Night Monster (1942)

A gloomy old mansion, a fog-covered swamp, a household of suspicious servants, and a crippled millionaire with a grudge against his doctors.... what more could one ask for in a good old-fashioned murder mystery? Throw in a mysterious Hindu mystic who can materialize objects out of thin air and a hideous monster who roams the countryside at night, and you've got the makings of a first-rate Universal horror film!Night Monster (1942) may not be as well remembered as Dracula, Frankenstein, or The Wolf Man, but it is certainly one of the more unusual little chillers to emerge from Universal Studios during the 1940s. Unlike the studio's other monster films, this one combines the traditional old-dark-house mystery with a dash of Eastern mysticism and a sprinkling of science fiction. The result is a surprisingly engrossing 73 minutes of entertainment.The story begins at Ingston Towers, an old mansion situated in the middle of a lonely marshland. Its owner, Kurt Ingston (Ralph Morgan), is a…