The old Universal Monster movies in general and the Frankenstein series in particular are justifiably the most famous of their kind. This book tells the whole story from beginning to end of the movies that would introduce the concept of a "Shared Universe" to Hollywood. These films brought notoriety to Boris Karloff, gave Basil Rathbone one of his three most important non Sherlock Holmes roles and Bela Lugosi one of his all time best on the two occasions he played Igor!