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Poster for the 1931 film Frankenstein featuring Boris Karloff as the monster, with dramatic portraits of Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, and John Boles, and the tagline The Man Who Made a Monster. Dracula Boris Karloff as Imhotep stands over Zita Johann lying in a sarcophagus in a scene from the 1932 film The Mummy, with Egyptian statues and wall art in the background. Lon Chaney, Jr., as a werewolf in The Wolf Man (1941). A human brain preserved in formalin, displayed in a clear glass jar labeled Homo, showing detailed surface folds and anatomy. Colin Clive and Dwight Frye operate laboratory equipment beside the bandaged monster, played by Boris Karloff, lying on a table in a scene from Frankenstein (1931). white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) Lock Martin and Michael Rennie in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Italian movie poster for The War of the Worlds shows alien spacecraft attacking a city with beams of light, explosions, and fleeing people, with the title La Guerra dei Mondi in bold red and yellow letters. Poster for Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
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Frankenstein
Promotional poster for Frankenstein (1931), directed by James Whale.
© 1931 Universal Pictures Company, Inc.; photograph from a private collection
Dracula
Bela Lugosi with Frances Dade in Dracula (1931).
© John Kobal Foundation— Moviepix/Getty Images
Boris Karloff and Zita Johann in The Mummy (1932), directed by Karl Freund.
© 1932 Universal Pictures Company, Inc.; photograph from a private collection
Lon Chaney, Jr., as a werewolf in The Wolf Man (1941).
Courtesy of Universal Pictures; photograph, Lincoln Center Library of the Performing Arts, New York Public Library
human brain in formalin
Human brain preserved in formalin.
© Baloncici/Shutterstock.com
James Whale: Frankenstein
Colin Clive (left) and Dwight Frye in the film Frankenstein (1931), directed...
© 1931 Universal Pictures Company, Inc.; photograph from a private collection
white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
Some individual white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) may travel far out...
© jagronick/Fotolia
Lock Martin and Michael Rennie in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Gort (left) and Klaatu, played by Lock Martin and Michael Rennie, respectively, in...
©Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved
The War of the Worlds poster
Poster for the Italian release of the motion picture The War of the Worlds,...
From a private collection
Poster for Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Movie poster for Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956), which was the American...
Hershenson-Allen Archive
A Christmas Carol
The ghost of Jacob Marley (right) paying a visit to his former business partner,...
© Photos.com/Thinkstock
Michael Pacher: The Devil Presenting St. Augustine with the Book of Vices
The Devil Presenting St. Augustine with the Book of Vices, oil on wood by...
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