To round out the three most recent attempts at a Universal Monsterverse, we watched the 2020 low-budget Horror Film The Invisible Man. It’s the best of the series so far but doesn’t fit well into any universe. So we try again to fix it!

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Book recos from Katie

The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club Series by Theodora Goss – fun, fast paced stories about the daughters of Jekyll, Frankenstein, etc set in the 19th century.

Dead Djinn Universe Series by P. Djèlí Clark – so far only a few short stories and a novel about a sort of magical FBI, set in an early 20th century Egypt that’s very different to our own. Most importantly, since the return of magic people have started worshipping the old gods. As Chekhov’s Sleeping Ancient Gods famously says, if you have sleeping ancient Egyptian gods in the first book…