Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man the Talbot family crypt to open the grave of Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney, Jr.), seeking valuables buried with him, on the night of a full moon. During the robbery, the thieves remove the wolfsbane buried with Talbot, and he is awakened from death by the full moon shining on his uncovered body. Talbot reflexively grasps the arm of the grave robber with a fur-covered hand, as the other thief flees. Talbot is found by police in Cardiff later in the night, with a vicious head wound (administered by his father at the end of "The Wolf Man"), and taken to
The Howling (film) horror film directors who directed other films that featured werewolves, including George Waggner, who directed "The Wolf Man" (1941). Others include R. William Neill ("Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man", 1943), Terence Fisher ("The Curse of the Werewolf", 1960), Freddie Francis ("Legend of the Werewolf", 1975), Erle Kenton ("House of Dracula", 1945, which co-stars John Carradine, who plays Kenton in "The Howling"), Sam Newfield ("The Mad Monster", 1942), Charles Barton ("Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein", 1948), Jacinto Molina ("La Marca del Hombre Lobo", 1968) and Lew Landers ("The Return of the Vampire", 1943). Dick Miller's bookstore owner Walter Paisley gets his