Mr.Grimly was one of Dr. Fear's early assistants, composed of various body parts and animated just like Frankenstein's monster, except he was placed in charge of doing the labor, not tossing little kids in lakes or terrorizing villagers like Frankenstein's. Mr. Grimly 's body was lost in shipping, leaving only his head. Moving into a new location in America, an abandoned haunted sanitarium, Dr. Fear found new parts and brought Mr. Grimly back to help him in his new experiments--out of the prying eyes of the maddened villagers.