Television Crossover Universe

 Well, it's the 12th anniversary of the TVCU. Some years back, I did a TVCU Quickie on Sleepy Hollow.  There I said that the TV series wasn't in the TVCU.  Evidence since then has pointed that it is, but so is the original, very different story.  And so, there must be more than one Ichabod Crane and Katrina.  We already know there's more than one Headless Menace, or Ghost, as we've seen Headless Riders on motorcycles in the modern day.   THE SKETCHBOOK OF GEOFFREY CRAYON “THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW” (SHORT STORY BY WASHINGTON IRVING) Release Date: 1820 (Setting is 1790) Series: Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Story: Schoolmaster Ichabod Crane competes with bullyish Abraham Van Brunt for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel. Abraham constantly plays pranks on Ichabod to make him look bad. Ichabod is very superstitious, and at one particular party, Abraham takes advantage of this to relate many of the local ghost stories, including one of a Hessian soldier whose ...

Every Thursday, I will be covering a series featured in the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia, that has a connection to television or film.  Today, we will be covering the Wolf Man! The methodology of the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia and the Horror Universe Connecting the Dots The Horror Universe exists on the premise that many horror and non-horror series coexist within the same shared reality because of valid crossover connections. A series can only be brought in by being connected to something already in. But to do so, I had to start with a center. For this project, I chose Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein both because of the large number of crosses, and also for sentimental reasons, as it was the first horror cross I really noticed as a child. So with that film being the center, the dot connecting begins. Since that film is in automatically, anything that crosses with the horror series involved in that film (Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf Man, and Invisible Man of the U...