Television Crossover Universe

Every Thursday I am posting excerpts from the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia focusing on a television or film series.  Today we are covering Cat People. 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 Whisper of the Dead; They Thirst; Hotel Transylvania; The Black Castle; The Vampire Tapestry; Stephen King Universe; Carmilla; Good Lady Ducayne; The Tomb of Sarah; Ken’s Mystery; The Mysterious Stranger (story); The True Story of a Vampire; Carnacki Ghost Finder; Black Sabbath; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice Vampire Lestat series); The Werewolves of London (Brian Stableford); Count Yorga; The Fearless Vampire Killers; Brides of Dracula; Vampire Circus; Dracula (Universal); Dark Shadows; El Vampiro; Black Sunday; Martin...

Great review of the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia at 35 minutes in.   I’m going to be interviewed soon on Trick or Treat Radio. I will let you all know when the date and time are set.

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...