here is another facsinating extract from the life of herbert edgar wyndham
In partnership with scientist Jonathan Drew, Wyndham moved his experiments to the seclusion of Wundagore Mountain in the Balkans. Discovery of the
uranium on the land (inherited by Drew's wife) provided vast funding, and they bought more land from local baron Gregor Russoff. Assembling a "citadel of science" designed by German scientist Horace Grayson, the pair continued their experiment until Drew's daughter fell ill from uranium poisoning, and was placed into suspended animation to save her life. Subsequently, Drew's wife was attacked and killed by a
werewolf (Russoff himself, victim of a family curse), and Drew left Wundagore; Wyndham, on the other hand, developed a suit of protective silver armor for himself and continued his work. Now joined in his work by research assistant Mile Warren, Wyndham was able to make more and more radical breakthroughs, including the
genetic acceleration of some local animals into the half-human, half-animal beings that he dubbed his "
New Men".