I'm a huge fan of PBS' Monstrum series. In this episode, Dr. Emily Zarka shines a cobwebbed coach lantern onto the golden age of movie monsters from Universal Pictures.
Drawn from ancient folklore and existing fiction, Dracula, The Mummy, The Wolf Man, Frankenstein, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and The Invisible Man would become monstrous archetypes of the 20th century and their films would set the standard for much of the cinema that followed.