Television Crossover Universe

“I cannot pontificate about it, but by the time I'm done, I will have done one movie, and it's all the movies I want…They're [all] tonally different, and yes, of course you can like one more than the other—the other one may seem banal or whatever it is that you don't like. But it really is part of the same movie. You make one movie.” ~Guillermo del Toro, Twitch Film , January 15, 2013   Guillermo del Toro has been very open about this. All of his stories are not only connected, but are scenes in a single, long movie. Characters, plot-lines, and props run between these scenes, establishing the outline of the story. This article is only a guide for you to see the connective tissue. Movies del Toro produced, but did not direct, are virtually excluded from this list. Only one connects into del Toro’s universe. The rest are irrelevant, and evidently not considered part of his overall story.   We will not be discussing sequels, spin-offs, or tie-in media pr...

So yesterday, I was working on a post about Guillermo del Toro.  I left it unfinished.  Today, our James Bojaciuk informed me he's already working on a del Toro project.  So I'm leaving that draft unfinished, and allowing him to pick from it what he wishes to incorporate into his own project and discard the rest.  But since I'm already on del Toro, and since I am overdue for posting a Horror Crossover Encyclopedia related promotional post, I'm covering Hellboy instead, which, as you'll read, has it's own connections to del Toro. Though I usually only cover film and television series in these HCE promotional posts, here, I'm going to discuss Hellboy of print and screen. ANNO DRACULA (SERIES BY KIM NEWMAN) Release Date: 1992 - 2013 (so far) [Setting is 1888 -1991 (so far)] Series: Anno Dracula Horror Crosses: Dracula (novel); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Invisible Man (novel); The Island of Doctor Moreau; The Vampyre; Varney the Vampire; The Soft ...