# Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man - first cross-over? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 29, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankenstein-meets-the-wolf-man-first-cross-over/696875 "2014-08-29T16:13:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankenstein-meets-the-wolf-man-first-cross-over/696875/21 "2014-09-01T22:06:04Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Since we have branched out from movies to comics, I think I can safely mention the 1921 novel _She and Allan_, by H. Rider Haggard, which tied together the Allan Quatermain series and the Ayesha series. > > [H. Rider Haggard - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rider_Haggard) > Scroll down to the bottom of the page. There are links to Project Gutenberg’s files for both series. Well, that’s an artist doing a crossover with his own works, which is a lot more common than crossovers with the works of others. Robert E, Howard did it (_Kings of the Night_ and Edgar Rice Burroughs did it (_Tarzan at the Earth’s core_) and so did others. H. Rider Haggard beats these. But, in the spirit of SDMB one-upmanship, I have to point out that it’s not the first. _She and Allan_ dates from 1921, but Jules Verne had multiple crossovers in his books in the 19th century – Captain Nemo from _20,000 Leagues_ shows up in _The Mysterious Island_ (1874), as does someone from _In Search of the Castaways/The Children of Captain Grant_. And in 1882 his stage play _Journey through the Impossible_ brings together characters from several of his books, including Captain Nemo. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankenstein-meets-the-wolf-man-first-cross-over/696875.md?page=1)