Larry Kurtzberg had his glory days back in the 1930s but eventually retired to the family taxidermy business as those days waned. Sometime in the 1970s, he becomes desperate to reclaim his former acting glory and is approached by Lady Luck in the disguise of a secretary working at a TV studio WKNB in Carey, Ohio (a common setting of HHN haunted houses). Lady Luck presents the offer of either continuing the taxidermy business or taking on the role of "H.R. Bloodengutz", a host reminiscent of Grampa Munster from The Munsters, during a midnight showing of horror films. Kurtzberg accepts the offer and becomes the character.