Television Crossover Universe

" Macbeth The  Prince of Cumberland ! That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see." — Macbeth , Act I, Scene IV The TVCU most typically covers subjects regarding television and film series.  Occasionally, we have covered radio series.  Recently I expanded our range to cover the stage play A Streetcar Named Desire under the basis that it is still a story written for actors to perform.  And under that basis, I'm going really old school with this one.  Get ready to relive high school English, the TVCU way, as today we explore the crossovers around William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Probably around the 11th Century--LADY MACBETH OF THE MTSENSK--The same events from Macbeth, told from Lady Macbeth's perspective. Probably around the 11th Century--SHERLOCK HOLME...

Updated to incorporate material from the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia. This is another in a series of blogs I will do in covering legendary figures whose place in history has become a merging of fact and fiction. Of course in this case, the fiction is the fact in at least the case of the TVCU appearances. c. 1279 B.C.--HERCULES: THE LEGENDARY JOURNEYS--Merlin sends Arthur back in time to learn and train from Hercules. TIGERS OF THE SEA “THE TEMPLE OF ABOMINATION” (STORY BY ROBERT E. HOWARD AND RICHARD L. TIERNEY) Release Date: 1975 (Setting is the late 480s A.D.) Series: Cormac Mac Art Horror Crosses: Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos Non-Horror Crosses: Kull; King Arthur The Story: Cormac Mac Art battles an evil druid and the last of the Serpent Men. Notes: The druid’s magic is tied to the Lovecraftian Mythos. The Serpent Men originate from the first Kull story. Though King Arthur was real, he likely has a Horror Universe counterpart whose canon should only be those ...