Frankenstein: Using parts from corpses, Victor Frankenstein creates a large, man-like creature. Rejected and abused by humans, the creature takes revenge by committing murder. Frankenstein then pursues the creature, determined to kill him or die in the attempt. -- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: When Dr. Henry Jekyll begins to look ill and isolates himself from his friends, they fear for his life. A mysterious evil man named Edward...

"Frankenstein was Mary Shelley's immensely powerful contribution to the ghost stories which she, Percy Shelley, and Byron devised one wet summer in Switzerland. Its protagonist is a young student of natural philosophy, who learns the secret of imparting life to a creature constructed from relics of the dead, with horrific consequences." "Frankenstein confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism: topics such as degeneracy, hereditary...

Did Victor Frankenstein really create a monster? What do you call a living being who was put together from animal and human pieces - and infused with the spark of life? Do you call him human or non-human? What makes Victor Frankenstein more human than his creation? Frankenstein was first published in 1818 when Mary Shelley was twenty years old. Two hundred years later, the themes of humanity and scientific creation remain relevant for our modern...

"Featuring over 200 illustrations and nearly 1,000 annotations, this sumptuous volume recaptures Shelley's early nineteenth-century world with historical precision and imaginative breadth, tracing the social and political roots of the author's revolutionary brand of Romanticism. Braiding together decades of scholarship with his own keen insights, Klinger recounts Frankenstein's indelible contributions to the realms of science fiction, feminist theory,...

A retelling of Mary Shelley's classic horror story about the scientist who creates a hideous being only to have the monster turn on him and his family.

Tampering with life and death, Dr. Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to create a human monster.