Showing posts with label Graf Orlok. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Graf Orlok. Show all posts

Friday, April 19, 2024

Crossover Cover: A Matter of Death and Life

 

Are you a fan of German Expressionist cinema?

Then you'll love this entry in Simon R. Green's Gideon Sable series, which has references to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Nosferatu, among other crossovers!

For more information, be sure to check out my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, coming this summer from Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Crossover Cover: Kolchak: The Night Stalker - 50th Anniversary

 

Are you a fan of the TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker?

Then you'll love this anthology graphic novel, which has stories that tie in with Frankenstein, The X-Files, Richard Matheson's Hell House, Dracula, The Munsters, and Nosferatu!

For more information, be sure to pick up a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Crossover Covers: Two Red Eyes

The ancient vampire “Nosferatu” travels to Los Angeles and picks a fight with monster-hunting P.I. Cal McDonald. “Nosferatu” is clearly Graf Orlok, the vampire from F.W. Murnau’s film Nosferatu, ein Symphonie des Grauens.

Friday, July 11, 2014

Crossover Covers: Hell on Earth

In this storyline, the Parliament of Demons seeks to give Dracula the power belonging to the god Chaos. The Parliament allows Dracula to use its forces to attack Earth. In response to this, the Conjuress sends her agents, including Vampirella and Pantha, to battle Dracula and company. For the most part, I have followed Win's example by only listing a few stories where Vampirella meets Dracula, since there have been several over the years. However, there is another crossover in this story. One of the Parliament's agents is a vampire named Orlok. Based on his name and physical appearance, he is clearly Graf Orlok from F.W. Murnau's silent horror film Nosferatu, which was loosely based on Bram Stoker's Dracula. Obviously, Orlok must have been resurrected after his death at the hands of Eva in the miniseries The Darkness vs. Eva: Daughter of Dracula. Eva first appeared in "Ash vs. the Monsters," a storyline from the Army of Darkness comic book that also featured her father. However, in both the miniseries Prophecy and Vampirella Halloween Special 2013, she meets the same version of Dracula that Vampi regularly battles, and he apparently doesn't recognize her. Presumably, the Dracula that appeared in "Ash vs. the Monsters" is a different "soul-clone" of the real Dracula than Vampi's foe.