Adult Content Warning
This work could have adult content. If you continue, you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.
-
Strange Happenings by NotATalkingPossum
Fandoms: Universal Monsters Universe, The Man Who Laughs (1928), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), Old Dark House (1932), The Mummy (1932), The Invisible Man (1933), The Black Cat (1934), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Werewolf of London (1935), The Raven (1935), The Invisible Ray (1936), Dracula's Daughter (1936), Son of Frankenstein (1939), The Phantom Creeps, The Invisible Man Returns (1940), Black Friday (1940), The Mummy (Movies 1940-1944), The Invisible Woman (1940), Man-Made Monster (1941), Abbott and Costello - Fandom, The Wolf Man (1941), The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942), Invisible Agent (1942), Night Monster (1942), Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), Son of Dracula (1974), Phantom of the Opera (1943)
03 Dec 2025
Tags
Summary
Strange people and strange happenings have long been rumored to dwell in the darkness. Of course, hoaxes and hysteria have long fueled most of those rumors. Some have even been attributed to the supernatural. Yet, though time has obscured the truth, a handful of events remain difficult to explain even today, and a disproportionate number of them seem to have occurred during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
I, a researcher in the early 2020s, began learning of some of these more unlikely and unusual happenings that are seldom found outside forgotten tomes and library archives quite by accident, and have taken it upon myself to piece together what happened, no matter how unlikely these events may seem...
I hope it will thrill you.
It may shock you.
It might even horrify you.
So if you feel you would not care to subject your nerves to such a strain, now is your chance to, eh… well, I warned you!
(A modern researcher in the "real" world starts finding evidence of the events of the Universal Monsters universe having happened in the past.)