Universal history, the grand project of a single overarching story of the past, appealed both to my curiosity and to an untutored conviction that the past had to be a story full of meaning. As I ...

Six years after Werewolf of London, Universal's werewolf as we know him would arrive in The Wolf Man, directed by George Waggner and written by Curt Siodmak. Starring Lon Chaney Jr. as Lawrence "Larry ...