Frankenstein (1931 film) in "The Ghost of Frankenstein" (1942) after his apparent murder in the earlier film). This character — a deranged blacksmith whose neck was broken and twisted due to a botched hanging — befriends the monster and later helps Dr. Wolf Frankenstein, leading to the "hunchbacked assistant" called "Igor" commonly associated with "Frankenstein" in popular culture. Frye also appears in later films in the series, such as in "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" (1943). Guillermo del Toro had expressed interest in directing the reboot film for Universal. Del Toro said his "Frankenstein" would be a faithful "Miltonian tragedy", citing Frank Darabont's
Castle of Frankenstein the first published comics page by Marvel artist-writer-editor Larry Hama. "Castle of Frankenstein" also carried an unusual original comic strip, "Baron von Bungle", by Richard Bojarski, who gave a humorous twist to the world depicted in Universal horror films. Beck, with an editorial assist by fantasy fiction scholar Haywood P. Norton, assembled the paperback anthology, "The Frankenstein Reader" (Ballantine Books, 1962). The two brought together a roster of vintage horror-fantasy tales by E.F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Robert W. Chambers, Ralph Adams Cram, Charles Dickens, Amelia B. Edwards, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Richard Middleton, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H.G.