Ghost of Frankenstein - Three Original Story Manuscripts by Eric Taylor for the Golden Age Universal Horror Film

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1941. Screenwriter Eric Taylor created and wrote the original story for The Ghost of Frankenstein. These three manuscripts by Taylor are the studio’s own file copies, each stamped with Universal’s Central Files stamp, on the front covers. Bradbound in original studio wrappers. Very good. Enclosed together in a custom cloth clamshell box. Manuscript number one is Taylor’s original 58 page ribbon typescript in which he X-ed out words and sentences as he wrote, and contains his pencil annotations and corrections throughout. Manuscript number two is a 39 page carbon typescript and is dated April 23, 1941. The third manuscript is a 62 page ribbon typescript. The Ghost of Frankenstein is the fourth film in Universal’s Frankenstein series. IMDB describes the story: “Ygor (Bela Lugosi) resurrects Frankenstein's monster (Lon Chaney Jr.) and brings him to the original doctor's son, Ludwig (Cedric Hardwick), for help. Ludwig, obsessed with the idea of restoring the monster to full power, is unaware that his various associates all have different ideas about whose brain is to be transplanted into the monster's skull.” Eric Taylor wrote the screenplays for Universal horror films, Black Friday (1940) with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, The Black Cat (1941) with Basil Rathbone and Bela Lugosi, The Phantom of the Opera (1943) with Claude Rains, and Son of Dracula (1943) with Lon Chaney Jr.