Triumvirate of Terror timeline 1900-1920

1900

Llanwelly Sir John Talbot’s wife dies in childbirth, with the child being

stillborn.

That same year Sir John’s father, Lawrence Milo Talbot, in werewolf

form, slays the wife and child of Dr. Anton Zarnak. Zarnak tracks Talbot

down and slays him.

At this point we do not know if Talbot was permanently killed or is

wandering around even today.
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1901

Another member of the Frankenstein clan, this one known as Dr. Matius

Artur Frankenstein, creates his own man-made monster by working with

one of the journals left behind by his one of his various relatives who

likewise sought out the secrets of life and death in the past. However, after

the Creature is provided with a brain, Dr. Frankenstein is killed by an

agent of the immortal villain Count Cagliostro, who takes control of the

Monster and plans to use him in a procreation project involving the late

scientist's daughter, Dr. Vera Frankenstein, who is a friend of Dr. John

Seward. This particular Monster appears to have been destroyed for

good following the failure of Cagliostro's plan.*

Dracula-Prime was possibly resurrected for a brief time early this year, as

there is a report of the Count and three of his vampiric brides traveling

first class from Europe to New York City on a gigantic private ocean liner

called the Titan; it's also possible this was the soul-clone Dracula-

Rominoff, but we will not know for certain until more evidence is available.

While en route, the Vampire Lord--who was traveling under the guise of

"Count Lugard" (claiming his three adolescent vampire brides were his

daughters)--passed the time socializing with several famous writers and

leaders of industry who were also on board, as well as the Tenebre

Brothers (one of whom, Ange, was a fellow vampire, though possibly not

of the same strain).**

During the several day voyage, Dracula, his three brides, and the

incognito Ange Tenebre casually preyed upon many of the thousand

immigrants who were stuck amongst the horrid conditions in the steerage

area of the vessel.***

* See Jesus Franco's file THE EROTIC RITES OF FRANKENSTEIN

(a.k.a.,LA MALDICION DE FRANKENSTEIN).

** The illicit exploits of the sibling team of notorious thieves and masters of

disguise, Jean and his vampiric younger brother Ange Tenebre, were

chronicled in a series of reports compiled by Paul Feval.

*** See Brian M. Stableford's file "The Titan Unwrecked; Or, Futility

Revisited," compiled in Tales of the Shadowmen: The Modern Babylon,

published by Black Coat Press.
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1902

Llanwelly Birth of John and Lawrence Stewart Talbot, twins, to Sir

John Talbot and Cleva Creighton Tull (Sir John’s mistress, an actress

from California) in Llanwelly, Wales.

Painting of John Talbot Jr. found hanging in Talbot castle. As there are no portraits of Lawrence Stewart to be found, one must

conclude that Sir John favored one twin over the other.

Lawrence "Larry" Stewart Talbot

Living in the small town of Dwarves Bay, England, which bordered a large

forest full of supernatural manifestations--and was the home of several

camps of gypsies (likely many of the Kalderash tribe)--Arthur Lemming

accidentally scraped his leg on a branch of wolfsbane while strolling

through the woods one day, thus unwittingly triggering his family's

hereditary potential to develop lycanthropy.

Becoming a raging, bloodthirsty werewolf on the three nights of the full

moon each month, Lemming viciously stalked and murdered several

hapless fellow residents of Dwarves Bay who were unfortunate enough to

be out on those particular nights, thereby creating a panic in the town.

Before he realized that he was actually the bestial nocturnal murderer that

had his home town living in mortal terror, Lemming ended up slaying his

own beloved young daughter Miriam.

After being driven out of the town and into the surrounding forests, the

bestial Lemming wreaked havoc upon various gypsy tribes he came

across, and after discovering his curse and his culpability in his daughter's

savage murder, he went nearly insane with grief and guilt, wandering

aimlessly through the forests surrounding Dwarves Bay, and earning the

ire of the gypsy inhabitants of those woods. During this time, he was

reunited with his estranged wife Angela, only to end up slaying her too.

Eventually, he encountered a gypsy mystic who pretended to want to help

him end his curse, but out of revenge for slaughtering several of his tribe

members, the gypsy instead inflicted a second horrific curse upon

Lemming: the entrapment of his consciousness in the body of a cursed

mummy of Egyptian origin, which he discovered he could animate and

move about in. Trapped in the fetid body, and still suffering the curse of

his lycanthropy on the nights of the full moon (thus suggesting a

meta-genetic basis for the curse), Lemming went on a quest to the New

England area of America in an attempt to locate an Egyptian amulet that

would enable him to restore his consciousness to his human body.

Unfortunately, his real human body was taken over by an unscrupulous

dwarf named Throgmore via magickal techniques he picked up from a

tome owned by his master, who was a wizard that was killed by

Lemming.

Lemming eventually managed to catch up to Throgmore, cause the vile

dwarf's soul to vacate his real body, and restore his own consciousness to

it. However, his celebration was short-lived, as the atrocities committed by

Throgmore while inhabiting his body for a few weeks caused Lemming to

become the target of a vengeful father (believed to be of the Irons family,

who later produced armored hero John Henry Irons, as per the

conjecture of my esteemed colleague Prof. Henry Covert), and

he was stabbed to death while still in human form.

What happened to Lemming after that is unknown, as there has yet to be

reports of him returning from death, something that other lycanthropes--

including his fellow members of the Daninsky clan--have accomplished

on several occasions.

For the full story on Arthur Lemming, see the files of agents Al Milgrom and

Steve Skeates entitled "Curse of the Werewolf," collected under the

auspices of agent James Warren in his magazine Eerie, which were

indexed and analyzed in-depth by Prof. Nero here.

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1903

London Death of Baron Henry Frankenstein. The cause of his death

is unknown, though his granddaughter, Elsa Frankenstein, once stated

that it was because of his tampering with forces beyond his control, but

there is some speculation that he was slain by the renegade Dracula soul-

clone known as Dracula-Vladisla after being recruited by him to

construct another Monster.* Henry’s widow Elizabeth remains in

London. This year also marks the marriage of Baron Wolf Frankenstein

to Elsa Muller.

Based upon the research of vampire expert Zahir Blue, it may be surmised

that Dracula-Mathias transformed a vampire of the Corvini strain into a

soul-clone of a soul-clone, due to the ability of Dracula-Vladisla to use

female vampires created by himself to reproduce in a sexual fashion, albeit

in a manner utterly unlike that of common mammalian reproduction. This

apparently required the assistance of Dr. Henry Frankenstein's research in

order to perfect, which is why he created a second man-made monster on

the Vladisla Clone's behalf. More research needs to be conducted on this

unique soul-clone for a full assessment of his physiological nature, and how

his transformation into a soul-clone may have warped the natural ability of

his Corvini bloodline to reproduce sexually.

Dracula-Mordante continued to experiment with creating soul-clones of

his own, each towards the purpose of exploring a variety of ways for him to

manifest his essence in the midst of the unwary. In one case, he

transferred his essence into the body of physician Dr. Wendall Marlowe,

a member of a distant branch of the Daninsky lineage the notorious clan

of werewolves, but with whom lycanthropy had not noticeably manifested.

Dracula-Mordante was intrigued at infiltrating the Daninsky genealogy in

such a fashion--thereby creating the soul-clone-of-a-soul-clone hereby

designated Dracula-Marlowe.**

Dracula-Mordante also arrives in London this year, and challenges

Sherlock Holmes and his ally Dr. John Watson to a deadly game of wits

after the Vampire Lord was apparently slighted by a statement Holmes

once made denying the reality of vampires. Dracula-Mordante--the one

properly belonging to this time period--lost the battle after Holmes tricked

him into entering the Crystal Pavillion, where he is reduced to ash by

sunlight reflected through its large array of reflective windows.***

* See Stephen Sommers' file VAN HELSING.

** The direct involvement of Dracula-Mordante in the creation of the

Marlowe Clone is the result of research conducted by Prof. Zahir Blue, later

extrapolated upon a bit by Prof. Nero.

*** See agents Bill DuBay's and Kevin Duane's file "The Singular Case of

the Anemic Heir," published in The Rook #10 by Warren Comics, reprinted

in Sherlock Holmes--A Study in Scarlet, published by Thorby Enterprises,

Inc.

The above report, taken from the written records of Dr. John Watson,

appears to once again have fudged some of the facts by implying that this

was the first encounter between Holmes and Dracula, which isn't the case,

though this is the first time he encountered this particular soul-clone, so he

likely didn't recognize him at first. However, this published version of

Watson's report also incorrectly makes it appear that Holmes was unaware

of the existence of actual vampires, which certainly wasn't true, as he

encountered Dracula-Prime on two occasions prior to this, and possibly

another of his soul-clones, if a file compiled by Fred Saberhagen turns out

to be true.

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1904

China Lawrence Van Helsing and his son Leyland team up with eight

mighty martial artists--Hsi Ching, his six brothers and sister, Mei Kwei--to

fight Dracula-Kah and his minions.*

Vampire expert and researcher Zahir Blue has uncovered strong evidence

that the Seven Golden Vampires were of the Orlockian strain of vampirism,

which makes it clear that Dracula-Prime was hoping to use the Kah Clone

in one of his endeavors to gain control over segments of a vampiric strain

other than his own bloodline, i.e., the Varnaean strain (which is likely

related to the Dacian strain that Zahir has identified). See Zahir's research

blog entry/article, Upon the Classification of Vampires.

Soon after these events, Leyland Van Helsing marries Mei Kwei.

* See file entitled THE LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES (a.k.a.,

THE 7 BROTHERS VS. DRACULA).

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1905

Europe Dracula-Denrom revives time and time again to terrorize and

feed, building up more energy for Dracula-Prime.

* See agent Sangster's report DRACULA, PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Below

are the dates, matching the various reports, by Sangster, chronicling the

exploits of the Denrom soul-clone.
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1906

The events of Anthony Hinds' report (written using pen name John Elder)

DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE.

This year also marks the birth of Elsa Frankenstein to Ludwig

Frankenstein and a women whose identity is unknown, leading us to

believe that she might have died in childbirth. Elsa was named after her

Uncle Wolf's bride. See Prof. Mark Brown’s article The House of

Frankenstein for more light on why Ludwig chose this name.

Dracula-Mordante is transported from the year 1971 to the debauchery-

filled Barbary Coast section of San Francisco of the very early morning

hours of April 18 of this year by the magick of the Conjuress following his

failure to achieve absolution on a mission set up by her.

In the course of the evening's events, the Conjuress is accidentally killed

when she attempts to stop the Vampire Lord from taking the blood of a

woman, and the cosmic backlash of the death of such a being (whom

Prof. Michael Nero suspects to be a mortal woman recruited and given

formidable powers by the cosmic beings known as the Lords of Order,

and not an actual goddess, as she claimed) triggers the massive

earthquake that devastated the city on this day in the morning hours.

Dracula-Mordante, along with a young prostitute named Josphine and

an old blind witch women named Elisabeth--both of whom he vamped

and made into his thralls--manage to escape aboard a ship traveling to

Europe.

While en route, Dracula-Mordante and his two vampiric lady thralls

secretly feed on the crew of the ship for sustenance, only to be forced to

flee the ship soon before it docked on European shores after the vessel

was accidentally set ablaze during a battle the Vampire Lord had with a

murderous zombie-like creature identified in the report only as the "Dead-

Thing."

After making his way to the Castle Dracula of this time period in

Transylvania to take up residency there (since he knew Dracula-Prime

was indisposed at this time, and no active soul-clone was now inhabiting

it), Dracula-Mordante found himself under assault by the dhampiric man

whom he had "sired" with Gwethalyn Christen roughly half a century

earlier.*

* See the files "...And An Immortal Died," "Enter the Dead-Thing," and

"The Son of Dracula" compiled by agent Bill DuBay, and published by

Warren Comics in Eerie issue #'s 47-49, respectively.

It should be noted that it was never revealed in the last file how Dracula-

Mordante escaped from the clutches of his unnamed dhampir son, though it

later became clear he somehow did, and apparently remained in this time

period for good, surfacing again two years later--see entry for 1908 below.

Prof. Zahir Blue has since conducted some research suggesting Dracula-

Mordante was saved from his dhampir son by Countess Marya Zeleska, the

vampiric daughter of Dracula-Lejos, who was then in control of the

particular castle that the time-tossed Mordante Clone had traveled to. What

became of the vampirized Josephine and Elisabeth have yet to be

determined.

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1907

Soon after recovering from his near-fatal encounter with his vengeful

dhampiric son, the extratemporally displaced Dracula-Mordante, now

fully consumed by the evil imbued within him by Dracula-Prime, began

formulating plans to wreak havoc on various members of the families

whom he considered to be his mortal enemies (e.g., the Van Helsings,

the Harkers, the Sewards). An opportunity to inflict such damage in

multiple locations simultaneously fortuitously fell into his lap when Castle

Dracula was visited this year during Dracula-Mordante's time of

residency by an entourage of four men who arrived there to explore any

possible "reality" behind the legends reported ten years prior in author

Bram Stoker's book for possible production on the stage, or on celluloid in

the burgeoning new motion picture industry.

This group consisted of Balderston, a playwright (whose

cousin would indeed later pen a popular stage play of the Lord of the

Undead); Saville, a director of the fledgling film industry; Matheson, an

aspiring screenwriter with an eye for folklore; and Vladimir Dragoti, a

fun-loving, womanizing dancer, actor, and amateur producer.

However, the group got much more than they bargained for when they

encountered Dracula-Mordante at the castle, who quickly placed all four

men under his thrall. Using some magicks he had learned while a member

of the Cult of Chaos (in the "future" of the 1950s-1960s decades), aided

by a fragment of the Star Stone he found in the castle vaults, Dracula-

Mordante transformed all four men into secondary soul-clones after

vampirizing them, thus creating the soul-clones we have designated

Dracula-Balderston, Dracula-Matheson, Dracula-Saville, and Dracula-

Dragoti.

Dracula-Mordante planned to send each of them after various members

of the families he considered his nemeses, so that, in effect, "Dracula"

would be responsible for the destruction of every single one of them. Each

of these four soul-clones proved to have traits in common with their

creator, Dracula-Mordante, which included his proclivity towards

romancing women in addition to victimizing them, along with his suave

attractiveness and charm to the opposite sex.

One of the four, Dracula-Dragoti, proved to be a failure, as the hedonistic,

free-spirited nature of the man this soul-clone once was "leaked" too much

into the "Dracula" persona super-imposed over his psyche, so Dracula-

Mordante soon left him to his own devices. The other three, however,

would prove to be menacing soul-clones who would either achieve their

objectives, or come close to doing so.*

This year Countess Elizabeth Bathory (a.k.a., Elizabeth Bartley, a.k.a.,

Erzebet Bathori), a relative of Vlad Tepes Dracula from the early 1600s

who had become a unique and particularly powerful vampire via a dark

magickal ritual where she bathed in the blood of several young maidens

whom she personally tortured and killed, was resurrected by a gothic

witch named Drolta Tzeuentes. Hoping to revive her "uncle" Dracula and

ally herself with him, she instead opted to do so with his rogue soul-clone

Dracula-Mathias, which she believed to be more prudent for her goals at

the time.

Bathory had the psychic ability to enable her consciousness to "jump"

from her physical body should it be destroyed or incapacitated, and into

the body of another female, thus enabling her to continuously change her

appearance and identity (all of her power would be transferred into her

new body, in addition to possessing at least some of the special attributes

her new body may have; she could "jump" into a female human, vampire,

or even some other type of female entity, such as a werewolf or zombie).

During her quest to recruit various monstrous minions to aid her in locating

and reviving Dracula-Mathias, she encountered a particularly grotesque

gorgon (referred to in the reports as a "medusa," which is not entirely

accurate, as Medusa was merely the most famous of all gorgons). Not

caring to join Bathory in a subordinate role, this gorgon transformed the

Countess to stone with her enchanted gaze. However, Bathory overcame

this debacle by "jumping" from her petrified form into the body of the

gorgon, taking possession of it and permanently driving the creature's

original psyche out of it. She used her power to morph her new gorgon

form into that of a beautiful young human female, albeit one with green

hair; she was still able to shape-shift into the powerful gorgon form at will.

It was in this body that she found and revived Dracula-Mathias, and the

two quickly regained control of the time-and-dimension displacing

construct known as Castlevania.

Upon recruiting an even larger array of monstrous minions from across

time and the dimensions, Dracula-Mathias and Bathory wreaked terror

across Europe, only to find themselves opposed by the young vampire

slayers John Morris and Eric Lecarde. After a monumental battle, the

two warriors fought their way through the Count and Countess' various

minions and dimensionally accessible areas of conflict while launching an

invasion on Castlevania, finally confronting and destroying Bathory and

Dracula-Mathias themselves.**

During this battle, Dracula-Mathias displayed a great great degree of

power, including the ability to to easily levitate at will while in humanoid

form, the projection of powerful bolts of mystical energy, and the power to

shape-shift into a huge man-bat form at least ten feet in height, with the

power to manifest a multi-fanged maw in his genital region and project bolts

of mystical ball lightening from it (alas, the MONSTAAH team is not

making this up!).

* I owe many thanks to the interpretive skills of my colleague Prof. Ivan

Ronald Schablotski for the info regarding the four experimental soul-clones

created by Dracula-Mordante as part of his 'Dracula Revenge Squad.'

** See Konami's report CASTLEVANIA: BLOODLINES. It should be noted

that the dates of Countess Bathory's revival and John Morris' birth in that

report were incorrect--the former was 1907, not 1917; and the latter was

1885, not 1895. This info is based on research arrived at independently by

Prof. Zahir Blue and Prof. Michael Nero. Bathory is believed to have soon

been revived in another body by as yet unknown means following this

exploit, where she no longer had green hair or the power of the gorgon she

possessed during this report. She is rumored to have been responsible for

the events leading to World War I by being behind the assassination of the

Crown Prince of Austria, but that has not been substantiated. She would

later turn up during the 1960s, where she was seen in the company of

another soul-clone, Dracula-Lykos, as described in the report of

Donald F. Glut entitled BLOOD SCARAB.
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1908

The events of Anthony Hinds' report (using the pen name of John Elder)

TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA.

This year the extra-temporally stranded Dracula-Mordante from the year

1971 turned up in Choctaw County, Mississippi, where he joined the

mysterious King Carnival's circus as one of his bizarre side show features

in return for protection. There, he also gained a new paramour, a

terminally ill woman named Cassandra Kiley, whom he saved from this

fate by vamping her.**

This protection ultimately failed him, however, as he appears to have been

taken down in battle by a group of monster hunters--possibly the League

of Anti-Diabolists or a splinter group thereof--and his remains buried,

where they would keep until he was recovered, revived, and conscripted

into leadership of the Cult of Chaos on behalf of the "mad god" Chaos in

the 1950s.

Due to the failure of the Dragoti soul-clone, Dracula-Mordante found a

much better candidate for an effective replacement soul-clone: an elderly

would-be student of the occult named Raymond, who possessed both a

propensity for evil and a loathing of the Holmwood family due to Lord

Holmwood, the cousin of Lord Godalming--who had helped defeat

Dracula-Prime many years earlier--being a hated rival of his in the

past. Using his occult knowledge, this man gains infamy through

overseeing the corporeal manifestation of a destructive demon by using a

girl as his vessel, the ordeal shattering her mind, and resulting in

her inhuman progeny wreaking havoc upon all who crossed her path for

many years to come.**

As it happened, an occult secret society known as the Brotherhood--

associates of Raymond--were contacted by George Holmwood, the

son of the mage's hated rival Lord Holmwood, a few days following his

proposal to a young woman he loved named Erica. George discovered

that he had contracted syphilis while in utero, the illness having

been passed on to his mother from his father, who died a short time earlier

when his mind and body was destroyed by the deadly bacteria. His

mother committed suicide after learning she was infected to avoid the

inevitable.

Realizing what his own fate would be, and also realizing he was

unable to have sexual relations with his bride-to-be without the risk of

spreading the disease to her, he succumbs to desperation and contacts

the Brotherhood due to their reputation in the underground occult world.

He offers to pay Singleton,*** the leader of the secret society specializing

in rejuvenation methods, a vast sum for eradicating the infection from his

system.

Seeing this as a golden opportunity to exact vengeance on the

Holmwood family, Raymond enthusiastically accepts the offer to

become one of Dracula's soul-clones, desiring the prospect of the

reversal of his age and eternal youth (due in part to the assistance of the

Brotherhood's rejuvenation methods in concert with Dracula-Prime's

Star Stone ring), not to mention greatly increased power.

However, he didn't seem to have been informed that his identity would be

subsumed by the "transfusion" of the personality traits and memories of

Dracula-Prime. He thus becomes the soul-clone designated

Dracula-Pan, and he would take the place of the failed Dragoti Clone in

being the instrument of revenge on the Holmwood family, with George

being the initial target.***

* Part of Dracula-Mordante's time with King Carnival Circus was chronicled

by Gerry Boudreau in the files "The Circus of King Carnival," "The

Winged Shaft of Fate," and "Rainy Night in Georgia," published by Warren

Comics in Vampirella issue #'s 39-41, respectively, with the first two files

reprinted in Comix International #2.

** See Arthur Machan's file The Great God Pan.

*** The conversion of Raymond into the soul-cone Dracula-Pan has been

uncovered courtesy of research conducted by agent Zahir Blue, to whom I

am indebted for this info.

Researcher Prof. Steven Pertwillaby added the following info as a likely

explanation for the highly remorseful attitude that Raymond expressed in

Machlan's file, which contrasts with his later behavior uncovered by agent

Blue:

"Perhaps Raymond could have found the Book earlier in life, and was led

by it to the Carpathian Scholomance Academy, where he stayed a few

years and studied, likely never actually encountering Dracula-Prime at the

time, but learning much about him and the Order (which also lends itself

to his founding or joining the occult group that ensnares Holmwood). After

Helen's suicide he knew there were darker things than he'd ever thought

possible, but despite his revulsion, he couldn't resist the urge to learn

more, so he returned to Transylvania. He was probably well on his way to

becoming a true necromancer (though not necessarily evil, still largely

indifferent regarding humanity, thanks to his glimpse of cosmic horror) by

the time Dracula-Prime chose him as a potential successor, as all

soul-clones must be worthy of succeeding the real Vlad should he ever die

the true death."

Note: The "Book" in question is a blank journal with a dragon engraving on

the cover, the dragon being the symbol of the Tepes family. This is

intended as both a riddle and a trap for Dracula-Pan to recruit scholars.
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1909

The events of Anthony Hinds' report (under the pen name of John Elder)

SCARS OF DRACULA.

That same year, Lorimar Van Helsing, son of Leyland Van Helsing and

Mei Kwei, is born.

Dracula-Balderston arrives in Whitby to exact revenge on Dr. Jack

Seward, the cousin of Dr. John Seward--who had taken over the

operation of the asylum and relocated it to his mansion, along with his

daughter Lita and Miley Van Helsing, the sickly daughter of Boris Van

Helsing, who was Lita's closest friend and living with them at the

time. After victimizing and vamping Miley, her father Boris was

summoned from his home in Maine, USA, to exact retribution, and to help

protect the Seward family from further reprisals.

It was likely clear to Boris Van Helsing who the vampiric menace they

were facing truly was, as he was by this time aware that multiple versions

of the Vampire Lord existed via the soul-clones. Boris was, sadly, forced

to stake his own vampiric daughter after his arrival in England.

Just as badly, Lita Seward fell to the charms, and later the control, of the

Prince of Darkness, and willingly became his "bride." This led to a battle

between Dracula-Balderston and his enemies Dr. Seward, Boris Van

Helsing, and Lita's betrayed fiancee, Gifford Hayden (who was a distant

relative of the Harkers).

Although Dracula-Balderston was successfully destroyed via exposure to

sunlight during the melee on a ship where the Count intended to escape

back to Transylvania with his new bride, Lita being spared permanent

transformation into one of the Undead as a result, Boris Van Helsing was

tragically killed during the battle.*

Dracula-Matheson, another soul-clone under the direction of Dracula-

Mordante, arrives elsewhere in England to bedevil nobleman Langley

Holmwood, the half-brother of Dracula-Prime's nemesis Arthur

Holmwood, targeting his fiancee Lorna West to make her his bride when

this soul-clone appears to believe Lorna is the reincarnation of a "long-lost

love" (mostly likely one lost to a fatal illness by the man this soul-clone

used to be, with his memories of the tragic event conflated with memories

of both Dracula-Prime and Dracula-Mordante). Holmwood calls upon a

member of the Van Helsing family who is believed to be Arnold Van

Helsing I for assistance, and the Matheson soul-clone was dispatched by

them following a fierce battle to save Lorna West.**

Dracula-Saville launches an assault on a member of the Harker family in

yet another region of England, specifically therapist Gilbert Harker, and

his two daughters, Clara and Dina. Realizing why his family was

targeted, Gilbert quickly contacted Dr. Fritz Van Helsing, a second

cousin of Abraham and Boris that likewise possessed the Van Helsing

lineage's knack and drive for hunting the Undead, which may have been

inherited from the bloodline's ancient suspected immortal ancestor later

known as Gabriel Van Helsing (as conjectured by Prof. Henry Covert).

Harker and Van Helsing were joined by Dietrich Morris, an American

diplomat and younger brother of Quincy Morris, who was determined to

exact retribution on the Vampire Lord for killing the older brother he

barely knew over two decades earlier, but whose reputation he greatly

admired; further, upon contacting and becoming friendly with Gilbert

Harker's family, Dietrich fell in love with his daughter, Clara. Working

together, the three managed to successfully destroy Dracula-Saville and

the three vampiric brides who aided him in his attempt to add both of

Gilbert Harker's daughters to his unholy harem.***

Dracula-Pan was dispatched to yet another section of England to seek

vengeance upon George Holmwood, a member of another branch of

Arthur Holmwood's family, who resided with his frustrated wife Erica at

Holmwood Castle. Insinuating himself into the lives of these people,

Dracula-Pan preyed upon both Erica and her closest friend, Nina

Murray, a distant cousin of Mina Murray. The Count was opposed in

these atrocities by George Holmwood, Dr. Thomas Seward--a nephew

of Dr. John Seward I, the avowed adversary of Dracula-Prime--and Dr.

David Van Helsing, an initially skeptical brother of Fritz Van Helsing,

whom Holmwood and Seward rescued from the clutches of the

Brotherhood, who lured him into their hands.

Sadly, they were forced to stake Erica Holmwood, who was vamped by

Dracula-Pan (though she may have later been somehow revived****). This

particular soul-clone displayed impressive mesmeric abilities, and used

them to facilitate the death of Singleton, the then-leader of the

Brotherhood.***** George Holmwood died in the final confrontation with

Dracula-Pan, but Thomas Seward managed to destroy him via a stake to

the heart (David Van Helsing served mostly as a consultant in this exploit,

not in a warrior capacity).******

Soon after this, Thomas Seward married Nina Murray. It has been

conjectured by agent Zahir Blue that the Pan soul-clone may have

eventually been revived, and participated in other, later recorded reports of

Dracula activity, and more research into this possibility is now being

conducted by Prof. Blue.

Transylvania This year, while residing in the insane asylum-cum-castle he

once ran as a human psychiatrist, Dracula-Marlowe, using the guise of

his original human identity of Dr. Wendell Marlowe, welcomes five guests

who stumble to his home to seek refuge from an accident with the horse-

driven carriage transporting them, these four refugees being comprised of

four women and a man. Suffering from the bipolar consciousness of

Dracula-Mordante superimposed over his own, Marlowe becomes

convinced that he must revive what his addled mind perceived as being

"Dracula's Daughter" in order to restore himself to full power.

The insensate body he procured was actually that of the female vampire

Sasha Karnstein, and he needed a human blood sacrifice to restore her.

However, another effect of Dracula-Mordante's personality implants

dominating his psyche was for Marlowe to acquire Mordante's extreme

passion and desire for love and sexual companionship. As a result, he

feel deeply in love with one of the young women who had taken refuge at

his estate, Senta, even going so far as to protect her from a rogue male

vampire he created that attempted to prey upon her fellow refugees when

Marlowe himself wasn't preying upon and vampirizing them.

As Marlowe had to use Senta in his ritual to revive his "daughter" Sasha

Karnstein, she refused his offer for eternal life at his side as his vampiric

lover, and his love for her actually caused him to let her go and abandon

his plan to revive Sasha, dumping the coffin containing her mummified

body into a nearby river. After destroying the other vampires he had

created, the Marlowe soul-clone then took his own undead life, as his

schizo psyche was driven further over the edge over Senta's refusal to join

him as his undead lover, even as much of both Wendell Marlowe's and

Count Mordante's humanity reached a quick moment of ascendency over

the evil of Dracula-Prime's persona.*******

* This tale was partially told in John Badham's and W.D. Richter's file

DRACULA (not to be confused by four other files of the same name). Not

all the details of this incident were available to the composers of the file,

which is why it was interpreted as an altered re-telling of the events initially

described by Bram Stoker, as was the case with the 1931 file partially

describing Dracula-Lejos' earlier conflict with members of the five families

who are considered major enemies of Dracula-Prime. The alterations,

which included name changes in many of the central characters and

distortions of certain events and other details (such as Boris Van Helsing

referred to by the forename of his brother, Abraham, and the date of these

events mistakenly given as 1913, rather than 1909), appeared in the two

movie versions of this event produced by Universal, one in 1931 starring

actor Bela Lugosi as Dracula, and the other in 1979, starring Frank

Langella as the Count; the other two files with this name were interpreted

into telefilms, one being a 1968 BBC production where the Vampire Lord

was played by actor Denholm Elliot, and the other a 1973 production where

the Count was played by actor Jack Palance.

In actuality, these five files each describe entirely different events, one

involving Dracula-Prime, the others involving the soul-clones Dracula-

Lejos, Dracula-Balderston, Dracula-Matheson,

Dracula-Saville, and Dracula-Pan.

** See Dan Curtis' and Richard Matheson's file DRACULA (a.k.a., BRAM

STOKER'S DRACULA). Many of the names, events, and other details of

the incident involving this soul-clone were changed when the file was

created due to lack of info available to the authors, so the TV version

starring actor Jack Palance as Dracula was depicted as a re-telling of the

famous 1887 incident involving Dracula-Prime as chronicled by Bram

Stoker. Many of the names of the people involved were changed to reflect

that interpretation, and the date of the incident was incorrectly given as

1897, the year Stoker's file was published. For some reason, the Matheson

clone appears to have lacked the shape-shifting powers and limited ability

to control the weather that are possessed by Dracula-Prime, as well as

Dracula-Mordante, a deficiency shared by some but not all of the

soul-clones.

*** Hints of this incident could be seen in both Patrick Dromgoole's and

Charles Graham's file DRACULA, and Phillip Saville's and Gerald Savory's

file COUNT DRACULA. Both of these files were based on incomplete

information that fell into the hands of BBC producers who twice turned

them into telefilms that were interpreted as re-tellings of the famous tale

from Bram Stoker's file Dracula, the first in 1968 with Dracula played by

Denholm Elliot, the second in 1977 with the Count played by Louis

Jourdan. As before when this occurred, many of the events, exact

locations, names of the people involved, and certain details (such as dates)

were altered to resemble a re-telling of the tale chronicled by Stoker.

**** Some research conducted by Prof. Zahir Blue indicates that Erica

Holmwood may have been revived and aligned with a clan of the Corvini

strain of vampires, as suggested by Len Wisman's and Danny McBride's

file UNDERWORLD.

***** Prof. Blue has conjectured that Singleton was quite likely to be Adrian

Singleton, formerly a friend of the infamous, immortal uber-hedonistic

dilettante Dorian Gray, whose story was told in Oscar Wilde's file The

Picture of Dorian Gray.

****** See Bill Eagles' and Stewart Harcourt's file DRACULA (not to be

confused with several other files/reports by that name). Dracula-Pan was

yet another of the 'Dracula Revenge Squad' soul-clones created by

Dracula-Prime for the sole purpose of exacting vengeance upon different

branches of the five families--the Van Helsings, the Harkers, the Sewards,

the Morrises, and the Holmwoods--who brought about his major defeat in

London circa 1887. Like most of the others in this group, this exploit ended

up being adapted into a telefilm posing as an "adaptation" of Bram Stoker's

original report Dracula, with the Count played by actor Marc Warren. That

this report was actually based upon a distinct incident featuring another of

a particular set of soul-clones was uncovered via research conducted by

Prof. Zahir Blue.

As Prof. Blue himself noted about this incident: "When dramatized the

filmmakers (as per usual) included elements from the novelization by Bram

Stoker in telling the tale of this specific soul-clone--such as changing

people's first names, the name of the ship that bore the vampire to

England, the location of Holmwood Castle, etc."

******* See Paul Naschy's and Javier Aguillo's file DRACULA'S GREAT

LOVE (a.k.a., COUNT DRACULA'S GREAT LOVE, a.k.a., CEMETERY

GIRLS, a.k.a., EL GRAN AMOR DEL CONDE DRACULA).

The MONSTAAH database is indebted to agent Prof. Zahir Blue for his

research uncovering various facts about the above incident that were left

out of the filmed report, including Dracula-Mordante's involvement

(Dracula-Marlowe was a soul-clone of his based on Prof. Nero's additional

conjecture) and the identity of the mummified female vampire whom

Marlowe believed to be his "daughter," Sasha Karnstein, a member of the

infamous Karnstein clan and its array of female vampires. Prof. Blue has

composed a terrific essay covering the history of the Karnstein family,

which can be found here.

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1910

England Dracula-Denrom has his final battle with Lawrence Van

Helsing. Van Helsing triumphs and the Denrom clone is reduced to

ashes.A servant of Dracula's secretly bears away the ashes, along with

Dracula’s ring.

Lawrence Van Helsing soon dies of heart failure.*

New York The Monster created by Victor Frankenstein I travels to the

U.S.A. from a monastery in Rijeka, Croatia. With the assistance of John

Clayton, Lord Greystoke (a.k.a., Tarzan); Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; and

Nikola Tesla, the Monster thwarts an evil scheme hatched by Thomas

Edison. The Monster at long last destroys the note book of Victor I.**

* See prologue to Agent Sangster's report DRACULA A.D. 1972.

** See report The Modern Prometheus by Lovern Kindziersky.

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1912

Frankenstein, Germany Hjalmar Poelzig and his followers retrieve the

female monster known as the Bride of Frankenstein from the rubble of

the late Henry Frankenstein's laboratory, and smuggle it out of the

country.*

London Countess Elizabeth Bathory hunts the surviving members of the

party that temporarily destroyed Dracula-Prime in 1887, then runs afoul of

the benevolent soul-clone Dracula-Vlad, whom she also attempts to

destroy. In a final confrontation, Dracula-Vlad (whom Bathory secretly

realized was not truly Dracula-Prime) destroys Bathory. Prior to the final

fight between Vlad and Bathory, many members of the party are forced to

fake their own deaths, to avoid further persecution by the Countess.**

* Information derived from the file The Devil's Brood by David Jacobs.

** See Dacre Stoker's report Dracula, the Undead. Stoker erred with some

of the info he presented in the report (perhaps purposely), as he implied

that Dracula-Vlad was Dracula-Prime. The claim in this report that

Dracula-Prime was actually Quincy Harker's father, not Jonathan

Harker, was likely a skewed reference to the fact that Quincy was

transformed into a dhampiric state as a result of his mother being bitten by

the Vampire Lord while she was pregnant for him (which would cause her to

place the child in special care shortly after he was born). This info was

uncovered via the research of Prof. Barry Ward.
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1913

Transylvania Dracula-Prime reanimates and enters the Latos soul

-clone, sending him out under the name Count Lajos Czuczron, to join

the Balkan allies against the Turks.

Shortly after this, Dracula-Prime renews his interest in gaining a foothold

in Asia, this time on the island nation of Japan, when he encounters a

Japanese scholar and teacher named Shiro Kishida, who is

investigating the Vampire Lord's legend. Dracula-Prime vampirizes

Kishida, thus creating the soul-clone Dracula-Kishida, and sends him

back to his native Japan in order to create a power base for the Varnaean

strain of vampirism to which Dracula-Prime belonged. The Kishida

Clone proves to be quite savage but proficient, as he's a particularly

sadistic master of deception. He is unable to utilize Dracula-Prime's

shape-shifting or animal-and-weather-controlling abilities, and for reasons

unknown his eyes will flare gold rather than red when he's angered.

Shortly after this, Dracula-Prime encounters an English aristocrat

named John Falsworth, who travels to Transylvania in an attempt to

locate and gain control over the Vampire Lord. Dracula turns the tables

on him, however, transforming Falsworth into a vampire and sends him

back to his native England to wreak havoc there however he could.

Falsworth took on the identity of "Baron Blood," and upon returning to

England, he not only sides with Germany during World War I, he ends

up clashing with his older brother James, who is secretly the first

costumed patriotic soldier who to call himself Union Jack. Driven off by

his brother after being wounded with a silver blade, Baron Blood goes

into hiding to study the occult and develop his vampiric abilities further.

He would turn up again during World War II, where he sides with the Axis

powers. Nazi scientists perform experiments on him in order to attempt to

duplicate the process by which Dracula-Prime enables himself to move

about in sunlight, albeit in a weakened state, when he has absorbed

enough power through the Star Stone ring and specifically focused it

towards that purpose. The procedure is successful, though at the cost

of Baron Blood losing the shape-shifting power typical of a Varnaean

vampire. Nevertheless, Blood somehow gains the ability to levitate

and fly without transforming into a bat, which is an ability typically

exhibited by vampires of the 'Airskimmer' sub-strain of the Aurelius

bloodline of demonic vampire,* descended from the primordial

Turok-han, but not by most Varnaean vampires (including

Dracula-Prime himself).

During the second World War, Baron Blood battles the original

Captain America and a team of fellow 'super-soldiers' he would

occasionally lead into battle for a few missions on behalf of the Allies, who

were sometimes code-named "the Invaders" or the "All-Star Squadron,"

depending on the mission and who was commanding it. He also manages

to permanently cripple his older brother James when the latter resumes

his Union Jack identity to battle him. He sometimes works alongside a

team of Axis 'super-agents' who were alternately code-named

"Super-Axis" or "Axis Amerika" by the Axis forces.**

He is eventually slain when the aquatic hero Namor the Sub-Mariner

thrusts a silver blade through his heart. Baron Blood would be awakened

again by Dracula-Prime three and a half decades later.

Vasaria, Vasaria Ludwig Frankenstein, having recently obtained his

degree in studies of the mind, opens a new practice in the country and

village both called Vasaria, located somewhere near the border of

Switzerland and Bavaria. Ludwig brings his young daughter Elsa with

him. She quickly learns to love her new home.

Dr. Franz Frankenstein, the heavily egotistical younger brother of Dr.

Vincent Frankenstein, decided to try and emulate his family's infamous

legacy by creating a monster of his own after acquiring a copy of Henry

Frankenstein's journal, The Secrets of Life And Death. With the aid of

his servant, a hunchback named Eliot (who suffered a deformity similar to

that of Henry Frankenstein's hunchbacked assistant, Fritz), the scientist

created his own man-made monster. Upon bringing the Monster to life

using Henry Frankenstein's methods, Franz Frankenstein hypnotized

the Creature to serve his will after he briefly escaped from the scientist's

laboratory and proved himself highly dangerous after killing two children

he encountered in the woods who had thrown rocks at him after the

Monster startled them with his appearance.

Managing to illegally travel to America a few months later after bribing a

farmer named Hobbs, Frankenstein and Eliot sequester the Monster

there with them so he could gain fame and fortune by presenting his

creation to a major international scientific convention being held in New

York City, which would feature lectures by many scientists who researched

the effects of electrical stimulation on living beings. However, the mission

takes a disastrous turn when Eliot accidentally releases the Monster from

the hypnotic trance that kept him in a harmless state, and the Creature

went on a destructive rampage that resulted in him being chased onto an

ocean liner departing from the city's harbor. During an altercation with

crewmen on board the vessel, the Monster accidentally caused a fire that

apparently consumed him along with the rest of the ship, but Franz

Frankenstein and Eliot--who had pursued the Monster aboard the

ocean liner in an attempt to retrieve him--evidently managed to escape

alive.***

* Much of this info is thanks to the research conducted by vampire expert

Zahir Blue.

** See agent Roy Thomas' file "The Blackout Murders of Baron Blood!,"

published in The Invaders #7 by Marvels Comics. Some of the info in that

story was embellished for disinformation and entertainment purposes,

including the exaggeration of the power levels of the Sub-Mariner and the

synthetic "Human Torch" agent.

*** See Don Segall's file Frankenstein [#1], published by Dell Comics,

which is not to be confused with other files of the same name. The version

of the file that Segall wrote up for publication by Dell changed certain

details around in an attempt to make it appear to be an "adaptation" of the

file of the same name that was turned into a famous 1932 film by Universal

Studios. One of these changes was re-naming Dr. Frankenstein's

hunchback servant Eliot as "Fritz," which was the name of Henry

Frankenstein's own hunchbacked assistant and lackey in the Universal file.

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1914

Birth of Peter Frederick Frankenstein to Baron Wolf and Elsa

Frankenstein.

Birth of Heinrich Wolfstein to Count Imre Wolfstein and Christina

Daninsky.

Heinrich Wolfstein

Dracula-Prime is alerted--via one of his vampiric spies--to the activities of

the lethally efficient monster hunting duo Ulysses Bloodstone and

Robert Hellsgaard across Europe. He also learned, to his concern, that

Hellsgaard--a gifted engineer extremely driven by an obsessive desire to

wreak revenge on all things monstrous as the result of his wife and

children being slaughtered by werewolves many years earlier--developed

a suit of armor for himself that was equipped with a disparate array of

weaponry designed to kill supernatural creatures. Choosing to personally

lead a surprise vampiric assault on their headquarters, the Vampire Lord

grappled with Hellsgaard while in his armored suit, and quickly defeated

the monster slaying engineer, subjecting him not only to a severely

disfiguring injury, but also knocking him into an artificially created

dimensional portal opened by Hellsgaard himself.

Hellsgaard was deposited into one of the several demonic realms referred

to as "Limbo,"where he managed to survive for over 60 years before

finally being returned to the Earth dimension (due to the strange nature of

time in the Hell dimensions, Hellsgaard didn't physically age very much

during his decades trapped there).

** See Rick Remender's file chronicled in Punisher Vol. 4 #13, reprinted in

the Punisher: Franken-Castle TPB, and published by Marvels Comics.

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1917

Paris Bertrand Calliet's body, trapped in a death-like state, is exhumed

from its grave in the private cemetary of the Dumas Hospital of Mental

Health by members of the notorious French criminal organization known

as the Red Hand. This is done under the command of one of the

syndicate's leaders, the brilliant but demented scientist Dr. Cornelius

Kramm (a.k.a., 'Dr. Cornelius'). Kramm uses a device he invented that

projects simulated lunar energies to restore Calliet to full life. He dupes

the Werewolf of Paris into agreeing to temporarily work for the Red Hand

in exchange for the scientist finding a cure for his cursed form of

lycanthropy. Dr. Cornelius' actual plans, however, are to unlock the secret

of lycanthropic metamorphosis from Calliet's blood to create an army of

loup-garou mercenaries whose services he can sell to the highest

international bidders. This plot is uncovered by the dark Parisian vigilante

known as Judex, who convinces Calliet of Dr. Cornelius' deception

following a conflagration with the lycanthrope. The two then battle the

security forces of the Red Hand together, but though they succeed in

destroying the samples of Calliet's blood during the melee, the Werewolf

of Paris is gunned down by Dr. Cornelius, who utilizes a firearm loaded

with silver bullets.*

Birth of Helmut Wolfstein to Count Imre Wolfstein and Christina

Daninsky.

* See Christofer Nigro's file "The Beast Within," from the anthology The

Shadow of Judex published by Black Coat Press.

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1918

Transylvania Dracula-Latos returns to Transylvania and, in the guise of

a military officer named 'General Targo,' who has again taken up Vlad

"The Impaler" Tepes' ghastly practice of impaling enemies, in this case

German soldiers imprisoned in a P.O.W. camp. There he encounters a

young adventurer named Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr., who was sent

there as one of a small group of secret agents to investigate the raid on

the camp.

The two battle and Dracula-Latos is destroyed,* only to be taken to the

secret cache within the bowels of Castle Dracula where the soul-clones

are kept when not active. Dracula-Prime revives the Lejos Clone, who is

given the ring and dispatched to London to take his revenge on the

Harkers.

Once in London, Dracula-Lejos takes a hapless derelict named Andreas*

and reactivates his dormant lycanthropy, making him his minion.**

Before he sets his plan of revenge into motion, he begins to build up his

strength by feeding on the inhabitants of London. He is thwarted and

staked by Lady Jane Ainsley and Prof. Walter Sanders. Ainsley and

Sanders bury Dracula-Lejos' remains in an unmarked grave in

London.***

Just prior to his enslavement of Andreas, Dracula-Lejos encounters a

young hedonistic nightclub owner named Adrian Connell, who managed

to recognize Lejos as 'Dracula,' and tells him of his desire to join the

ranks of the Undead so he can enjoy the pleasures of physical existence

forever. In exchange for offering the Vampire Lord inroads into the club

scene--which potentially offered him many victims and social networking

opportunities--he agrees, and attempts to transform Connell into a

soul-clone of himself (thus making him yet another secondary soul-clone).

The result was a less-than-successful soul-clone we have

designated Dracula-Adrian. Since Adrian is largely an incompetent

despite his ability to run a nightclub, he is unable to access the inherent

shape-shifting powers Dracula-Lejos imbued him with, and his ability to

utilize mesmerism is partly impaired.

Nevertheless, he ends up making a name for himself in

the club scene under his real first name, sometimes referring to himself as

the "son of Dracula." A good degree of his original persona appears to

have "leaked" into the dominant "Dracula" persona, and he retains his

original love of general hedonism, including dancing and

womanizing.

Undaunted by this failure, Dracula-Lejos quickly creates

another secondary soul-clone when he transforms would-be latter

day European alchemist and vampire fanatic Zandor Vorkov into the

soul-clone we have designated Dracula-Vorkov. Though the Vorkov

Clone proves unable to access the shape-shifting abilities that

Dracula-Lejos possesses, he did have his full strength, as well as an

ability not demonstrated by most other soul-clones:

Upon wearing a duplicate of the Star Stone ring that

Vorkov creates from another meteorite with similar ferrous

properties to the first, he finds that he can

channel his will into it so as to cause the stone to project a beam of

destructive energy with enough power to fully immolate an adult human

being with a single blast. Pleased with this particular

soul-clone of his, Dracula-Lejos sends the Vorkov Clone to seek out and

gain control over another man-made monster that he discovered was

recently created by one of the Frankenstein clan, in this case Dr. Vera

Frankenstein after she had evidently moved to America and settled in the

San Fernando Valley.

The full details of that incident have yet to be uncovered by us,

but this particular Monster copycat was of inferior

quality to most of his predecessors, with his flesh largely necrotic,

and he was rendered insensate by means unknown. Unimpressed with

this particular Monster, Dracula-Vorkov allows the Creature to be

placed in a certain grave in California just in case he may ever have use

for him again; he then goes off to embark upon other, as yet

undetermined missions. Neither of the two turn up in our records again

until the year 1969.

* See Jonathan Hensleigh's file TRANSYLVANIA, 1918 (a.k.a., MASKS OF

EVIL), which is part of the master file entitled THE YOUNG

INDIANA JONES CHRONICLES.

** For more on Andreas, see Prof. Dennis Power's article Hyde and Hair.

*** See Lew Landers' file RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE.
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1919

Frankenstein, Germany Baron Wolf Frankenstein, his wife Elsa, and

their young son Peter Frederick move to their ancestral estate, Castle

Frankenstein, much to the fear of the villagers.

The Baron soon makes the acquaintance of his father's assistant, Ygor.*

Ygor had been hiding Henry Frankenstein’s Monster all these years,

using him for his devilish purposes. Playing on Wolf's sympathy, Ygor

persuades him to bring the Monster back to its full strength.**

Wolf is caught in his endeavors by Inspector Krogh, who as a boy had

one of his arms ripped from its socket by the rampaging Monster. Krogh

showed Wolf the error of his ways, and the two work together to destroy

Ygor and the Monster. The Monster is thrown into a pit of lava, and Ygor

is shot repeatedly but as has been proven over and over, you cannot kill

the Undead. The Baron decides to leave the Frankenstein estate to the

villagers in order to make up for the damage he and his ancestors were

responsible for.***

Before Wolf and his family take their leave, the Baron constructs a new

arm for Inspector Krogh to replace the wooden appendage he lost during

this horrid affair. This new arm is a thing of mechanical wonder,

possessing many devices that Krogh will find useful as a law enforcer.

Paris Dracula-Mordante travels to the City of Love to offer the gift of

immortality via vampirism to a popular French singer/actress/dancer

known as Gabrielle Deslys, whom the Vampire Lord greatly admires.

Deslys is a woman of good and generous moral fiber who is nevertheless

persuaded by the Count to succumb to desperation by her desire to

retain her fading youth and avoid the unpleasant detrimental effects of old

age. This forces her to prey upon humans for sustenance, and to this end

she targets certain influential moguls of the entertainment industry whom

she believes to have started losing interest in her services during the last

few years of her mortal life once she started approaching middle age.

Over the following months, the resulting disappearances catch the

attention of the lethal Parisian mystery man known as Judex, who tracks

Deslys down to a room she had at the Grand Hotel. This brings Judex

into a fierce conflict with Dracula-Mordante, whom the vigilante dispenser

of justice barely manages to slay with a shard of silver-backed broken

mirror glass, thanks to the timely assistance of his ally and sidekick, the

Licorice Kid. Deslys is then beheaded by Judex, ending her new

vampiric existence for good.****

* At this point Ygor had been hanged, shot, and suffered so many

beatings by the villagers that his indestructible body was more misshapen

than ever.

** Ygor was planning to deliver the fully charged creature to his dark sire,

Dracula-Lejos.

*** See file SON OF FRANKENSTEIN by Rowland V. Lee.

**** See Christofer Nigro's file "The Ultimate Prize" from the anthology The

Shadow of Judex, published by Black Coat Press.

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1920

Baron Wolf Frankenstein and his family move to New York City to be

with their American cousins.

New York City The vampire Angel, having since had his soul restored to

him--which returned him to his benevolent persona as a result--takes a job

at a mental hospital. While there, he discovers the original Frankenstein

Monster, having been held captive in a room located within a seldom

frequented area of the building by the head physician of the hospital for a

few years.*

The Monster had been cursed by a gypsy practitioner of magick out of

revenge for past enmity between the Monster and the gypsy's tribe, so

that the souls of the eight human beings whose body parts comprised the

Monster were summoned back from the afterlife and bonded with their

former bodily parts. As a result, their constant psychic assault on the

Creature now utilizing their gestalt body drove the Monster insane, and

he ended up a captive at the hospital.

Upon being discovered by Angel, who recognized his old foe, the

Monster escaped and the two battled again to

no real resolution as the Monster struggled to keep the eight ghosts

haunting his own body at bay.

The end of this fiasco saw the Monster fall before an oncoming subway

train, where he was severely injured but incorrectly believed to have been

killed when puddles of his blood and pieces of his flesh were discovered

there. However, the accident managed to free the eight souls co-opting

the Monster's patchwork form, and they returned to their proper place in

the afterlife, with the Monster's "new" soul again the sole consciousness

inhabiting his form.**

The Monster sought solitude for the lengthy process of healing, and

sometime afterwards he once more returned to the Arctic, only to find

himself frozen in suspended animation yet again. Though the Monster's

vocal chords had healed following his 1898 encounter with Dracula-

Prime, each sojourn in icy suspended animation during the 20th century

would have the undesirable side effect of causing his larynx to become

inoperative once more (though he would become able to speak again after

each subsequent revival, once via a surgical procedure, and once via

intensive speech therapy).

Following the severe injury suffered by the Monster as reported above,

samples of the Creature's blood and flesh were recovered by agents of

CIALD. They fell into the hands of various black ops government programs,

who put them to use in different projects designed to create man-made

monsters who served the interests of the U.S. government during World

War II.

One such black ops program, referred to as Project M, used some of the

knowledge obtained from studying the Monster's blood and patchwork

tissue samples to help recreate the severely damaged body of Pvt. Elliot

"Lucky" Taylor, thus effectively transforming him into a man-made monster

resembling the original Frankenstein Monster and various copycat

creations, in both appearance and physical might. Taylor went on to join the

monstrous elite American covert military unit known in modern legend as

the original Creature Commandos (more on them in the section of this

timeline detailing the years of World War II, 1921-1949).

* In the source for this report (see below) it was incorrectly stated that the

Monster was held at the sanitarium for "over fifteen years." This was not

accurate, as the Monster was previously seen active in 1910, so his time

as a prisoner/patient in that hospital could not have been more than just a

few years.

** For the full report, see John Byrne's file Angel vs. Frankenstein II:

Fragments, published by IDW Comics.

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Triumvirate of Terror Timeline:

1900-1920