frankenstein (fictional character)

Explores the history and pop culture that developed over Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries including several plays, films, and television adaptations of the famous monster.

A guide to understanding "Frankenstein, " discussing the life and influences of author Mary Shelley, the sources of the ideas for the novel, the story or plot, characters and their motives, and major themes. Includes notes, a chronology, and references for further study.

Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster, only to bring danger and destruction to the lives of those he loves.

A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies is scorned for being ugly and swears revenge on his creator and the human race.

Obsessed university student Victor Frankenstein creates a being by reanimating the dead, but when it opens its eyes, he flees, leaving behind a creature that craves acceptance but is reviled instead. The monster, vowing revenge, pursues Victor to the ends of the earth.

Tough New Orleans detective Carson O'Connor and her partner, Michael Maddison, investigate a string of murders, unaware that the culprit they seek was created by Victor Frankenstein, who has survived two hundred years and is populating the city with a new race of "perfect" beings, and that his original creation, Deucalion, is hunting his maker.

Victor Frankenstein has discovered the secret of generating life from lifeless matter, and has created a monster being by using this terrible power.

A republication of the 1831 edition of the classic story about the hysteria that ensues when Dr. Victor Frankenstein creates a monster by reanimating dead flesh, and subsequently casts the creature out into a horrified community.

A biography of the nineteenth-century English writer who at the age of nineteen wrote the classic horror novel "Frankenstein.".

An abridged version of the classic "Frankenstein, " the tale of a monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies who seeks revenge on his creator, narrated by Wishbone the television dog, with information about the author and setting of the story, and a list of characters.