This isn’t something that comes up a lot but I have a thing for the old style black and white monster movies. So here’s a question, are there any romances out there with monsters in them a la Universal Studios old style monsters? We all know there are a very large gaggle of vampires, shifters and what have you in romances nowadays, but they don’t really count as those old style monsters. So are there any? Pretty sure I’ve run across a Frankenstein type in a romance in the past but the others?
And the reason this came up is the following, which kind of had me going “oh, look at that” and laughing uncontrollably at some of the later ones. I mean, invisible bikini… really?
Claude Rains and Gloria Stuart in The Invisible Man (1933)
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