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Kolchak the Night Stalker

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I feel as if I've already covered this one, but a search of my past blog posts shows I have not.  I guess I've just covered the character and series so much in other posts and the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia over the years that it just seemed so familiar.  So, now, long overdue, here is Carl Kolchak, and the series that inspired the X-Files.

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ARMY OF DARKNESS (FILM)Release Date: 1992 (Setting follows the events of Evil Dead 2, but due to time travel, the main story takes place in the year 1300)Series: Evil DeadThe Story: At the end of his battle with the Deadites in the cabin in the woods, Ash is pulled back in time to the year 1300 where he must face a Deadite army and retrieve the Necronomicon ex Mortis if he wants to return to his own time period.
Notes: Pardon my lack of objectiveness, but this is a great movie. It is the third film in the Evil Dead series. In the Kolchak: The Night Stalker Chronicles, it’s revealed that the Necronomicon ex Mortis is the same Necronomicon from Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Some writers get the two books confused and conflate them accidentally, so it’s nice to know there’s an in-story explanation for it. They are the same book. However, for the purposes of this reference guide, if it’s called the Necronomicon, the cross goes to Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, and when it’s called the Necronomicon ex Mortis it goes to Evil Dead. Note that the Demonicon, though similar in purpose and name, is not the same book. That book, which comes from the interconnected works of Donald F. Glut, has appeared with the Necronomicon in numerous stories, demonstrating that they are not the same book. This film follows Evil Dead II and is followed by the Evil Dead: Hail to the King video game. This film has been referenced as fictional, paid homage to, and spoofed numerous times in other films and on television.
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ALL-CONSUMING FIRE (NOVEL BY ANDY LANE)Release Date: 1994 (Setting is February to April 1887 though the Doctor himself is a time traveller whose original time period is unknown, but assumed to be contemporary.)Series: Doctor WhoHorror Crosses: Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; Anno Dracula (see Notes); Kolchak the Night StalkerNon-Horror Crosses: Sherlock Holmes; Lost World, Fu Manchu; Inspector Cribb; T.S. Ellliot’s The Waste LandThe Story: The seventh Doctor meets Holmes and Watson and together they defeat an Old One called Azathoth.Notes: Elsewhere in this book I’ve discussed both Anno Dracula and Holmes in the Horror Universe. This story brings in two TV series to the Horror Universe: Doctor Who and Kolchak the Night Stalker.
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ANNO DRACULA (SERIES BY KIM NEWMAN)Release Date: 1992 - 2013 (so far) [Setting is 1888 -1991 (so far)]Series: Anno DraculaHorror Crosses: Dracula (novel); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Invisible Man (novel); The Island of Doctor Moreau; The Vampyre; Varney the Vampire; The Soft Whisper of the Dead; They Thirst; Hotel Transylvania; The Black Castle; The Vampire Tapestry; Stephen King Universe; Carmilla; Good Lady Ducayne; The Tomb of Sarah; Ken’s Mystery; The Mysterious Stranger (story); The True Story of a Vampire; Carnacki Ghost Finder; Black Sabbath; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice Vampire Lestat series); The Werewolves of London (Brian Stableford); Count Yorga; The Fearless Vampire Killers; Brides of Dracula; Vampire Circus; Dracula (Universal); Dark Shadows; El Vampiro; Black Sunday; Martin (George A. Romero film); Kolchak the Night Stalker; Blacula; Nosferatu; Kiss of the Vampire; Mr. Vampire; Blood of the Vampire; Daughters of Darkness; Dracula (Hammer); Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; Averoigne; Grave of the Vampire/Seed of Terror; Hellraiser; Alraune; The Black Cat (film); Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural; The Vampire Thrills; Faustine; Near Dark; Forever Knight; Fright Night; The House of Dracula (novel by R. Chetwynd-Hayes); Anak Pontianak; Necroscope; Revelations in Black; The Dragon Waiting; The Bloody Pit of Horror/The Crimson Executioner; The Playgirls and the Vampire; The Niece of the Vampire/Fangs of the Vampire; The Phantom of the Opera; Incense for the Damned/Bloodsuckers; Addams Family (television); Frankenstein (Universal); The Monkey’s Paw; Three Mothers trilogy; Toby Dammit; The Exorcist; Cave of the Living Dead; The Golem (1920 film); The Old Dark House; Cat People; Black Magic (film); Spirits of the Dead; Les Vampires; The Awful Doctor Orloff; A Bucket of Blood; Those Who Hunt By Night/Immortal Blood/Traveling with the Dead; The Hunger; Fevre Dream; Empire of Fear; Dr. Blood’s Coffin; The Vampire’s Ghost; The Horrible Sexy Vampire; Mark of the Vampire; Vampire (1979); Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Gray; El Hombre Lobo; Curse of the Undead; Circus of Horrors; The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus; Twice Bitten/Vampire Hookers; The Lost Boys; Deathmaster; Velvet Vampire; I, Vampire; Nancy Baker’s Vampire Stories; Sunglasses After Dark; Vamps (Vertigo Comics); Blade; Scooby-Doo; Hellboy; Nocturna; Rosemary’s Baby; American Psycho; Lost Souls; Elvira; Rosemary’s Baby; The Films of Tarantino and Rodriguez; Light at the End; Andy Warhol’s Dracula/Blood for Dracula; Geek Maggot Bingo; Daughter of Darkness; Nightmare in Blood; Madhouse; Vampire Junction/Vanitas; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Shadowman; Werewolf of London; Little Shop of Horrors; Texas Chainsaw Massacre; The Howling; Gremlins; Suckers: Bleeding London Dry; Desire the Vampire/I Desire; The Creature Commandos; The Vampire (1957); The Vampire (Sydney Horler)Non-Horror Crosses: Too numerous to list. The Story: In 1888, during the events of Bram Stoker’s novel, events diverge and Dracula marries Queen Victoria, causing a major alteration in the socio-political world for the next 125 years and beyond.Notes: This is a divergent timeline, but not a parallel universe. In my theory, a parallel universe is created at the dawn of time at the same time as the main universe and other parallel universes. They may evolve similarly, but they are separate. Meanwhile, each universe has a main timeline, and at each moment, there are an infinite number of divergent timelines created off of the main timeline. When thinking of divergent timelines, try picturing a fork in the road. Both paths lead in different directions, but they both start at the same point, and once were the same road. The Anno Dracula timeline has shown to be an alternate timeline of the main Horror Universe in several other entries in this reference guide. Because it’s a divergent timeline, the above horror crosses, though depicted in an alternate manner, should still count for inclusions in the Horror Universe. Some of the above crossed series are already in, and the others are brought in via this crossover series despite being an alternate timeline series. For the record, the complete Anno Dracula series (thus far) consists of Anno Dracula, the Bloody Red Baron: Anno Dracula 1918, Judgement of Tears: Anno Dracula 1959 (aka Dracula Cha Cha Cha), Coppola’s Dracula (from the Mammoth Book of Dracula), Castle in the Desert: Anno Dracula 1977, Andy Warhol’s Dracula: Anno Dracula 1978 - 1979 (from the Mammoth Book of Vampires), Who Dares Wins: Anno Dracula 1980, The Other Side of Midnight (from Vampire Sextette), You are the Wind Beneath My Wings: Anno Dracula 1984) and Johnny Alucard.
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SCARLET TRACES: THE GREAT GAME # 1 - 4 (DARK HORSE COMICS)Release Date: 2006 (Setting is early 20th century, four decades after the 1898 Martian invasion)Series: War of the Worlds (novel)Horror Crosses: Kolchak the Night StalkerNon-Horror Crosses: The Man Who Would Be King; First Men in the Moon; Dan Dare; Doctor Who; Fantastic Four; John Carter; Out of the Silent Planet; PerelandraThe Story: The war between England and Mars continues.Notes: This is a continuation of the divergent steampunk reality first introduced in Scarlet Traces.

TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN VOLUME 6: GRAND GUIGNOL “THE CHILDREN OF HERACLES” (STORY BY ROMAN LEARY)Release Date: 2010 (Setting is 1949)Series: Tales of the ShadowmenHorror Crosses: Behemoth the Sea Monster; the Magnetic Monster; Kolchak the Night Stalker; The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms; Night of the Living Dead; Phantoms; Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; “The Stephen King Universe” (the works of Stephen King)Non-Horror Crosses: Nyctalope; Andromeda Strain; Quatermass; Doctor Who; Big Bad John; Six Million Dollar ManThe Story: The heroic Nyctalope is in California teaming with Professor Quatermass against the evil Agent Lord.Notes: There are appearances of characters from Behemoth the Sea Monster, the Magnetic Monster, Kolchak the Night Stalker, Big Bad John, and the Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. Behemoth the Sea Monster is a 1959 monster film. The Magnetic Monster is a 1953 monster movie. Kolchak the Night Stalker is a 1970s television series about a reporter who investigates the unknown, particularly the supernatural. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is another 1953 giant sea monster movie. Agent Lord is intended to be the time travelling Time Lord villain called the Master from the sci-fi series Doctor Who, using an alias. He refers to events from the future, from the Andromeda Strain, Night of the Living Dead, Phantoms, and Stephen King’s Desperation. He also refers to the Shoggoth from Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. The Nyctalope is of course the French vigilante from the early 20th century. Quatermass is the main character from the British television series of the same name. Big Bad John is the main character from the song of the same name from country singer Jimmy Dean. The OSI (Office of Scientific Investigation) is mentioned here, which is in the Magnetic Monster, but also from the novel Cyborg, which became the basis for the television series Six Million Dollar Man and the spin-off Bionic Woman. All of the above mentioned series, books, and films are all shown to co-exist in the Horror Universe, though of course only the horror crosses can be used to link and bring in further crossovers. And yes, once again, Doctor Who is in the Horror Universe!!! And see my notes elsewhere for how zombie movies fit into the Horror Universe.
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KOLCHAK & HONEY WEST # 1 “HIGH HEELS & HEDONISM” (MOONSTONE)Release Date: December 1, 2012 (Setting is mid to late 1960s)Series: Kolchak the Night Stalker; Honey WestThe Story: While still a cub reporter, Kolack meets and works with Honey West. At a gentlemen’s club, women are disappearing and becoming someone’s main course.Notes: Honey West was a crime drama that aired for just one season, from 1965 - 1966. This story most likely takes place between episodes or shortly after the end of the series. Kolchak’s series ran from 1974 - 1975. Thus this is one of his earliest recorded adventures.
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THE NIGHT STALKER (NOVEL BY JEFF RICE)Release Date: 1973 (Contemporary Setting)Series: Kolchak the Night StalkerNon-Horror Crosses: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; Ellery Queen; Sherlock HolmesThe Story: Kolchak is a Vegas reporter who gets assigned the police beat and soon finds himself investigating a series of murders that seems as if they were the work of a vampire.
Notes: This novel is the first appearance of Carl Kolchak that was later made into a TV movie that served as the pilot for the television series. Some books that are listed in this novel as being real are David McDaniel’s the Vampire Affair (as in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), W.S. Baring-Gould’s biography Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, The Whole Art of Detection (by Sherlock Holmes), and Ellery Queen’s A Study in Terror.
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FEVER PITCH (MOONSTONE COMICS)Release Date: 2002 (See notes for setting)Series: Kolchak the Night StalkerNon-Horror Crosses: Sherlock HolmesThe Story: For three nights in a row in Los Angeles, a man spontaneously combusts. Oddly, the witness of one night’s event is the victim the next night. And each night, a very different type of monster is spotted on the scene.Notes: A police officer mentions that he plans to retire and raise bees just like Sherlock Holmes. Note that this is meant to be the same Kolchak from the television series of the 1970s, but it seems to occur in contemporary times (circa 2002) based on modern technology. I could place this in an alternate timeline where events of the series happened thirty years later, but I prefer to keep these series in the 1970s to fit with the original series. So I recommend ignoring the contemporary references, but I leave it up to each reader to decide for themselves.
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KOLCHAK: TALES OF THE NIGHT STALKER # 3 “THE CREATURES OF HABBIT” (MOONSTONE COMICS)Release Date: 2004 (Setting is 1976)Series: Kolchak the Night StalkerHorror Crosses: GremlinsThe Story: Kolchak is in Habbit, Oregon where he and a real estate agent end up fighting Gremlins.Notes: These are the same type of Gremlins from the film of the same name, thus bringing in that film and its sequel.

KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER CHRONICLES “INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE?” (SHORT STORY BY MARK DAWIDZIAK)Release Date: 2005 (Setting is confusing so see notes)Series: Kolchak the Night StalkerHorror Crosses: Dark ShadowsThe Story: Kolchak visit Collinsport Maine where he meets Barnabas Collins and his servant Willie Loomis. Notes: Collins, Loomis, and Collinsport are from Dark Shadows. This story is set shortly after the final episode of Kolchak, which aired on March 28, 1975. And yet the story seems to take place in modern times with cell phones and laptops. It’s comic book and cartoon timeline logic, which doesn’t work for me in regards to the Horror Universe. I could of course place this in some divergent timeline where everything is time delayed by 30 years, but why take out a damn fine crossover like this from the main timeline? So I feel it’s best to include it in the main Horror Universe timeline and just ignore the contemporary references. But I leave it up to each reader to make their own call.
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KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER CHRONICLES “WHAT EVERY COIN HAS” (SHORT STORY BY C.J. HENDERSON)Release Date: 2005 (See Notes for Setting)Series: Kolchak the Night StalkerHorror Crosses: Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; Evil Dead; The Salem Horror Non-Horror Crosses: Incredible Hulk (TV)The Story: Marvin Richards is the host of a show called Challenge of the Unknown, and wishes for Kolchak to be on the show. Richards uses the Necronomicon to summon the demon called NyogthaNotes: This is another in the recent series of Kolchak stories that seem to be set in the 1970s time period of the show and also in the modern 21st century. Even though this story has references to Oprah Winfrey, it also seems to be contemporary to the events of other shows like the Incredible Hulk. I could place this in some time delayed alternate timeline, but I prefer my Kolchak in his original setting. But I’ll let each reader decide for themselves. This book features the Necronomicon, which comes from Lovecraft’s mythos. Richards mentions that the book has other names. He references the real life fake Necronomicon of George Hays and Fred Pelton’s Sussex Manuscript, which makes the implication that those fake versions are very real versions of the Necronomicon in the Horror Universe (which is kind of cool, because I have the George Hays Necronomicon on my bookshelf). He also states another name for the book is the Necronomicon ex Mortis, which is the version of the book from the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness series, featuring the semi-heroic Ashley Williams. So that brings that series into the Horror Universe. The summoned demon Nyogtha comes from the book The Salem Horror, which is also brought in via Tales of the Shadowmen. Richards makes a reference to wishing he had hired that reporter who had been chasing the big green monster instead for the show. That’s McGee, from the 1970s television series The Incredible Hulk. There’s plenty of room for both versions (comics and TV) of the Hulk in the Horror Universe. The comic features Bruce Banner (technically Dr. Robert David Bruce Banner) while the show features Dr. David Banner. They both become green monsters called the Hulk, but the level of their powers and size are different. The origins behind becoming the Hulk and their struggles after are also very different. So both could be in independently. I had considered making the Hulk a horror cross. After all, he is a monster. The original four issue Hulk comic was much more of horror themed book as well, but once he resurfaced in the Avengers, his storyline followed a much more typical super-hero theme. And the show of course is considered a super-hero show for that reason, though it’s more in line with the wandering stranger shows of that era where someone goes from town to town, usually trying to hide and keep out of trouble, but ending up getting involved in the lives of people in the town in trouble and coming to their rescue. Marvin Richards has also appeared in other Henderson stories, All that Glitters and A Forty Share in Innsmouth, but he’s not so much a series lead as a recurring character used by the author in whatever theme he’s covering, in this case Lovecraft.
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KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER CHRONICLES “OPEN HOUSE” (SHORT STORY BY MAX ALLAN COLLINS)Release Date: 2005 (Setting is 1976)Series: Kolchak the Night StalkerHorror Crosses: Return of the Living Dead; Night of the Living DeadThe Story: Kolchak is investigating a haunted house that kills real estate agents.Notes: At one point in the story, Kolchak references a conspiracy theory about biological weapons causing a zombie outbreak in Pennsylvania. This is a reference to both Night of the Living Dead and the Return of the Dead series. That reference brings in those series of films. Return of the Dead was a sort of sequel to Night of the Living Dead, in that it states that Night of the Living Dead was a film based on true events, but in actuality, the outbreak was smaller and contained, which works better for the Horror Universe. Kolchak’s remarks towards it being a conspiracy that the government wants to hide from the government helps support a major premise of the Horror Universe regarding events depicted when cities are overrun by monsters or when alien invasions occur.
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THE LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR (MOONSTONE BOOKS)Release Date: 2007 (See notes for setting)Series: Kolchak the Night StalkerHorror Crosses: Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; Teddy LondonNon-Horror Crosses: Turlogh O’BrienThe Story: Kolchak investigates an account of a strange sea creature.Notes: Kolchak is the main character of a cult classic television series of the 1970s. This series seems to occur in the present as if the Kolchak series occurred 30 years later, but it’s better in context with the crossovers to consider this to be the Horror Universe Kolchak in the 1970s. The sea creature is a Deep One from Lovecraft’s Shadow Over Innsmouth. One of Teddy London’s adventures is mentioned as having happened. This brings in C.J. Henderson’s Teddy London series. There are also winged creatures in the story connected to the tales of Turlogh O’Brien by Robert E. Howard and a Teddy London story. Henderson also includes other references to his works and Lovecraft’s. Marvin Richards and his show “Challenge of the Unknown” appear again, having been previously seen in the Kolchak story by C.J. Henderson titled “What Every Coin Has”. The story also references Shub-Niggurath, Cthulhu, the Esoteric Order of Dagon, and the Necronomicon, all from Lovecraft’s Mythos.
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CRY OF THUNDER (MOONSTONE)Release Date: 2009 (Setting is 1905 and 1979)Series: Sherlock Holmes; Kolchak the Night StalkerThe Story: Kolchak is asked to solve a decades old case, one originally worked on by Sherlock Holmes. Notes: When working on the case, Kolchak is sent a manuscript for an unpublished Holmes story, with a handwritten note on the cover from Holmes requesting it be sent to Kolchak!!!
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PARTNERS IN CRIME (NOVEL BY C.J. HENDERSON AND JOE GENTILE)Release Date: 2009 (See notes for setting)Series: Kolchak the Night StalkerNon-Horror Crosses: Mr. Moto; Blackshirt; C.J. Henderson’s other works; Pat Novak for Hire; Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost PersonsThe Story: A group of investigators work together when a certain gem on display at a museum might very well endanger the world.Notes: This is part of the group of modern Kolchak stories, set in the modern times. For the rest, I’ve chosen to ignore references that tie it to the present like technology and pop culture references in order to keep them in the main Horror Universe timeline with the original series, but this novel uses modern technology like Skype, the internet, and one character’s huge bank of computers as key plot points. Thus this must take place in the present or at least not too long ago. Which would mean Kolchak looks good of his age. Other characters involved in this story are Mr. Moto from the novels by John P. Marquand, Blackshirt from Moonstone Comics, some characters from other Henderson stories, Pat Novak from the 1940s radio show, and Mr. Keen from the very long running radio show.
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KOLCHAK THE NIGHT STALKER AND DR. MOREAU # 1 (MOONSTONE)Release Date: March 1, 2013 (See notes for setting)Series: Kolchak the Night Stalker; Island of Doctor MoreauNon-Horror Crosses: Time MachineThe Story: Scientists uncover the island where Moreau had conducted his experiments. They find that the Ani-Men have survived and multiplied, creating a colony. As always happens, they think it’s a great idea to bring the monsters back to civilization.Notes: A man appears who seems to be the Time Traveller, wishing to destroy the Ani-Men, as they will allegedly evolve into the future Morlocks.
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KOLCHAK: NECRONOMICON (NOVEL BY C.J. HENDERSON)Release Date: July 30, 2013 (see notes for setting)Series: Kolchak the Night StalkerHorror Crosses: Lovecraft’s Cthulhu MythosThe Story: Kolchak finds himself investigating a story that pulls him fully into the Lovecraftian mythology. Notes: Henderson’s Kolchak stories are set in the present, but often have had elements and crossovers that argue that the story should take place in the 1970s. We could choose to place these stories in a divergent reality where Kolchak and several other people were born about 30 years later, or we could ignore the modern technology and pop culture references and read the stories as taking place during the original era of the Kolchak television series. I prefer the latter.

THE ROCKFORD FILES (TELEVISION SERIES)SEASON 6 EPISODE 12 “DEADLOCK IN PARMA” Release Date: January 10, 1980 (Contemporary Setting)Horror Crosses: Kolchak the Night StalkerThe Story: Rockford leaves town for the country. When a town council member who enjoys fishing with Rockford is hospitalized with appendicitis, Rockford become his proxy, and finds himself pressured by the mob over an environmental issue.Notes: Rockford gets help from a reporter from the Independent News Service. Carl Kolchak also worked for the Independent News Service, thus bringing the Rockford Files into the Horror Universe.

MARVEL TEAM-UP # 111 - 112 “OF SPIDERS AND SERPENTS” / “A KING COMES RIDING” (MARVEL COMICS)Release Date: November - December 1981 (Contemporary Setting and circa 18,000 - 20,000 B.C.)Series: Spider-Man; Devil-Slayer; KullHorror Crosses: Doctor StrangeNon-Horror Crosses: Defenders; Sub-Mariner; HulkThe Story: Spider-Man rescues the Defenders from the Serpent Men. In the process, Spider-Man is poisoned, and the only cure can be found in the ancient past. Doctor Strange sends Spider-Man to the past where he meets Kull and gains his cure.Notes: Two parter. The first featured Spider-Man and the Devil Salyer. Part two featured Spider-Man and Kull. Kull’s past has been firmly established to exist in the Horror Universe mainly due to Robert E. Howard’s tendency to include links to Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos in his sword and sorcery stories. In the Horror Universe, I believe Spider-Man and other Marvel heroes did operate for a short time of about 25 years, from the 1960s to the mid 1980s. The Defenders team in this story is Doctor Strange, Sub-Mariner, Hulk, Devil-Slayer, Gargoyle, and Valkyrie. Doctor Strange has several crosses, most notably with Tomb of Dracula. The Sub-Mariner has crosses in both the golden age and the silver age. The Hulk here is the comics version, as opposed to the television series that was brought in via a reference in a Kolchak story. Since the comics version is Bruce and the television version is David, they could still both exist in the Horror Universe. The Devil-Slayer had his own series, which was a horror/super-hero type series. Gargoyle and Valkyrie are both original characters from the Defenders series.

ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES (ANIMATED SERIES)SEASON 1 EPISODE 3 “TOMATOES FROM THE BLACK LAGOON”Release Date: September 22, 1990 (Contemporary Setting)Horror Crosses: Creature from the Black LagoonNon-Horror Crosses: Hulk (Comic)The Story: This week’s adventure takes the heroes (and villains) to the Black Lagoon, and there is an encounter with the Hulk at the airport. Notes: This cross with Creature from the Black Lagoon brings the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes films and cartoon into the Horror Universe. It also brings the comic book version of the Hulk in. The TV version is brought in via a crossover with Kolchak.
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THE KATRINA PROTOCOL (NOVEL BY JEAN-MARC AND RANDY LOFFICIER)Release Date: 2007 (Setting is August 2005)Series: Club Van HelsingHorror Crosses: Dracula (Bram Stoker); White Zombie; Brother Voodoo; Child’s Play; Tales of the Zombie; Revolt of the Zombies; Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; I Walked with a Zombie; Zombies on Broadway; Kolchak the Night Stalker; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; The Works of Stephen King; Charmed; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; The Lives of the Mayfair Witches; The Body Snatchers (novel); Carnacki Ghost Finder; The Exorcist (novel); the ThingNon-Horror Crosses: Too Numerous to List. The Story: During Hurricane Katrina, Hugo Van Helsing must fight zombies raised by a voodoo priest.Notes: Hugo Van Helsing comes from the famous vampire hunting family, and his ancestors have met many famous figures of fiction, accounting for the large number of crossovers.
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MARVEL ZOMBIES VS. ARMY OF DARKNESS # 1 - 5 (MARVEL COMICS AND DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT)Release Date: May - September 2007 (Contemporary Setting)Series: Marvel Zombies; Evil DeadHorror Crosses: Lovecraft’s Cthulhu MythosThe Story: After he is apparently killed, Ash finds himself instead transported to an alternate reality that was once filled with super-heroes and villains but has since been overrun by a zombie virus.Notes: The Marvel Zombies series takes place in an alternate version of the Marvel Comics Universe where everyone has become zombies. This story makes it clear that Ash is from a separate alternate universe that is not filled with lots of super-heroes. Officially (according to Marvel Comics), the Marvel Universe is designated Earth-616 by the Watchers. Marvel Zombies is set on Earth-2149. Marvel also says that the world that Ash comes from (which is the setting of the Dynamite Entertainment comics and the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness films) is Earth-818793. So if we are to believe Marvel’s staff and the Watchers, then Earth-818793 is the Horror Universe, and in fact, the Horror Multiverse and Marvel Multiverse are one and the same. Also of interest, in the story, Ash and some non-zombie heroes wish to obtain Doctor Doom’s copy of the Necronomicon. The Evil Dead/Army of Darkness series usually uses the Necronomicon ex Mortis, but a Kolchak story listed elsewhere in this guide reveals that the two are merely variations of the same book.

THE “SUPERNATURAL” BOOK OF MONSTERS, DEMONS, SPIRITS AND GHOULS (NOVEL BY ALEX IRVINE)Release Date: September 4, 2007 (Contemporary Setting)Series: SupernaturalHorror Crosses: Kolchak the Night StalkerThe Story: A book that is written by the Winchesters talking about all the monsters they are familiar with. Notes: Considering how much they value secrecy, I have to imagine this book is written only for their own reference in-story. In the entry for the Rakshasa, it is mentioned that journalist Carl Kolchak once encountered this creature.
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December 8, 2014--HORROR CROSSOVER ENCYCLOPEDIA--"Foreword by Ivan Ronald Schabloski"--This foreword is written to by someone who lives within the Horror Universe.  Ivan references Carl Kolchak.  "Sometimes people realize that there is truth in the stories that the world considers fiction, and sometimes those people try to get the word out to the masses. At one point it would have been considered ironic that these efforts are themselves considered to be fictional, but now it’s just cliche. Carl Kolchak knew, and he tried to tell the truth in a book titled THE NIGHT STALKER. The book sold well enough, but as a work of fiction."

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ASSIGNMENT: ETERNITY (NOVEL BY GREG COX)Release Date: 1998 (Setting is 2269 A.D.)Series: Star TrekHorror Crosses: Kolchak the Night StalkerNon-Horror Crosses: The Avengers (television); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. The Questor Tapes; Mission Impossible; James Bond; The Prisoner; The Andromeda StrainThe Story: Gary Seven and his partner Roberta Lincoln travel from the year 1969 to the 23rd century and once more encounter the crew of the Enterprise, commanded by Captain James T. Kirk.
Notes: This novel is a sequel to the Star Trek episode Assignment Earth, which introduced Gary Seven in what was meant to be a pilot for his own series. Gary and his assistant mention having knowledge of the people or events from all of the above listed crosses.

BLACULA

ANNO DRACULA (SERIES BY KIM NEWMAN)Release Date: 1992 - 2013 (so far) [Setting is 1888 -1991 (so far)]Series: Anno DraculaHorror Crosses: Dracula (novel); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Invisible Man (novel); The Island of Doctor Moreau; The Vampyre; Varney the Vampire; The Soft Whisper of the Dead; They Thirst; Hotel Transylvania; The Black Castle; The Vampire Tapestry; Stephen King Universe; Carmilla; Good Lady Ducayne; The Tomb of Sarah; Ken’s Mystery; The Mysterious Stranger (story); The True Story of a Vampire; Carnacki Ghost Finder; Black Sabbath; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice Vampire Lestat series); The Werewolves of London (Brian Stableford); Count Yorga; The Fearless Vampire Killers; Brides of Dracula; Vampire Circus; Dracula (Universal); Dark Shadows; El Vampiro; Black Sunday; Martin (George A. Romero film); Kolchak the Night Stalker; Blacula; Nosferatu; Kiss of the Vampire; Mr. Vampire; Blood of the Vampire; Daughters of Darkness; Dracula (Hammer); Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; Averoigne; Grave of the Vampire/Seed of Terror; Hellraiser; Alraune; The Black Cat (film); Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural; The Vampire Thrills; Faustine; Near Dark; Forever Knight; Fright Night; The House of Dracula (novel by R. Chetwynd-Hayes); Anak Pontianak; Necroscope; Revelations in Black; The Dragon Waiting; The Bloody Pit of Horror/The Crimson Executioner; The Playgirls and the Vampire; The Niece of the Vampire/Fangs of the Vampire; The Phantom of the Opera; Incense for the Damned/Bloodsuckers; Addams Family (television); Frankenstein (Universal); The Monkey’s Paw; Three Mothers trilogy; Toby Dammit; The Exorcist; Cave of the Living Dead; The Golem (1920 film); The Old Dark House; Cat People; Black Magic (film); Spirits of the Dead; Les Vampires; The Awful Doctor Orloff; A Bucket of Blood; Those Who Hunt By Night/Immortal Blood/Traveling with the Dead; The Hunger; Fevre Dream; Empire of Fear; Dr. Blood’s Coffin; The Vampire’s Ghost; The Horrible Sexy Vampire; Mark of the Vampire; Vampire (1979); Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Gray; El Hombre Lobo; Curse of the Undead; Circus of Horrors; The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus; Twice Bitten/Vampire Hookers; The Lost Boys; Deathmaster; Velvet Vampire; I, Vampire; Nancy Baker’s Vampire Stories; Sunglasses After Dark; Vamps (Vertigo Comics); Blade; Scooby-Doo; Hellboy; Nocturna; Rosemary’s Baby; American Psycho; Lost Souls; Elvira; Rosemary’s Baby; The Films of Tarantino and Rodriguez; Light at the End; Andy Warhol’s Dracula/Blood for Dracula; Geek Maggot Bingo; Daughter of Darkness; Nightmare in Blood; Madhouse; Vampire Junction/Vanitas; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Shadowman; Werewolf of London; Little Shop of Horrors; Texas Chainsaw Massacre; The Howling; Gremlins; Suckers: Bleeding London Dry; Desire the Vampire/I Desire; The Creature Commandos; The Vampire (1957); The Vampire (Sydney Horler)Non-Horror Crosses: Too numerous to list. The Story: In 1888, during the events of Bram Stoker’s novel, events diverge and Dracula marries Queen Victoria, causing a major alteration in the socio-political world for the next 125 years and beyond.Notes: This is a divergent timeline, but not a parallel universe. In my theory, a parallel universe is created at the dawn of time at the same time as the main universe and other parallel universes. They may evolve similarly, but they are separate. Meanwhile, each universe has a main timeline, and at each moment, there are an infinite number of divergent timelines created off of the main timeline. When thinking of divergent timelines, try picturing a fork in the road. Both paths lead in different directions, but they both start at the same point, and once were the same road. The Anno Dracula timeline has shown to be an alternate timeline of the main Horror Universe in several other entries in this reference guide. Because it’s a divergent timeline, the above horror crosses, though depicted in an alternate manner, should still count for inclusions in the Horror Universe. Some of the above crossed series are already in, and the others are brought in via this crossover series despite being an alternate timeline series. For the record, the complete Anno Dracula series (thus far) consists of Anno Dracula, the Bloody Red Baron: Anno Dracula 1918, Judgement of Tears: Anno Dracula 1959 (aka Dracula Cha Cha Cha), Coppola’s Dracula (from the Mammoth Book of Dracula), Castle in the Desert: Anno Dracula 1977, Andy Warhol’s Dracula: Anno Dracula 1978 - 1979 (from the Mammoth Book of Vampires), Who Dares Wins: Anno Dracula 1980, The Other Side of Midnight (from Vampire Sextette), You are the Wind Beneath My Wings: Anno Dracula 1984) and Johnny Alucard.
BLACULA (FILM)Release Date: August 25, 1972 (Contemporary Setting)Series: BlaculaHorror Crosses: Dracula (novel)The Story: When an African Prince and his bride come to negotiate peace with Dracula at his castle, instead Dracula kills the woman and turns the prince, cursing him to not only become a vampire, but also specifically a black Dracula, or Blacula. He then traps the vampire, who is freed in modern time and begins to terrorize the American urban jungle.Notes: The Dracula of this novel must be Dracula-Prime, simply because he is clearly creating a soul clone. He specifically declares as much as he is cursing Blacula. Blacula also appears in the alternate reality of the Anno Dracula timeline. This film is followed by a 1973 sequel, Scream Blacula Scream. This film has been referenced often in other films and on television. It has also been spoofed in Lust of Blackula, Saturday Night Live, and The Simpsons.
SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM (FILM)Release Date: June 27, 1973 (Contemporary Setting)Series: BlaculaThe Story: When a dying voodoo queen chooses an adopted apprentice as her successor, her jealous son obtains the bones of Blacula and resurrects him to act as his agent of revenge...which immediately backfires on him.Notes: No crossovers in this one, but included for the sake of completeness. As established in the first film, Blacula is a Dracula soul clone, though one of the more strong willed and independent of the bunch. The film is referenced in Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror XVI. It is spoofed in Lust of Blackula.

AUTHOR ROBERT E. WRONSKI, JR. DISCUSSES THE HORROR CROSSOVER ENCYCLOPEDIA WITH THE DEADITES ON TRICK OR TREAT RADIO

I was on Trick or Treat Radio the other night, and here is the archived interview in case you missed it.

As I said on the show, you can find here all the links to everything I talked about on the show.

My interview starts at an hour and 30 minutes into the show if you're only tuning in for that.  However,  I would suggest that the entire show is worth listening to, and you should consider tuning in every week on Wednesdays starting at 9PM.  It's a fun show.  They review horror films (often obscure new films), talk about all sorts of nerdy goodness, have great guests, and have a lot of laughs.

You can visit their main website here, and visit their discussion group here.

Social Media:

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I mentioned the Crossovers Forum, where I posted the poll that decided I would write first about Horror.  You can come participate in that forum here.

The soul clone theory is the creation of Chuck Loridans, and his MONSTAAH group can be found here.

You can purchase the Tales of the Shadowmen series, which we talked about in the interview, here.

Our publisher, 18thWall Productions.

We also brought up Donald F. Glut.  You should follow him here.

You can learn more about the upcoming Cartoon Crossover Encyclopedia here.

We also refer to the works of Philip Jose Farmer, of course.  The main website for the works of Farmer, and his successor Win Scott Eckert, can be found here. 

I will be at In-CON-ceivable and you can learn more about that here.

And you can buy Television Crossover Universe:  Worlds and Mythology Volume I here.

Give feedback at the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia discussion group here.

There is a 17 year plan!  Expect Television Crossover Universe: Worlds and Mythology Volume II tentatively in December.  Expect the Cartoon Crossover Encyclopedia next year.  Expect Horror Crossover Encyclopedia Volume II  in 2019.  You can find all my published books on my Amazon author page here.

Thanks again so much to the Deadites for having me on their show, and I look forward to including your webisode or web comic into Volume II.

El Hombre Lobo

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ANNO DRACULA (SERIES BY KIM NEWMAN)Release Date: 1992 - 2013 (so far) [Setting is 1888 -1991 (so far)]Series: Anno DraculaHorror Crosses: Dracula (novel); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Invisible Man (novel); The Island of Doctor Moreau; The Vampyre; Varney the Vampire; The Soft Whisper of the Dead; They Thirst; Hotel Transylvania; The Black Castle; The Vampire Tapestry; Stephen King Universe; Carmilla; Good Lady Ducayne; The Tomb of Sarah; Ken’s Mystery; The Mysterious Stranger (story); The True Story of a Vampire; Carnacki Ghost Finder; Black Sabbath; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice Vampire Lestat series); The Werewolves of London (Brian Stableford); Count Yorga; The Fearless Vampire Killers; Brides of Dracula; Vampire Circus; Dracula (Universal); Dark Shadows; El Vampiro; Black Sunday; Martin (George A. Romero film); Kolchak the Night Stalker; Blacula; Nosferatu; Kiss of the Vampire; Mr. Vampire; Blood of the Vampire; Daughters of Darkness; Dracula (Hammer); Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; Averoigne; Grave of the Vampire/Seed of Terror; Hellraiser; Alraune; The Black Cat (film); Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural; The Vampire Thrills; Faustine; Near Dark; Forever Knight; Fright Night; The House of Dracula (novel by R. Chetwynd-Hayes); Anak Pontianak; Necroscope; Revelations in Black; The Dragon Waiting; The Bloody Pit of Horror/The Crimson Executioner; The Playgirls and the Vampire; The Niece of the Vampire/Fangs of the Vampire; The Phantom of the Opera; Incense for the Damned/Bloodsuckers; Addams Family (television); Frankenstein (Universal); The Monkey’s Paw; Three Mothers trilogy; Toby Dammit; The Exorcist; Cave of the Living Dead; The Golem (1920 film); The Old Dark House; Cat People; Black Magic (film); Spirits of the Dead; Les Vampires; The Awful Doctor Orloff; A Bucket of Blood; Those Who Hunt By Night/Immortal Blood/Traveling with the Dead; The Hunger; Fevre Dream; Empire of Fear; Dr. Blood’s Coffin; The Vampire’s Ghost; The Horrible Sexy Vampire; Mark of the Vampire; Vampire (1979); Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Gray; El Hombre Lobo; Curse of the Undead; Circus of Horrors; The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus; Twice Bitten/Vampire Hookers; The Lost Boys; Deathmaster; Velvet Vampire; I, Vampire; Nancy Baker’s Vampire Stories; Sunglasses After Dark; Vamps (Vertigo Comics); Blade; Scooby-Doo; Hellboy; Nocturna; Rosemary’s Baby; American Psycho; Lost Souls; Elvira; Rosemary’s Baby; The Films of Tarantino and Rodriguez; Light at the End; Andy Warhol’s Dracula/Blood for Dracula; Geek Maggot Bingo; Daughter of Darkness; Nightmare in Blood; Madhouse; Vampire Junction/Vanitas; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Shadowman; Werewolf of London; Little Shop of Horrors; Texas Chainsaw Massacre; The Howling; Gremlins; Suckers: Bleeding London Dry; Desire the Vampire/I Desire; The Creature Commandos; The Vampire (1957); The Vampire (Sydney Horler)Non-Horror Crosses: Too numerous to list. The Story: In 1888, during the events of Bram Stoker’s novel, events diverge and Dracula marries Queen Victoria, causing a major alteration in the socio-political world for the next 125 years and beyond.Notes: This is a divergent timeline, but not a parallel universe. In my theory, a parallel universe is created at the dawn of time at the same time as the main universe and other parallel universes. They may evolve similarly, but they are separate. Meanwhile, each universe has a main timeline, and at each moment, there are an infinite number of divergent timelines created off of the main timeline. When thinking of divergent timelines, try picturing a fork in the road. Both paths lead in different directions, but they both start at the same point, and once were the same road. The Anno Dracula timeline has shown to be an alternate timeline of the main Horror Universe in several other entries in this reference guide. Because it’s a divergent timeline, the above horror crosses, though depicted in an alternate manner, should still count for inclusions in the Horror Universe. Some of the above crossed series are already in, and the others are brought in via this crossover series despite being an alternate timeline series. For the record, the complete Anno Dracula series (thus far) consists of Anno Dracula, the Bloody Red Baron: Anno Dracula 1918, Judgement of Tears: Anno Dracula 1959 (aka Dracula Cha Cha Cha), Coppola’s Dracula (from the Mammoth Book of Dracula), Castle in the Desert: Anno Dracula 1977, Andy Warhol’s Dracula: Anno Dracula 1978 - 1979 (from the Mammoth Book of Vampires), Who Dares Wins: Anno Dracula 1980, The Other Side of Midnight (from Vampire Sextette), You are the Wind Beneath My Wings: Anno Dracula 1984) and Johnny Alucard.
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CURSE OF THE DEVIL (FILM)Release Date: 1973 (Setting is 1900)Series: El Hombre LoboHorror Crosses: Dracula (Novel)The Story: Waldemar Daminsky finds himself cursed to become a werewolf. Notes: This story references Borgo Pass, invoking Dracula. Elizabeth Bathory is also mentioned. She was a real historical figure, but has been highly fictionalized, and her appearances and fates in the Horror Universe seem quite contrary. However, like most of our great supernatural legends, it’s perfectly fine to meet your demise several times in several different ways and keep popping up again. This film follows Doctor Jekyll y El Hombre Lobo and is followed by Night of the Howling Beast. This film has been referenced in American Gigolo, Ban the Sadist Videos!, and The Angry Video Game Nerd.
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LA MARCA DEL HOMBRE LOBO (FILM)Release Date: 1968 (Contemporary Setting)Series: El Hombre LoboHorror Crosses: Frankenstein (Mexican)The Story: Count Waldemar Daninsky is attacked by a werewolf and develops the curse of lycanthropy and becomes a werewolf himself. He then meets Dr. Janos Mikhelov and his wife. The doctor claims to want to help, but when it turns out the couple are actually vampires, ulterior motives surface.
Notes: The English title of the film is Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror, The Hell’s Creatures: Dracula and the Werewolf, The Nights of Satan, or the Mark of the Wolfman. There is no appearance by any Dracula or Satan, despite some of the English version titles. There is also no Frankenstein in the original version. However, in the English translated version, Daninsky’s attacker said by the narrator to be named Wolfenstein, a descendant of Frankenstein. Since the original version doesn’t name the attacker, there’s no conflict, and we can consider the Wolfenstein bit as added information omitted from the Spanish version. El Hombre Lobo is brought in through a later encounter with the grandson of Doctor Jekyll. This film follows Las Noches del Hombre Lobo and is followed by Assignment Terror. This film has been referenced as fictional in Bikini Drive-In, Bleeder, and Amando de Ossorio: El Ultimo Templario.
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SANTO EN EL TESORO DE DRACULA (FILM)Release Date: 1969 (Contemporary Setting)Series: El Santo; Dracula (Mexican)The Story: The wrestler/adventurer known as El Santo visits his scientist friend who has invented a time machine. The machine accidentally sends the scientist’s daughter back in time where she encounters Dracula. She is rescued, but back in the present, Dracula rises again.Notes: This is the Mexican soul clone who is taking over Mexico. In theory, Dracula has created several soul clones that each have been assigned areas of the world to conquer. This version is brought in through a later cross with El Hombre Lobo. El Santo is a real life Mexican wrestler, but his persona has appeared in a fictional film series, and indeed even his real life identity is pretty fictional.
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DOCTOR JEKYLL Y EL HOMBRE LOBO (FILM)Release Date: 1971 (Contemporary Setting)Series: Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (novel); El Hombre LoboThe Story: Waldemar Daninsky travels to London to find a cure for his lycanthropy from the grandson of Doctor Henry Jekyll, but instead Jekyll turns Daninsky into another Hyde monster.Notes: This connection to the original Jekyll and Hyde novel brings in the Mexican El Hombre Lobo series of films into the Horror Universe. This film follows La Furia del Hombre Lobo and is followed by Curse of the Devil. This film is referenced in Wolfman Chronicles.
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SANTO Y BLUE DEMON CONTRA DRÁCULA Y EL HOMBRE LOBO (FILM)Release Date: 1973 (Contemporary Setting)Series: El Santo; Blue Demon; Dracula (Mexican); El Hombre LoboThe Story: Wrestlers Santo and Blue Demon also moonlight as heroic adventurers, and in this adventure, take on Dracula and his werewolf henchman Rufus Rex.Notes: El Santo and Blue Demon are real life Mexican wrestlers, who have had their own film series. Thus, these are fictional characters. And let’s face it, all wrestlers are fictional characters anyways. This is the Mexican film version of Dracula, who is likely a soul clone of the real Count Dracula. This Hombre Lobo is not the same Daninsky from the El Hombre Lobo series, but this is still part of the same series in my opinion.
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COUNTESS DRACULA’S ORGY OF BLOOD (FILM)Release Date: 2003 (Contemporary Setting)Series: Countess DraculaHorror Crosses: Dracula (novel); The Vampyre; El Hombre Lobo; The Occult Files of Doctor SpektorThe Story: Dracula returns to L.A. and learns that Lord Ruthven and Ruthven’s sister Diana had been staked nearby in 1897, so he sends his daughter Martine and his lackey Renfield to revive them.Notes: Though this is a sequel to the previous Donald F. Glut film, the Countess of this film is actually Martine. The Dracula of this film is the same from the previous, which I suspect is the same Dracula from Stoker’s novel. Lord Ruthven is from the Vampyre. Angel, the vampire from the series of the same name, has claimed that the Vampyre was based on him, which would mean that he was Lord Ruthven. I’m a big fan of that idea, but this film and only this film seems to contradict that. It could be that Angel was making it up. Or it could be that the Ruthven here is not the same chap from the Vampyre. The film credits give thanks to Waldemar Daminsky, who was El Hombre Lobo from that series of films. Spektor is also thanked.

Dark Shadows

A while back, I covered ABC soaps, which existed in a pocket reality unconnected to the TVCU.  One ABC soap I didn't cover, because it wasn't connected to the others, but was indeed connected to the TVCU I said I'd get to later on, and now, it's later on.  And that soap was Dark Shadows.

Wait, what?  Dark Shadows a daytime soap opera?  Yup, that's right.  People don't really think about it now, but Dark Shadows aired during the ABC daytime soap block, in what was a very unusual type of soap.  But yes, Dark Shadows was aimed at bored housewives.  (Hey, Doctor Who was a children's program.)



ANNO DRACULA (SERIES BY KIM NEWMAN)Release Date: 1992 - 2013 (so far) [Setting is 1888 -1991 (so far)]Series: Anno DraculaHorror Crosses: Dracula (novel); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Invisible Man (novel); The Island of Doctor Moreau; The Vampyre; Varney the Vampire; The Soft Whisper of the Dead; They Thirst; Hotel Transylvania; The Black Castle; The Vampire Tapestry; Stephen King Universe; Carmilla; Good Lady Ducayne; The Tomb of Sarah; Ken’s Mystery; The Mysterious Stranger (story); The True Story of a Vampire; Carnacki Ghost Finder; Black Sabbath; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice Vampire Lestat series); The Werewolves of London (Brian Stableford); Count Yorga; The Fearless Vampire Killers; Brides of Dracula; Vampire Circus; Dracula (Universal); Dark Shadows; El Vampiro; Black Sunday; Martin (George A. Romero film); Kolchak the Night Stalker; Blacula; Nosferatu; Kiss of the Vampire; Mr. Vampire; Blood of the Vampire; Daughters of Darkness; Dracula (Hammer); Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; Averoigne; Grave of the Vampire/Seed of Terror; Hellraiser; Alraune; The Black Cat (film); Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural; The Vampire Thrills; Faustine; Near Dark; Forever Knight; Fright Night; The House of Dracula (novel by R. Chetwynd-Hayes); Anak Pontianak; Necroscope; Revelations in Black; The Dragon Waiting; The Bloody Pit of Horror/The Crimson Executioner; The Playgirls and the Vampire; The Niece of the Vampire/Fangs of the Vampire; The Phantom of the Opera; Incense for the Damned/Bloodsuckers; Addams Family (television); Frankenstein (Universal); The Monkey’s Paw; Three Mothers trilogy; Toby Dammit; The Exorcist; Cave of the Living Dead; The Golem (1920 film); The Old Dark House; Cat People; Black Magic (film); Spirits of the Dead; Les Vampires; The Awful Doctor Orloff; A Bucket of Blood; Those Who Hunt By Night/Immortal Blood/Traveling with the Dead; The Hunger; Fevre Dream; Empire of Fear; Dr. Blood’s Coffin; The Vampire’s Ghost; The Horrible Sexy Vampire; Mark of the Vampire; Vampire (1979); Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Gray; El Hombre Lobo; Curse of the Undead; Circus of Horrors; The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus; Twice Bitten/Vampire Hookers; The Lost Boys; Deathmaster; Velvet Vampire; I, Vampire; Nancy Baker’s Vampire Stories; Sunglasses After Dark; Vamps (Vertigo Comics); Blade; Scooby-Doo; Hellboy; Nocturna; Rosemary’s Baby; American Psycho; Lost Souls; Elvira; Rosemary’s Baby; The Films of Tarantino and Rodriguez; Light at the End; Andy Warhol’s Dracula/Blood for Dracula; Geek Maggot Bingo; Daughter of Darkness; Nightmare in Blood; Madhouse; Vampire Junction/Vanitas; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Shadowman; Werewolf of London; Little Shop of Horrors; Texas Chainsaw Massacre; The Howling; Gremlins; Suckers: Bleeding London Dry; Desire the Vampire/I Desire; The Creature Commandos; The Vampire (1957); The Vampire (Sydney Horler)Non-Horror Crosses: Too numerous to list. The Story: In 1888, during the events of Bram Stoker’s novel, events diverge and Dracula marries Queen Victoria, causing a major alteration in the socio-political world for the next 125 years and beyond.
Notes: This is a divergent timeline, but not a parallel universe. In my theory, a parallel universe is created at the dawn of time at the same time as the main universe and other parallel universes. They may evolve similarly, but they are separate. Meanwhile, each universe has a main timeline, and at each moment, there are an infinite number of divergent timelines created off of the main timeline. When thinking of divergent timelines, try picturing a fork in the road. Both paths lead in different directions, but they both start at the same point, and once were the same road. The Anno Dracula timeline has shown to be an alternate timeline of the main Horror Universe in several other entries in this reference guide. Because it’s a divergent timeline, the above horror crosses, though depicted in an alternate manner, should still count for inclusions in the Horror Universe. Some of the above crossed series are already in, and the others are brought in via this crossover series despite being an alternate timeline series. For the record, the complete Anno Dracula series (thus far) consists of Anno Dracula, the Bloody Red Baron: Anno Dracula 1918, Judgement of Tears: Anno Dracula 1959 (aka Dracula Cha Cha Cha), Coppola’s Dracula (from the Mammoth Book of Dracula), Castle in the Desert: Anno Dracula 1977, Andy Warhol’s Dracula: Anno Dracula 1978 - 1979 (from the Mammoth Book of Vampires), Who Dares Wins: Anno Dracula 1980, The Other Side of Midnight (from Vampire Sextette), You are the Wind Beneath My Wings: Anno Dracula 1984) and Johnny Alucard.

PHOENIX RISING (NOVEL BY PIP BALLANTINE AND TEE MORRIS)Release Date: April 26, 2011 (Setting is 1892)Series: Ministry of Peculiar OccurrencesHorror Crosses: Dark ShadowsNon-Horror Crosses: Warehouse 13 (see Notes); 20,000 Leagues Under the SeaThe Story: Agents of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences gather dangerous artifacts and keep them stored in a secret warehouse. Notes: The authors did not intend this to be a crossover with Warehouse 13. But then James Bojaciuk wrote a blog post for the Television Crossover Universe regarding Warehouse 13 where he speculated that the Ministry was Warehouse 12, the previous warehouse that had been in London. Tee Morris came across the blog and commented “Your post popped up in my Google Alert and I have to say both Pip and I were thrilled beyond words at some of these amazing (if not frightening) crossovers you drew between Warehouse 13 and our first novel in this new steampunk series. We won't debunk all your parallels (please speculate, speculate, speculate...)” He then went on to debunk some of Bojaciuk’s claims, but did not debunk the ones listed above, including Warehouse 13. As for the others, Barnabas Collins is one of the noblemen contacted as part of the story’s conspiracy, and one of the agents destroys the Nautilus.

BARNABAS, QUENTIN AND DR. JEKYLL’S SON (NOVEL BY MARILYN ROSS)Release Date: 1971 (Setting is 1908)Series: Dark ShadowsHorror Crosses: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Story: Barnabas Collins meets the son of the infamous Dr. Jekyll, who wants to help find a cure for vampirism.
Notes: This story brings the unusual daytime soap opera Dark Shadows into the Horror Universe.

DARK SHADOWS (TELEVISION SERIES)Release Date: June 27, 1966 - April 2, 1971 (Contemporary Setting with flashbacks and time travel thrown in)Series: Dark ShadowsHorror Crosses: Lovecraft’s Cthulhu MythosThe Story: Soap opera with several dark, supernatural storylines, the most popular involving the vampire Barnabas Collins.
Notes: Starting in the fall of 1969, and running through 1970, there was a storyline involving the Leviathans, an alien snake like race meant to be connected to the Old Ones of the Lovecraft Mythos. This series was followed by two movies: House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows. This series was remade in 1991 as a new series, in 2005 as a TV Movie, and in 2012 as a theater released film. Due to its popularity, it’s been “non-cross” referenced numerous times in film and on television.

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. NUMBER 17 THE HOLLOW CROWN AFFAIR (NOVEL BY DAVID MCDANIEL)Release Date: 1969 (Contemporary Setting)Series: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.Horror Crosses: Dark ShadowsThe Story: A mission brings our favorite agents Solo and Kuryakin to Collinsport, Maine.Notes: Collinsport, Maine is the setting of the dark soap opera Dark Shadows. Sheriff Patterson from the series appears, and on a tree is spotted a carving that reads “Barnabas loves Josette”, likely there since the 1700s. The love story between Barnabas and Josette was a major plotline in Barnabas’ curse as a vampire. Incidentally, if you get nothing else from this book, I hope you’ve at least learned to stay out of Maine.

KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER CHRONICLES “INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE?” (SHORT STORY BY MARK DAWIDZIAK)Release Date: 2005 (Setting is confusing so see notes)Series: Kolchak the Night StalkerHorror Crosses: Dark ShadowsThe Story: Kolchak visit Collinsport Maine where he meets Barnabas Collins and his servant Willie Loomis. Notes: Collins, Loomis, and Collinsport are from Dark Shadows. This story is set shortly after the final episode of Kolchak, which aired on March 28, 1975. And yet the story seems to take place in modern times with cell phones and laptops. It’s comic book and cartoon timeline logic, which doesn’t work for me in regards to the Horror Universe. I could of course place this in some divergent timeline where everything is time delayed by 30 years, but why take out a damn fine crossover like this from the main timeline? So I feel it’s best to include it in the main Horror Universe timeline and just ignore the contemporary references. But I leave it up to each reader to make their own call.

MORE THAN MORTAL (NOVEL BY MICK FARREN)Release Date: August 1, 2001 (Contemporary Setting)Series: Victor RenquistHorror Crosses: Dennis Wheatley’s Duke de Richelieu; Varney the Vampire; Dark Shadows; The VampyreThe Story: Rehnquist travels to England where it seems that the body of Merlin has been uncovered.Notes: There are references to the Duke de Richelieu from Wheatley’s series of novels. Though the Duke de Richelieu was a title applied to many real historical figures, in this instance, the reference is specifically to a horror series. Varney, Barnabas Collins (of Dark Shadows) and Lord Ruthven (of the Vampyre) are mentioned as famed English vampires. Varney is said to have been impaled by a vampire slayer while Ruthven is said to have been captured by the church and burned in the sun. Of course, vampires and other monsters are killed all the time in the Horror Universe, and that never stops them from returning. Barnabas Collins was in fact born and raised in America, but his birth was in 1760, when America was still ruled by the British. Americans born before the American Revolution considered themselves to be British.

BLOOD SCARAB (FILM)Release Date: 2008 (Contemporary Setting)Series: Countess Dracula; Mummy’s KissHorror Crosses: Carmilla; Dark Shadows; Donald F. Glut’s Interconnected Works; The Occult Files of Doctor SpektorThe Story: Dracula has recently married Elizabeth Bathory but perishes when he miscalculates sunrise due to Daylight Savings Time. Bathory enlists Renfield to find her a way for her to become immune to sunlight.Notes: This film is a sequel to both the Countess Dracula and Mummy’s Kiss series of films by Glut. Renfield whines that Dracula should have married a Karnstein (as in Carmilla) or a Collins (referencing Dark Shadows). The Marshall Museum of Ancient History appears, which is a satellite of the Marshall Museum of Natural History from a multitude of Glut stories. A book Renfield researches is translated by Dr. Adam Spektor. Elizabeth Bathory was a real historical figure who is said to have bathed in human blood to maintain her youth. She has become a vampire in fiction, but because she is based on a real person, I don’t count her for crossover purposes.

DARK SHADOWS/VAMPIRELLA # 1 - 5 (DYNAMITE)Release Date: August 1 - December 1, 2012 (Contemporary Setting)Series: Dark Shadows; VampirellaThe Story: Barnabas has returned and encounters Vampi, who has come to Collinsport to pursue a killer.Notes: This is the Barnabas from the original macabre daytime soap and not from any of the reboots/remakes.

DARK SHADOWS: THE DARKEST SHADOW (AUDIO DRAMA)Release Date: June 30, 2014 (Contemporary Setting)Series: Dark ShadowsHorror Crosses: The Picture of Dorian Gray; Confessions of Dorian GrayThe Story: Amanda gets a part playing herself in a movie about the events of the past at Collinsport.Notes: This audio drama is from the folks that brought us the Confessions of Dorian Gray. They have created a story that combines two of their audio series.

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THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

Every Thursday I am posting excerpts from the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia related to a specific television series or film.

ANNO DRACULA (SERIES BY KIM NEWMAN)Release Date: 1992 - 2013 (so far) [Setting is 1888 -1991 (so far)]Series: Anno DraculaHorror Crosses: Dracula (novel); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Invisible Man (novel); The Island of Doctor Moreau; The Vampyre; Varney the Vampire; The Soft Whisper of the Dead; They Thirst; Hotel Transylvania; The Black Castle; The Vampire Tapestry; Stephen King Universe; Carmilla; Good Lady Ducayne; The Tomb of Sarah; Ken’s Mystery; The Mysterious Stranger (story); The True Story of a Vampire; Carnacki Ghost Finder; Black Sabbath; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice Vampire Lestat series); The Werewolves of London (Brian Stableford); Count Yorga; The Fearless Vampire Killers; Brides of Dracula; Vampire Circus; Dracula (Universal); Dark Shadows; El Vampiro; Black Sunday; Martin (George A. Romero film); Kolchak the Night Stalker; Blacula; Nosferatu; Kiss of the Vampire; Mr. Vampire; Blood of the Vampire; Daughters of Darkness; Dracula (Hammer); Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; Averoigne; Grave of the Vampire/Seed of Terror; Hellraiser; Alraune; The Black Cat (film); Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural; The Vampire Thrills; Faustine; Near Dark; Forever Knight; Fright Night; The House of Dracula (novel by R. Chetwynd-Hayes); Anak Pontianak; Necroscope; Revelations in Black; The Dragon Waiting; The Bloody Pit of Horror/The Crimson Executioner; The Playgirls and the Vampire; The Niece of the Vampire/Fangs of the Vampire; The Phantom of the Opera; Incense for the Damned/Bloodsuckers; Addams Family (television); Frankenstein (Universal); The Monkey’s Paw; Three Mothers trilogy; Toby Dammit; The Exorcist; Cave of the Living Dead; The Golem (1920 film); The Old Dark House; Cat People; Black Magic (film); Spirits of the Dead; Les Vampires; The Awful Doctor Orloff; A Bucket of Blood; Those Who Hunt By Night/Immortal Blood/Traveling with the Dead; The Hunger; Fevre Dream; Empire of Fear; Dr. Blood’s Coffin; The Vampire’s Ghost; The Horrible Sexy Vampire; Mark of the Vampire; Vampire (1979); Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Gray; El Hombre Lobo; Curse of the Undead; Circus of Horrors; The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus; Twice Bitten/Vampire Hookers; The Lost Boys; Deathmaster; Velvet Vampire; I, Vampire; Nancy Baker’s Vampire Stories; Sunglasses After Dark; Vamps (Vertigo Comics); Blade; Scooby-Doo; Hellboy; Nocturna; Rosemary’s Baby; American Psycho; Lost Souls; Elvira; Rosemary’s Baby; The Films of Tarantino and Rodriguez; Light at the End; Andy Warhol’s Dracula/Blood for Dracula; Geek Maggot Bingo; Daughter of Darkness; Nightmare in Blood; Madhouse; Vampire Junction/Vanitas; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Shadowman; Werewolf of London; Little Shop of Horrors; Texas Chainsaw Massacre; The Howling; Gremlins; Suckers: Bleeding London Dry; Desire the Vampire/I Desire; The Creature Commandos; The Vampire (1957); The Vampire (Sydney Horler)Non-Horror Crosses: Too numerous to list. The Story: In 1888, during the events of Bram Stoker’s novel, events diverge and Dracula marries Queen Victoria, causing a major alteration in the socio-political world for the next 125 years and beyond.
Notes: This is a divergent timeline, but not a parallel universe. In my theory, a parallel universe is created at the dawn of time at the same time as the main universe and other parallel universes. They may evolve similarly, but they are separate. Meanwhile, each universe has a main timeline, and at each moment, there are an infinite number of divergent timelines created off of the main timeline. When thinking of divergent timelines, try picturing a fork in the road. Both paths lead in different directions, but they both start at the same point, and once were the same road. The Anno Dracula timeline has shown to be an alternate timeline of the main Horror Universe in several other entries in this reference guide. Because it’s a divergent timeline, the above horror crosses, though depicted in an alternate manner, should still count for inclusions in the Horror Universe. Some of the above crossed series are already in, and the others are brought in via this crossover series despite being an alternate timeline series. For the record, the complete Anno Dracula series (thus far) consists of Anno Dracula, the Bloody Red Baron: Anno Dracula 1918, Judgement of Tears: Anno Dracula 1959 (aka Dracula Cha Cha Cha), Coppola’s Dracula (from the Mammoth Book of Dracula), Castle in the Desert: Anno Dracula 1977, Andy Warhol’s Dracula: Anno Dracula 1978 - 1979 (from the Mammoth Book of Vampires), Who Dares Wins: Anno Dracula 1980, The Other Side of Midnight (from Vampire Sextette), You are the Wind Beneath My Wings: Anno Dracula 1984) and Johnny Alucard.
TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN VOLUME 3: DANSE MACABRE “LES LEVRES ROUGES” (SHORT STORY BY WIN SCOTT ECKERT)Release Date: 2007 (Setting is August 1946) Series: Tales of the ShadowmenHorror Crosses: The films of Tarantino and Rodriguez; Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; The Thing; Invisible Man (Universal); Little Shop of Horrors; Daughters of DarknessNon-Horror Crosses: So full of crossoversThe Story: Doc Ardan gathers a team to retrieve the Eye of Oran from the evil Madame Elisabeth.Notes: Again, author uses Red Apple Cigarettes from the films of Quentin Tarantino. The Eye of Oran was last seen in the story of the same name from Tales of the Shadowmen Volume 2, where it was explained to be linked to Dagon and the fish men from Lovecraft’s tales. Doc Ardan is another name for Doc Savage. In this tale, Doc recalls having been involved in the events from “Who Goes There?”, later made into the film The Thing. Doc’s involvement in that story comes from Philip Jose Farmer’s Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life. Madame Elizabeth owns a chain of brothels, with its headquarters on the site of the events of the film Invisible Ray. Even though Invisible Ray has no actual connection to the Universal Invisible Man series, I consider it part of a series of loosely connected Universal “invisible” film series. In this story,the Eye of Oran is used to explain the creation of the Audrey Junior from Little Shop of Horrors. The main villain of this tale is actually Countess Elizabeth Bathory. She was a real historical figure, who often gets portrayed in fiction as a vampire. I don’t count her as a horror cross because of her historical status in reality. However, here I do count that this version of Bathory is the same one from the film Daughters of Darkness.
THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (FILM)Release Date: September 14, 1960 (Contemporary Setting)Series: Little Shop of HorrorsThe Story: A poor loser named Seymour who works for a florist discovers a plant that feeds off of blood. At first, it only needs a few drops, but as it grows, so does its appetite. But the fame that the plant brings to the store (and with it, customers) and the attention Seymour receives from the shop girl Audrey lead him to keep giving in to the plant’s desire for flesh and blood.
Notes: This is the original version of the film, which is played straight, despite the above poster calling it a comedy. It was remade in the 1980s as a musical comedy film and Broadway play, but it’s the original that is in the Horror Universe. The musical remake claims this to be an alien invasion of sorts, but this original version never really offered an explanation. This film has been “non-cross” referenced many times in such films as Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors, Chopping Mall, and Waxwork. It is also spoofed in Please Don’t Eat My Mother, Evil Dead II, and Little Shop of Whores.
CABIN IN THE WOODS (FILM)Release Date: April 13, 2012 (Contemporary Setting)Series: Cabin in the WoodsHorror Crosses: Alien; Half-Life; Evil Dead; Poltergeist; Frankenstein (Universal); Child’s Play; Creature from the Black Lagoon; Corpse Bride; Killer Klowns from Outer Space; Stephen King Universe; Killjoy; Devil’s Rejects; Clownhouse; Drive Thru; Funhouse; Amusement; Circus of Fear; Clown Camp; Demonic Toys; Demons; Night of the Demons; Supernatural; Charmed; Gremlins; Ghoulies; Creeps; Troll; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Frankenstein (novel); Dr. Giggles; The Human Centipede; House on Haunted Hill; The Dead Pit; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; The Strangers; Underworld; Attack of the 50 Foot Woman; Troll Hunter; Anaconda; Python; Mega Snake; Snakes on a Plane; Resident Evil; Hellraiser; Cannibal Holocaust; Creepshow; Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Attack of the Jack-O-Lanterns; Pumpkinhead; Frankenfish; The Mummy! Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century; The Mummy (Universal); The Hills Have Eyes; Wrong Turn; Chernobyl Diaries; 28 Days Later; Signal; the Works of Quentin Tarantino; Left 4 Dead; Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; Re-Animator (film); Siren; The Exorcist; The Exorcism of Emily Rose; Reptillicus; Jurassic Park; Abomidible Bigfoot; The Legend of Boggy Creek; Ape Canyon; Curse of Bigfoot; Night of the Bloody Apes; Wendigo; Night Beasts; Night of the Scarecrow; Scarecrows; Husk; Scarecrow Gone Wild; The Scarecrows Walk at Midnight; The Town that Dreaded Sundown; The Craft; Witches of Eastwick; Hocus Pocus; Jack Frost; Hellboy (film); Rumplestilskin; Lephrechaun; Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters; Gingerbread Man; The Vampyre; Dracula (novel); Nosferatu; The Wolf Man; An American Werewolf in London; The Howling; Wolf; Texas Chainsaw Massacre; Friday the 13th; Night of the Living Dead; Return of the Living Dead; F.E.A.R.; The Blob; Feast; Horrors of the Wendigo; Frostbiter; Ghost; Bram Stoker’s Dracula (film); The Cyclops; Cyclops Giant; Nightbreed; Leeches!; Attack of the Giant Leeches; Rows of Teeth; The Birds; Killing Birds; Birdemic: Shock and Terror; Silent Hill; Attack of the Killer Lane Gnomes; Alligator; Lake Placid; Them!; Legion of Fire: Killer Ants!; Ants; Empire of the Ants; King Kong; Centipede Horror; The Giant Claw; The Ring; Attack of the Giant Gila Monster; The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms; Tarantula; Eight Legged Freaks; Jaws; Frogs; Lord of Darkness; House of the Dead; The Grudge; Chopping Mall; BlinkyTM; The Kraken; Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep; Octopus; The Beast; Deep Rising; It Came From Beneath the Sea; Tentacles; Eye of the Beast; Mega Shark; Giant Octopus; Castle Freak; Tokyo Gore Police; Septic; Mutants; Ogre; Blood Pool; Legend of the Ogre; Killing Floor; Little Shop of Horrors; The Breed; Hatchet; Phantasm; See No Evil; Thinner; Monster House; Attila; Dead Snow; Frankenstein’s Army; Manhunt; The Monster in the Closet; Killer Eyes; Demomata; CSP-682; Parasite Eve 2; Dead Space; Night of the Lepus; Creature from the Haunted Sea; Tremors; Hostel; The Collection; The Butcher; Dead Rising; My Bloody Valentine; The Exterminator; Willard; War of the Worlds; Signs; Lollipop Chainsaw; Ghost Ship; Curse of the Pirates; Jolly Roger; Lead Soldiers; Vampire Vikings; The Witch; Blair Witch Project; The Village; The Thing; Vampire Breath; Goosebumps; Angel; King CobraNon-Horror Crosses: Harry Potter; Wizard of Oz; Great Expectations; Batman; Labyrinth; Land of the Giants; The Wrath of Paul Bunyan; Dreamscape; Last of the Mohicans; Blood Meridian; Scalps; Savage Sam; Sin City; Kevin Spencer; We Need to Talk About Kevin; Jacob’s Ladder; Doctor Who; Black Swan; Pan’s Labyrinth; Nutcracker; Blade Hunter; The Chronicles of Narnia; Time Bandits; The Princess and the Frog; Pirates of the Caribbean; Futurama; The Incredible Shrinking Man; Pee-Wee’s Playhouse; Red Planet; Terminator; Zathura; Hardware; Robot Wars; Bacterial Contamination; Firefly; Clash of the Titans; Team Fortress; Man from Planet X; Starship Troopers; Silence of the Lambs/Hannibal; Twisted MetalThe Story: A group of teens head out for a weekend in a cabin in the woods, not knowing that they have been chosen as sacrifices to an ancient deity in order to save the world from his wrath.Notes: This film exposes the secret truth behind modern horror. Behind it all is a secret organization, chosen to sacrifice youth to ancient gods. All of the above named crossovers have been linked in this film, and revealed to be part of this secret conspiracy. Most of the crossovers above come from the monsters and artifacts contained in the facility. While some of the monsters and artifacts are clearly from certain films above, many are based on certain types of horror films, in which case I included the more well-known of these film types. I recommend the well-researched Cabin in the Woods Wiki for a more detailed listing of the monsters and their inspirations. Note that I included in the above crossovers some monsters that only appeared in the official novelization and the official Universal Theme Park attraction tie-in. With this film, I break one of my major rules of crossover connecting. Though some of the crosses are direct crosses, like Evil Dead and Left 4 Dead, most of them are only connected because the films represent the more well-known films of the trope from which a certain monster comes. Normally, I would not count something that is “like something from”, but there is dialogue within the film that makes me break my rule. In one scene, referring to the monsters, security officer Daniel Truman says “They’re like something from a nightmare.” Lin, a head scientist, responds, “No, they’re something nightmares are from.” She goes on to explain that these monsters are the creations of the Ancient Ones, having been around since the beginning, and different cultures have told stories that interpret them in different ways. Thus, in the instance of this film, “like” is enough because of the author’s intent. And thus my love/hate relationship with Joss Whedon, for expanding the Horror Universe dramatically but making me do a lot of work to write this entry. Note that this film ends with the start of an apocalypse, so the end must veer into a divergent timeline. We must presume in the main Horror Universe, the virgin shot the fool. And if you haven’t seen the movie, that last sentence probably seems very bizarre. This film has been referenced as fictional in South Park, The Cinema Snob, Scary Movie 5, and Doc of the Dead. It is also paid homage to in Red Dawn when Chris Hemsworth and his friends once more wind up in a cabin in the woods. The film has also been spoofed in Robot Chicken and Scary Movie 5.

This Island Earth

Every Thursday I will be posting excerpts from the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia that is related to film or television.  Today's focus is on This Island Earth, a 1950s film that is more sci-fi than horror, but is considered a horror series by me because it introduces the Metaluna Mutant, who is considered by Scary Monsters Magazine as one of the classic Universal Monsters, and is featured in their Monster Kombat series.

This Island Earth has been linked often in crossovers because of the Metaluna Mutant, and because of an alien communication device called the interociter.

SCARY MONSTERS MAGAZINE # 51 “THE METALUNA MUTANT VS. THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON” (DENNIS DRUKTENIS PUBLISHING)Release Date: June 2004 (Setting is 1953)Series: This Island Earth; Creature from the Black LagoonThe Story: The mutant creature from the planet Metaluna comes to Earth and arrives in the Amazon where he fights the Gill-Man.
Notes:The Metaluna Mutant is from This Island Earth. The Gill-Man is the Creature from the Black Lagoon. The Gill Man is brought in along with most Universal horror by Return of the Wolf Man. This story brings in the 50s horror/sci-fi film This Island Earth. ‘nuff said.
THIS ISLAND EARTH (FILM)Release Date: June 1, 1955 (Contemporary Setting)Series: This Island EarthHorror Crosses: Mihmiverse; The Works of Robert RankinNon-Horror Crosses: Doctor Who; UHF; Borderlands; Mystery Science Theater 3000; ReBoot; Looney Tunes; A Great Moon Hoax; ArenaThe Story: Aliens from Metaluna are abducting scientists to aid in their battle against another world.
Notes: As with most public alien invasions or giant monster attacks, the government and private concerns are able to cover up the events. It helps that in the Horror Universe, people seem almost intentionally oblivious in the face of anything beyond their normal expectations of their world. This is more of a sci-fi film, but the Metaluna Mutant from this film was considered to be part of the Universal monsters combat series in Scary Monsters Magazine. In fact, it was that series that brought this film in. Though this is a Universal film, I still consider the Gill-Man to be the last of the famous Universal Monsters to be introduced. The Metaluna Mutant isn’t so famous, though this is still a fun film if you’re into 1950s sci-fi films. This film (and the written story it was based on) also introduces the interocitor (sometimes spelled interositer). It is an alien communication device that will appear again in Doctor Who, UHF, Borderlands 2, Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, ReBoot, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, A Great Moon Hoax or, A Princess of Mars, Arena, Attack of the Moon Zombies, The Suburban Book of the Dead (Armageddon III: The Remake), and others. Later on, I will explain more about Doctor Who in the Horror Universe. UHF is a comedy that can still fit realistically in the Horror Universe. Borderlands is a game series that takes place on another planet. Mystery Science Theater takes place in the not too distant future of one possible alternate future. ReBoot takes place within a video game reality that is attached to the Horror Universe. See the entry on Looney Tunes: Back in Action for how I explain the Looney Tunes characters in the Horror Universe. Looney Tunes: Back in Action also has the Metaluna Mutant. A Great Moon Hoax is a short humorous sci-fi story by Ben Bova. Arena takes place in space in one possible future timeline. Attack of the Moon Zombies is part of a series of 1950s B style movies that are part of Christopher R. Mihm’s Mihmiverse, and now the Horror Universe as well. Robert Rankin is an author who uses the device in many of his works, including The Suburban Book of the Dead. Since the device is a recurring item in his works, it brings in all of his works. This film has been referenced and spoofed many times in other films and television.
LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION (FILM)Release Date: November 9, 2003 (Contemporary Setting)Series: Looney TunesHorror Crosses: Scooby-Doo! (See Notes); This Island Earth; Fiend without a FaceNon-Horror Crosses: Doctor Who (Peter Cushing); Forbidden Planet; Robert the Robot; The Jack Benny ProgramThe Story: When Daffy demands his own movie, he’s fired by Warner Bros. Daffy ends up causing a security guard to be fired also, and follows him home to make amends. The fired guard is the son of a famous action star who turns out to be a real secret agent, and the guard and Daffy get involved in a mission. Meanwhile, Bugs refuses to work unless Daffy is hired back, so he and the vice president of comedy head out to find Daffy.Notes: First, let me apologize to serious horror fans. However, the appearance of the Metaluna Mutant brings this film into the Horror Universe. The hard part for me was to explain how it could fit. Luckily, I have great friends who brought to my attention the film Evil Toons. Though some cartoon animals have been explained away as experiments of Doctor Moreau, in the case of this film, the Looney Tunes characters are clearly cartoons, but ones living in the “real world”, working for Warner Bros. and elsewhere in the world. In Evil Toons, which is in the Horror Universe due to the crossover relevant to this entry, the Necronomicon ex Mortis (from Evil Dead) is used to bring cartoon characters to life, in order to serve the spell caster. Warner Bros. must have performed such a spell to bring their creations to life to serve as actors (because it’s easier?) I presume the fact that people don’t freak out when encountering living cartoons is an effect of the spell as well. It should be noted that likely all fully animated Looney Tunes cartoons are fictional within the Horror Universe, but these living cartoons take on the characteristics and memories of the fictional characters they resemble. Scooby-Doo and Shaggy appear, as animated characters at the Warner Bros. cafeteria, complaining about their portrayal in the live action films. This can’t be the same Scooby and Shaggy from the 1970s and 1980s cartoons. Those cartoons feature a real person and dog (albeit a talking dog). In the 1980s, there was an animated movie called Scooby-Doo Goes Hollywood. Since the 1980s films are in the Horror Universe, we can use that film as evidence that Mystery, Incorporated, and particularly Scooby, became famous. Evidently famous enough to have a cartoon and live action film based on them. The cartoon Scooby and Shaggy of this film must be the 21st century series of new Scooby-Doo! animated films, brought to life just as the Looney Tunes figures were. Based on that, we must assume those 21st century animated films, as well as the live action films they were complaining about, must be fictional within the Horror Universe. In one scene that takes place in a lab, the film’s heroes encounter the Metaluna Mutant, a pair of Daleks, Robbie the Robot, the Fiend without a Face and Robert the Robot. The Metaluna Mutant is the basis for this film’s inclusion in this guide and within the Horror Universe. The Metaluna Mutant is from This Island Earth. Though the film is more sci-fi than horror, the Metaluna Mutant was included in Scary Monsters Magazine’s Universal Kombat Series, thus placing him among the ranks of the classic Universal Monsters. The Daleks are an alien race that are enemies of the Doctor from Doctor Who, but these specific Daleks were an enemy of the Doctor’s alternate universe counterpart, Doctor Who, played by Peter Cushing. Robbie the Robot is from Forbidden Planet, which takes place in the future, but as seen in Gremlins, he seems to get around through time and space. The Fiend without a Face is the creature from the film of the same name. Robert the Robot was a toy of the 1950s, though the version here is life size, as the toy was meant to be imagined as, thus this is a crossover with the fictional world that the toy lived in. Finally, the car used in the film by the security guard and Daffy is the same talking car (voiced by Mel Blanc from archived footage) from the Jack Benny Program, thus bringing that television program of classic TV into the Horror Universe.

Television Crossover Universe Spin-Off Books

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In-Con-Ceivable 2015

TVCU Crew members Robert E. Wronski, Jr. and "Crazy" Ivan Ronald Schablotski will be attending In-Con-Ceibable 2015 at the Clarion Hotel in Northampton, MA August 28 - 30.

Robert will be working at the registration desk all three days, and though he won't be selling at the event, if you bring a copy of the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia to the event, he will gladly sign your copy for you.  (For free, of course.)

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