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 Wolf Man (1941 film) notices as well and cries for her friend's condition as the local police arrive on the scene. The poem, contrary to popular belief, was not an ancient legend, but was in fact an invention of screenwriter Siodmak. The poem is repeated in every subsequent film in which Talbot/The Wolf Man appears, with the exception of "House of Dracula" and "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein", and is also quoted in the later film "Van Helsing", although many later films change the last line of the poem to "And the moon is full and bright". In episode 944 of "Dark Shadows", Christopher