Thursday, February 09, 2006

Return of the Monsters

I'm looking forward to DH Press's series of novels based on Universal monsters. I hope I'm not disappointed. Anytime someone new messes around with characters this beloved, a certain amount of cynicism is called for. But... beloved they are and I can't resist seeing what Dark Horse's writers come up with.

The first one is a Dracula sequel sub-titled Asylum, out March 8th. There've been enough other Dracula sequels, prequels, and alternate versions that yet another isn't that exciting. I've still got The Historian sitting unread, for crying out loud.

The next in the series, The Wolf Man: Hunter's Moon (released April 12th) sounds more unique. I loved Lon Chaney, Jr. as Lawrence Talbot and have always thought that the character deserved a sequel about just him and his relationship with his dad instead of sending him rushing headlong to meet Frankenstein's monster. I doubt that this will be that story, but I'll be reading in hopes that dear old Claude Rains at least makes an appearance.

Creature from the Black Lagoon: Time's Black Lagoon (coming June 7th) is the one I'm most nervous about. It's based on one of my favorite movies of any genre and they've set it in the future. I guess you could argue that Creature is a science fiction movie, but I've always enjoyed it as an adventure. I'd rather DH Press have hired someone like F. Paul Wilson to write it. Someone who knows how to combine adventure and horror. Still, curiosity demands that I give it a lookie.

There's not much information about Frankenstein: The Shadow of Frankenstein or the Bride of Frankenstein and Mummy novels that are in the pipeline, but I reckon I can look forward to them with the same mixture of nervousness and excitement that I hold for the others.

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