I just finished reading Thomas Mallory's excellent book, Universal Studios Monsters: A Legacy of Horror. It's a comprehensive overview, featuring many stills and behind-the-scenes photographs I haven't seen before. I recommend it to everyone in the group who hasn't read it already. It's well-written and quite witty, but nitpicker that I am, I found one small error in the text. It's the passage in the chapter on Dracula (1931). "Lucy seems fascinated by Dracula, who makes her his first English victim." Actually his first English victim was the flower girl Dracula meets when first strolling the foggy streets of London at night. Remember when he bites her on the neck? So Lucy wasn't the first.
Someone has suggested to me that Dracula's first English victim might well be the captain of the Vesta, the ship that takes Dracula from Transylvania to London. For that matter, Renfield, the English real estate agent who meets Dracula in his castle at the beginning of the film, might well be his first English victim. But I assume Mallory was referring to Dracula's first victim on English soil.
Other than that, the book struck me as highly reliable, and a great pleasure to read. By all means, get a copy.
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