He discovers the body of the monster near a river in the woods, where the force of the explosion had apparently blown him. The monster is alive but unresponsive, so Fritz, er, Karl…Ygor drags him back with him and hides him in the Frankenstein family tomb.

1925: Some 40 years after his fathers untimely demise, Henry Frankenstein’s son Wolf, a doctor himself, returns to his ancestral home only to find the locals aren’t exactly the forgive and forget type. On top of all the personal horror they recall, tourism never did pick up again. Wolf sets about making amends. While exploring the family estate, however, he discovers Ygor hiding out in the ruins of the old windmill. He also finds the monster in an apparent coma down in the family vault.

After vowing up and down he’d never do any such thing, that old Frankenstein blood takes over and Wolf revives the monster. Ygor then orders the monster (who no longer speaks and only listens to Ygor) to go out there and kill the people on the jury who sent him to the gallows. Not pleased with this, Wolf shoots Ygor. Not pleased with that, the monster gets upset. Much activity ensues, culminating in Wolf kicking the monster into a pool of boiling sulfur. The locals hail Wolf as not so bad after all, and he goes away. (Son of Frankenstein)

1926: Ygor recovers from his gunshot wound, which turned out to be not so fatal after all. Meanwhile, the debate begins in the village over what exactly should be done with Frankenstein’s nearly vacant castle.

1927: After much long debate, the local government finally agrees, against Ygor’s strong protests, to tear the castle down, which they begin almost immediately. Fleeing into the catacombs beneath the structure as the demolition begins, Ygor discovers the blasting has knocked the weakened monster clean out of the sulfur pit. He cleans him up quickly, and the two escape unnoticed into the countryside as Ygor decides what to do next. They wouldn’t be going back to that bastard Wolf Frankenstein, that’s for damn sure! (The Ghost of Frankenstein)