Jolly Sci

Heat up beakers, form theories, twist dials
Pour unspeakable serums in vials
When you're not in your lab
You feel rotten, life's drab
Science geek, when you're here you're all smiles.

Hunchbacked Nina assists Dr. Edelmann: Jane "Poni" Adams and Onslow Stevens in House of Dracula (Erle C. Kenton; 1945).

Three Weirdos and a Funeral

One has bolts, one a cloak, one a pelt
With no soul, in the sun one will melt
One's a killer when lupine
But whom silver sends supine
The big dolt burns to smoke where he dwelt.

David Cairns

Dracula, the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's Monster all crowd into House of Dracula (Erle C. Kenton, 1945).

Quietus Riotous

For this giant, no final repose
He can't die, but he goes through the throes
Though more corpse than alive,
He, of course, will survive
When revived for declining freak-shows.

The Monster (Glenn Strange) finally rises, taking on the law in House of Dracula (Erle C. Kenton; 1945). With Lionel Atwill (right).

Unlucky Stiff

Though the doctor who aids him's a ranter,
The big blockhead can't trade snappy banter
With a brain clearly rotted
It's quite plain that he's potted
And no shock he's displayed like a planter.

Dr. Edelmann directs the Monster: Glenn Strange and Onslow Stevens in House of Dracula (Erle C. Kenton; 1945).

Homicidal Roomers

It's a house that is deeply unsound
In it louses and creeps run around
They are guests, odd, assorted
But would would best be aborted
By its Faustian keeper, white-gowned.

David Cairns

Dr. Edelmann (Onslow Stevens) waves a cross at a top-hatted Count Dracula (John Carradine) in House of Dracula (Erle C. Kenton; 1945). With Martha O'Driscoll, Jane "Poni" Adams, and Lon Chaney Jr, still in a bathrobe.

Multiple Organisms

Vampire John is out seeking some gore
Wolf Man Lon gives a shriek and a roar
Monster Glenn seems to freeze
On unbendable knees
It's been argued that less equals more.

David Cairns

John Carradine is Count Latos, aka Dracula, Lon Chaney Jr is the Wolf Man, and Glenn Strange is the immobile Monster: House of Dracula (Erle C. Kenton; 1945).

Fuzzkill

One officious inspector named Holtz
A suspicious collection of dolts
Add goons awful and sly
And soon lawman will fry
Through pernicious subjection to volts.



Above: Dr.Edelmann (Onslow Stevens) pushes Inspector Holtz (Lionel Atwill) into the lab equipment. Top: Inspector Holtz (Lionel Atwill) and Steinmuhl (Skelton Knaggs). House of Dracula (Erle C. Kenton; 1945). Fuzzy David Cairns coined the title.

Full House of Dracula

Now the monsters are forming a throng
Our response? "It's abnormal and wrong!"
With the fanged and the hairy
And the banged-up and scary
Says Herr Hans, "Next they'll warm up King Kong!"

David Cairns

Led by the suspicious Steinmuhl, a crowd of curious villagers gathers in House of Dracula (Erle C. Kenton; 1945). Steinmuhl is played by a character actor with the magical moniker Skelton Knaggs.

Sparks and Recreation

Lightning bolts are released as from Zeus
Sending jolts, he increases the juice
The doc cackles because,
With a crackle and buzz,
A big dolt, once deceased, is set loose.          



Doc Edelmann finally charges up the Monster: Onslow Stevens and Glenn Strange in House of Dracula (Erle C. Kenton; 1945).

Bat Influence

Latos molds this physician like putty
Thus controlled, his condition grows nutty
Soon his actions, erratic,
Are off-track Hippocratic
Lo, the road to perdition is rutty.



In House of Dracula (Erle C. Kenton; 1945), the blood of Count Latos, aka Dracula (John Carradine), has an ill-effect on Dr. Edelmann (Onslow Stevens), who tears out the throat of his gardener, Siegfried (Ludwig Stossel).Title by limerick-fluent David Cairns.

Edelmann on Fire

Though he stays in Count Dracula's pad --
Which is crazy -- this doc isn't bad
When his blood was transfused
He grew muddled, confused
Eyes ablaze now, he's cracked and gone mad.

Dr. Edelmann (Onslow Stevens), hits the roof in House of Dracula (Erle C. Kenton; 1945). Title by David Cairns, of the fiery breath.

Dr. Acula

In a vast, ancient manor he's stuck
When a nasty vamp randomly struck
The effects are traumatic
Around necks he's erratic
With this ghastly new fancy to suck.

His blood tainted by that of Dracula, Dr Edelmann (Onslow Stevens) gets the monster lighting in House of Dracula (1945). Title by David Cairns, Doctor of Entitlement.

Suction Chump

Now quite supine to tabletop strapped
Of the lupine he's ably sapped
But the full of the moon
Has a pull on this goon
His blood group makes his grey cells adapt.

David Cairns

Milizia (Martha O'Driscoll, left) and hunchbacked Nina (Jane "Poni" Adams, right) assist Dr. Edelmann (Onslow Stevens) in an operation on lycanthropic Lawrence Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr): House of Dracula (Erle C. Kenton; 1945).