Isegoria

The canonical Igor of pop-culture — Dr. Frankenstein’s hunchbacked assistant — does not exist in the original novel and isn’t named Igor in the movie.

Horror sci-fi classic Alien was originally going to involve gremlins on a B-17 bomber.

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds is George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead — but with birds instead of zombies.

I still love Calvin’s Snowman House of Horror.

I don’t recommend Frankenstein, either the novel or the film, but do note that the two are very, very different.

If you’re looking for Halloween reading, I might recommend The Circus of Dr. Lao — but pass on the movie adaptation, Seven Faces of Dr. Lao.

If you want to read some good, classic, ghost stories — for Halloween, or for Christmas, which was the tradition when he wrote them — I recommend M.R. James’ Collected Ghost Stories.

The Castle of Otranto is arguably the first gothic novel. It is also terrible.

Lovecraft’s influence has been wide, but superficial. Perhaps because his works were, in some ways, reactionary.

I recommend reading Robert E. Howard’s horror classic, Pigeons From Hell — but not the updated graphic novel.