vampire Nation."  He did this with his two mystically


conceived vampiric sons, Janus and Xarus, at his side. Unfortunately,


unbeknownst to the Vampire Lord's loyal son Janus, his sibling Xarus


an unexpected coup d' etat, and managed to impale their father with a


wooden point, effectively ending his undead life. Xarus immediately took


over the fledgling Vampire Nation, and successfully organized the varying


bloodlines under his leadership.* 






Xarus then set his sights on San Francisco, where he presided over a


scheme to transform members of the city's sizable posthuman and


magickal-practicing community there--who collectively refer to themselves


as "misfits"--into vampires of various strains, thus adding their power to the


Vampire Nation.






Unfortunately for Xarus, one of the victims of the attacks from a vampire


contingent under his command in San Francisco is Jubie Lee II, the


17-year-old niece of James "Logan" Howlett's (a.k.a., the deadly but


honorable feral misfit known as the Claw) close friend and former lover


and sometimes sidekick of the same name. This thoroughly enraged


Logan, thus causing him to him to go after the Vampire Nation.


This would bring Xarus into conflict with the "Legion of


the Strange," a team of unusually powered posthumans, shamans,


demon/human hybrids, and artificial humanoids who were then located in


San Francisco.  The LOTS team wanted to protect their fellow misfits in


addition to seeking retribution for Jubie being vampirized. 









In the course of the ensuing conflict, the LOTS felt they had no choice but


to locate the body and head of Dracula-Prime, which Xarus had hidden in


separate locales, so they could revive the Vampire Lord in the hope this


would throw a sufficient monkey wrench in Xarus' plans that it would


disrupt the vampire assault on the Bay City. 






This ploy, initiated by Slim Summers with the assistance of the famous


vampire hunter Blade, was successful, and Dracula-Prime wasted little


time in confronting his treacherous upstart offspring and dispatching him


in a mano-a-mano battle, thus reclaiming his title as King of Vampires.







With Dracula-Prime once again Lord of the Vampires and prime minister


of the Vampire Nation, he considered turning on the Legion of the


Strange himself, as they were old enemies of his, but Summers managed


to convince him that he was honor bound by their revival of him to cease


all hostilities between vampires and posthumans for the time being. 


Grudgingly, Dracula-Prime gathered his forces and returned to Europe.** 









The remains of Vladimir Danesti (see entry for 1476) are recovered by


occultists hired by the power-mad capitalist Conrad Barrington, the CEO


of the floundering family business Barrington Industries. It was his


intention to acquire the services of Dracula himself for his company by


reviving him; Barrington believed Danesti to be the actual Dracula due to


the crest of the Order of the Dragon being placed on his tomb and listed


as such in the volume of the mystic tome known as the Ruthvenian that


Conrad's team had unearthed. Of course, Danesti believed himself to be


the true Vlad Dracula due to part of Dracula-Prime's essence being


involuntarily transferred into him as part of the spell that the


Scholomance sorcerers used to transform him into a powerful vampire. 









For this nefarious purpose, Conrad recruits his reluctant, basically


good-minded nephew Evan Barrington-Cabot (son of his sister) into this


top secret project of the company, and Conrad made the decision to


initiate mass layoffs and general cut-backs in his corporation to afford the


expenditure of acquiring the means to locate and revive Danesti (i.e., the


powerful vampire whom they all believed to be the "real" Vlad Dracula,


Danesti himself included). Using a large amount of their own blood, in


addition to a huge degree of pig's blood, the revival of Danesti-


cum-Prince Dracula was successful. It was discovered by their research


that anyone who uses their blood to revive this version of "Dracula" would


be immune to falling under the control of this vampire's potent mesmeric


powers.







Upon being revived, since Danesti believed himself to be Vlad Dracula,


possessed power on par with him, and seemingly absorbed many of the


memories he possessed prior to the year 1476, he can be considered a


rather uniquely created soul-clone of Dracula-Prime whom we have


designated Dracula-Danesti (as noted earlier in the section on 1476). 








Conrad Barrington helped educate Dracula-Danesti about the modern


world via extensive studies of the world via books and televised media over


a period of a few months, and the self-created Danesti Clone came to


despise the modern system of capitalism, which he believed to be less


noble than the system of feudalism that existed during his era. Over the


months that he spent as a captive of Barrington Industries, Dracula-


Danesti developed a working relationship and degree of mutual respect


and understanding with Evan Barrington-Cabot. Upon being ordered by


Conrad to transform him into a vampire (whom the Danesti Clone would


be unable to control despite siring) so that he could achieve a great


degree of power and immortality, Dracula-Danesti saw this as his chance


to effect his escape, as well as putting paid to Conrad, whom he loathed


for daring to hold him captive and attempt to make a pawn out of him.









Dracula-Danesti did indeed manage to make his escape during that time,


and he honored a previous deal with Evan not to kill him in exchange for


granting him a certain favor during his captivity. He did kill Conrad


Barrington, however, and soon began working to set up a power base for


himself in the 21st century, with the hope of taking over the world and


remake it in his "improved" image.









Conrad Barrington would soon be revived as a vampire himself, and


having become a true corporate bloodsucker, he and Dracula-Danesti


have begun a bitter war with each other to gain control of the world, with


Evan Barrington-Cabot and the rest of his family caught in the crossfire.








Dracula-Danesti offered the position of CEO of Barrington Industries to


Evan Barrington-Cabot if he took his side over that of his now vampiric


uncle Conrad and helped him wrest control of the company from him.


Additionally, both Dracula-Danesti and Conrad Barrington have come


under fire by a band of formidable and resourceful European vampire


hunters led by Marta Stefanescu, whose family has been hunting the


type of vampire created by Dracula-Danesti in their native Carpathians for


many generations, much as other vampire-hunting families have done


(e.g., the Van Helsings, the Belmonts, the Vincents, the


Valerious's).***







Dracula-Mordante (or a divergent counterpart thereof; see entry for 1997)
 

manages to take advantage of a 'breach' in the space-time fabric


containing the time-looping meta-narrative he was trapped within for over a


decade to draw his old enemy Vampirella into it. There she first vied with


him for the role of Vlad Tepes in the narrative, and finally displaced him in


the role, as he had hoped. Vampi's will enabled here to break free from


the narrative, and she teamed with Jack Halloran (still trapped within the


time-loop) and defeat Dracula-Mordante from within. The result was the


ending of the time-loop and all three being restored to active participation


in the standard linear timeline they were familiar with.****







Seattle  Dracula-Mordante soon revives in the city of where he becomes


involved in the battle between the powerful female vampire (and former


lieutenant of Dracula-Prime) Le Fanu, who threatens both, along with the


entire Earth, when she attempts sacrificing them to the primordial and


vastly powerful annelid-like elder god called Yag-Ath Vermellus.


Thankfully, the two triumphed, though Vampi defeated Dracula-Mordante


yet again during this incident too.*****








* See Victor Gischler's file The Death of Dracula, published by Marvels


Comics. Many details of the Marvels published version of the event were


altered for story purposes, including altering the names of the various clans


who were represented. The other clans who are believed to have attended,


other than Dracula's own strain, the Varnaeans, were the Turokians, the


Orlockians (a.k.a., Nosferatu), the Corvini (a.k.a., Myskatos), the Dacians,


and the Haemovores [see Chris Nigro's collaborative article with Zahir


Blue, Vampire Strains in the Wold Newton Universe, for details on all the


known disparate strains and sub-strains extant in the world].






** See Victor Gischler's files that have been collectively published in the


X-Men: Curse of the Mutants TPB by Marvels Comics. Also see other


interconnected files by various authors that have likewise been compiled


into TPBs by Marvels Comics, including X-Men, Curse of the Mutants:


Mutants vs. Vampires and Namor the First Mutant Vol. 1: Curse of the


Mutants.  Please note that the published versions of these files contained


wild inaccuracies and exaggerations for both disinformation and


entertainment purposes, including the interpretation of the "Legion of the


Strange" as a team of superhuman mutants called the X-Men. Since the


year 1963, Marvels Comics has published a series of popular comic books


transcribing highly fictionalized exploits of the LOTS as a team called the


X-Men. Their strongest market competitor, DC Comics, has published their


own well-received comic book series featuring heavily fictionalized exploits


of the LOTS, also from 1963 into the present, but calling them the Doom


Patrol (with their series debuting in a comic entitled My Greatest


Adventure, beginning with issue #80 of that title). It wasn't a coincidence


that both Marvels and DC began publishing fictionalized exploits of the


LOTS the very same year, but each company made a distinctive set of


changes and exaggerations to the individuals involved and the events


uncovered by research.








*** See Kurt Busiak's and Daryl Gregory's continuing series of reports


collectively filed under the title Dracula: The Company of Monsters,


published by Boom! Studios and collected in a series of TPBs. It should be


noted that certain details recorded in this timeline were left out by Busiak


and Gregory in their reports, possibly due to lack of information on their


part.







**** See Joe Harris' 6-part file Vampirella vs. Dracula (not to be confused


with a smaller file of the same name published by Harris Comics in


Vampirella/Dracula: The Centennial), published by Dynamite Comics.








***** See Eric Trautmann's file "Crown of the Worm," published by


Dynamite Comics in Vampirella Vol. 2 #'s 1-6. It's opined by Prof. Nero that


Yag-Ath Vermellus may be connected to the less powerful but still


dangerous and predatory serpentine deity--who also had vampires as


thralls--described by Bram Stoker in his report Lair of the White Worm. The


latter creature may possibly have been one of Yag-Ath Vermellus' spawn.


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2011



This year the original Frankenstein Monster (still referring to himself as


Adam) was recruited as a member of Dr. Stephen Strange's Order of the


Secret Defenders, and sent on a mission led by Strange's chief ally and


benefactor, the costumed multi-millionaire adventurer Kyle Richmond 


(who utilizes the code name 'Nighthawk,' which he patterned after the


Batman). This mission teamed the Monster and Richmond with the


She-Hulk (a woman who is the cousin of David Bruce Banner, the


biologist who transforms into the powerful green-skinned being known as


the Hulk; he passed his mutation and tremendous strength and


regenerative ability to Walters after administrating an emergency


transfusion of his gamma-irradiated blood to her back in 1978) and


Howard the Duck (a crafty extradimensional sentient and


anthropomorphic water fowl who is trapped in this reality) in an exploit


intended to stop the formidable swamp creature known as the Man-Thing


from going on a destructive rampage after the empathic creature was


driven to such behavior by a demonic fear-inducing entity known as the


Serpent. 









Richmond nicknamed this particular contingent of the Secret


Defenders the "Fearsome Four," and they also had an encounter with


the schizophrenic mutant mercenary Deadpool during this incident when


the Serpent  temporarily took possession of each of the four.*








Los Angeles   Adam Frankenstein Jr. resurfaced this year


in California when he acquires the services of monster hunter and private


investigator Cal McDonald to help him escape continued harassment and


pursuit from Gunther and Sophia Frank, the corrupt nephew and niece of


the Monster's creator, Basil Frankenstein (a great many of the modern


members of this notorious clan have altered their surname by shortening it


to variations like "Franken" or "Frank" to avoid the notoriety, especially in


Europe). They were pursuing him because they believe the Monster to be


the property of their family, and they hope to gain fame and fortune by


capturing him and revealing his existence to the world. McDonald, with


the help of his friend and frequent ally, Mo'Lock, a benevolent ghoul,


manage to apply sufficient muscle to the Frank siblings to discourage


them from further attempts to capture Adam Frankenstein Jr.. The


man-made monster and the monster hunter have since become friends


and periodic allies.**








The Ummoan infiltration of MONSTAAH is discovered and opposed, but


not before the head staff of the organization, working with agents of the


Initiative, are forced to destroy the group's main headquarters and


database to keep it out of the hands of the alien invaders. Chaos on a


grand scale erupts as several of the dangerous monstrous creatures held


in protective captivity in the organization's underground sanctum were


freed and put under the control of the Ummoan infiltrators, as well as


several deadly mystical artifacts and technological weaponry that was


likewise being held there for safekeeping ending up in the aliens'


possession. 







After a tremendous battle with many MONSTAAH agents and


soldiers of the Initiative, the Ummoan invaders' plot was thwarted, but


not without lasting damage as the Initiative insisted that MONSTAAH stay


disbanded and leave future monster hunting and data collection to them. 


Nevertheless, Prof. Chuck Loridans secretly kept hold of most of the


contents of MONSTAAH's invaluable database on a specialized flash drive


to keep it out of the hands of the Initiative, and took it with him after going


into hiding. 







Later in the summer of '11, Prof. Loridans was located at his hiding spot


by former agent Mike Nero, who was then estranged from the 'Z' adjunct


team, which continued to operate independently of the


now defunct MONSTAAH org.  Nero told Prof. Loridans how much


MONSTAAH had meant to him even if he was deemed too controversial to


work with the main team, and how important it was to the world. As such,


he offered to revive it, recruit a new staff, and run the org himself until


such time as Prof. Loridans chose to reclaim the helm.



 




Prof. Loridans gave Mike his approval and blessings to do so, officially


passed the torch onto him, and gave him another flash drive containing a


copy of the original MONSTAAH's vast database of info about all things


monstrous. Finding funding from an unexpected source, Mike Nero


revived MONSTAAH, and recruited a few members of the old team along


with a new generation of monster hunters to keep up the legacy


established by the League of Anti-Diabolists, which continued for a


decade under the direction of Prof. Loridans and Co.







 Westchester County, New York  13-year-old Baron Alphonse


Frankenstein II, an descendant of one of Baron Victor Frankenstein's


illegitimate offspring, has displayed a great propensity for the forbidden


sciences, as well as the corrupt nature of many of his relatives, from a very


early age. He is located and recruited by the brilliant but demented


12-year-old billionaire Kade Kilgore, and aids him and a few other


surpassingly brilliant youthful confederates in taking over the Inner Circle


of the Hellfire Club. Young Baron Frankenstein is initiated into the Inner


Circle as a reward, and a huge amount of funding is poured into hands


for his various scientific experiments.






Just a few months after this occurs early in the year, the Baron joins


Kilgore and the rest of the Inner Circle in attacking a faction of the


Legion of the Strange that is being led by the unique mutant lycanthrope


James Howlett, a.k.a., The Claw. For this mission, Baron Frankenstein


utilizes a variation of the alchemical process developed by Konrad Dippel


to spontaneously generate a large number of flesh golems, whose


physical appearance is based on the original Frankenstein Monster.


Serving the will of the Baron on Kilgore's behest, this troupe of flesh


golems are armed with flame-throwers and sent to attack the facility used


as a safehouse for the Legion of the Strange. After a fierce battle, this


'Frankenstein Army' is destroyed. The Baron is then summarily driven


away by Howlett's team along with the rest of Kilgore's Inner Circle.***  









* See Brandon Montclare's file Fear Itself: Fearsome Four and Chris  


Hastings' file Fear Itself: Deadpool, both published by Marvels Comics, and


both reprinted in the Fear Itself: Deadpool/Fearsome Four TPB.







It must be noted that much of the information of these events was greatly


exaggerated by the compilers in the published versions in comic book


format for both entertainment and disinformation purposes, including the


scale of the devastation wrought by the Serpent in New York City, the


power levels of some of the individuals involved, and other details.







** See Steve Niles' file "Call Me Monster," published in comic book format


in Free Comic Book Day: Criminal Macabre--Call Me Monster by Dark


Horse Comics.







*** See Part 2 & 3 of Jason Aaron's 3-part file "Regenesis," published in


Wolverine and the X-Men Vol. 1 #2-3 by Marvels Comics. The account of


the story provided in the published version of this file was extremely


exaggerated for both disinformation and entertainment purposes, including


having the Legion of the Strange referred to as the "X-Men" and the Claw


referred to as "Wolverine," as is the policy of Marvels' editorial staff.
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2012



This year marked the calender date when the ancient Mayan prophecy of


the end of the world was to take place. It manifested in different ways, but


one of the major manifestations that came close to devastating the world


was the extra-temporal appearance of the evil, vastly powerful Hyborean


Age sorcerer Kulan Gath, who had extra-temporally menaced the late


20th century on three different occasions.







Gath aligns himself with the corporeally manifested avatars of several


Mayan underworld deities, whom he uses as his foot soldiers in his


scheme to sacrifice the Earth to the dark, ancient Elder Gods he served in


exchange for his acceptance into their ranks as a full immortal deity.


Discovering Gath's temporal manifestation and apocalyptic machinations,


Dracula-Mordante felt it was essential to align himself with his enemies


Vampirella and Pantha, as well as Eva, Daughter of the Dragon, who is


evidently the progeny of Dracula-Mordante's rival rogue soul-clone


Dracula-Rominoff (Eva believes Dracula-Mordante to be her own sire in


a different human guise, and Mordante expressed incredulity over her


claims to be "his" daughter).







During the conflagration that ensued at various locations across the globe


against Gath and his lethal foot soldiers, Dracula-Mordante and his


reluctant allies were unite with several other champions culled from across


time and space, including the mighty she-warrior Red Sonja (Kulan


Gath's arch-nemesis from the Hyborean Age); the materially embodied


Greek goddess Athena; the fourth generation brilliant but eccentrically


twisted scientist Herbert West, the Re-Animator; and the monster-


fighting everyman, Ash Williams.  In the end, Kulan Gath was


vanquished yet again and the Earth was saved, but doubtlessly changed


forever as per the actual meaning of the Mayan calender's prophesied


"end times."*








A report surfaced in the latter part of this year that Dracula-Valberg finally


re-emerged as the ringleader of a typically eccentric scheme to


impersonate the Munsters. To this end, he took on the alias of "Grandpa


Sam Munster," and recruited several surprisingly human-looking


imposters to take on the roles of the rest of the Munster family, even


moving into their residence at 1313 Mockingbird Lane during a time


when the real family are absent for a prolonged period. The full reason


behind this scam has yet to be uncovered by us, including whether or not


Dracula-Valberg was acting under Dracula-Prime's command or


independently--but further investigation is now being conducted.**







MONSTAAH's resident vampire expert, Prof. Zahir Blue, had this to add


regarding the above:



"Dracula-Valberg would apparently have had two daughters.  I would


guess that their mother might have been a werewolf, since his grandson


evidently began to transform as he hit puberty. This would also explain the


decision to keep his other daughter from 'eating' the [girl] identified [in the


report] as 'Marilyn' in her infancy. If so, it seems Dracula-Valberg


became somewhat less ruthless over time. Perhaps during Dracula-


Prime's long involuntary torpor, this was the equivalent of Valberg going


'rogue.'  By this theory it would seem 'Lily' was more like her father, her


sister more like their mother, but in turn 'Eddie' took after his


grandmother."





                                                           Dracula-Valberg in his "Grandpa Munster" guise. Photo courtesy of Kord Enterprises

.

* See Ron Marz's 7-part file Prophecy, published in comic book format by


Dynamite Comics.







** See Bryan Singer, Bryan Fuller, and Norm Liebmann's file


MOCKINGBIRD LANE. It's clear that these investigators weren't aware of


Dracula-Valberg's involvement in this incident, and some of the events


were likely deliberately skewed in the telling so as to present them as "the"


Munsters.

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2013


Dracula-Mordante seeks to take the place of the "mad god" Chaos--the

 

Great Old One known as Azathoth, who once had the faux Vampire


Lord in servitude--as a prime agent of the titular universal force the


Earthly acolytes named the "mad god" after (Azathoth/Chaos


seems to have taken on a roughly humanoid but gigantic and monstrous


aspect for communication purposes, unless this was an aesthetic/artistic


conceit of the chronicler). The "nomination" for this extremely high position


is brought by the Parliament of Demons, whose forces Dracula-


Mordante is given control over as part of the bid.







This brings Dracula-Mordante into conflict with the forces of his former


supporter and romantic interest, the sorceress agent of the universal force


of Order known as the Conjuress.







This also brings the Vampire Lord and the Parliament of Demons' forces


he now has control over into conflict with his old foe Vampirella, who is


recruited by the Conjuress to oppose Dracula-Mordante on behalf of


Order.*







At one point during the conflict, Dracula-Mordante also faces off against


Pantha, who has by now become a regular recruit of the Conjuress on


the side of Order.** This conflict ends in a victory for the forces of Order,


and Dracula-Mordante is displaced from the Earth dimension into the


void-like Nether-Realm upon the defeat of the forces of Chaos.








 Los Angeles  Adam Frankenstein Jr. once again sought out monster


hunter and private investigator Cal McDonald (recently transformed into a


ghoul himself) for assistance when the Monster realizes he is going blind


as a result of his eyes becoming necrotic. The Monster is devastated at


the prospect of losing his sight, particularly since he is a devout scholar.


Agreeing to try and help his friend, McDonald goes against his own better


judgment by acceding to the advice of his ghoul friend and ally, Mo'Lock


to seek the services of the notorious but brilliant surgeon and mage Jason


Hemlock. The mage, insanely jealous of the power he realizes that


McDonald now has the potential for, pretends to have a desire to help


them, and successfully replaces the Monster's eyes to gain their trust


and get past their guard; after this is accomplished, Hemlock turns on


McDonald, trapping him in a mystic circle of hellfire where he plans to


destroy him and then steal his new-found power for himself. Frankenstein


Jr. then assists McDonald and Mo'Lock in defeating the deranged


Hemlock. This further cements their friendship.***

* & ** See Brandon Jerwa's file "Hell On Earth," published in comic book


format in Vampirella Vol. 3 #24-25 and Pantha Vol. 2 #5, both by Dynamite


Comics.








*** See Steve Niles' file "The Eyes of Frankenstein," initially published in


comic book format in Criminal Macabre: The Eyes of Frankenstein #1-4 by


Dark Horse Comics.







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