Portal:Horror/Did you know archive/May 2006

...that Boris Karloff was sometimes billed as "Karloff the Uncanny"?
...that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution?
...that Cannibal Holocaust is one of the top ten highest grossing films of all time in Japan, acquiring approximately ¥7,000,000,000 in the first year of its release?
...that White Wolf, Inc. publishes a line of several different but overlapping games set in the "World of Darkness"?
...that the three best selling horror books of all time—Dracula by Bram Stoker, Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson—all were inspired by nightmares?