Television Crossover Universe

Another chronology following the crossover connections to a play.  This is the first one unrelated to Shakespeare. From the source material: FIRST MARQUIS : Who is this Cyrano? CUIGY : A fellow well skilled in all tricks of fence. SECOND MARQUIS : Is he of noble birth? CUIGY : Ay, noble enough. He is a cadet in the Guards. But 'tis his friend Le Bret, yonder, who can best tell you. Le Bret! Seek you for De Bergerac? LE BRET : Ay, I am uneasy. . . CUIGY : Is it not true that he is the strangest of men? LE BRET : True, that he is the choicest of earthly beings! RAGUENEAU : Poet! CUIGY : Soldier! BRISSAILLE : Philosopher! LE BRET : Musician! LIGNIERE : And of how fantastic a presence! RAGENEAU : Marry, 'twould puzzle even our grim painter Philippe de Champaigne to portray him! Methinks, whimsical, wild, comical as he is, only Jacques Callot, now dead and gone, had succeeded better, and had made of him the maddest fighter of all his visored crew--with his triple-pl...

The previous post, Hammer Horror: Dracula, was originally going to cover all the Hammer films included in the Horror Universe. However, as I was reviewing my book and dong the research, I realized that most of the Hammer Horror in the Horror Universe is from the Dracula series, and the few other unconnected films included were mostly in through Anno Dracula. But as I was doing that research, I also started looking at Horror Express, the film that seems like it should be a Hammer film, even though it's not. So normally I only do one blog post on Thursdays related to a television series or film that is linked to the Horror Universe in the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia, but this Thursday, here's a bonus post. HORROR EXPRESS (FILM) Release Date: 1973 (Setting is 1906) Series: Horror Express The Story: A British anthropologist transports his find, which he believes to be the missing link, via the Trans-Siberian Express from China to Moscow, but as the ...