Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus

"Hateful day when I received life!" I exclaimed in agony. "Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?"

A scientist and his creation-who is the monster and who is the man?

Mary Shelley created a genre with Frankenstein, giving the world a new form of terror. When Victor Frankenstein brings forth life, all that follows is death.

Gothic grotesqueries, penny dreadfuls, pulp magazines, and other darkly inventive publications have produced a dre...