Ultra-, ultra-rare vintage handwritten letter on the blank verso of a Christmas card sent to his niece and her husband in the 1960s, signed twice as "Uncle Van" on the opposite side. One of the longest writing examples from the actor we know to exist, in good condition, with mailing folds and some light toning. Note that the image of the star shown here alongside the scan of the autograph is not included. Best known for his starring role as Dr. Van Helsing in Tod Browning's horror masterpiece Dracula (1931), serious, bespectacled, gray-haired character actor Edward Van Sloan also thrilled audiences in Frankenstein (1931), Behind the Mask (1932), The Mummy (1932), The Black Room (1935), Dracula's Daughter (1936), Before I Hang (1940), The Monster and the Girl (1941), and The Mask of Diijon (1946). Genuine autographs of the monster movie icon are as rare as hen's teeth.

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