Frankenstein
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“Frankenstein” is the classic Gothic horror story about the young early-nineteenth-century scientist Victor Frankenstein, who decides to create a human being using the latest scientific techniques involving chemistry and electricity. By night, Victor collects the body parts he needs from graves, slaughterhouses and dissecting rooms.
The creature Victor makes is a terrible misshapen monster, whose revenge on Victor for his condition is to kill Victor’s younger brother. The monster then demands a mate and Victor starts to create one, but overcome with revulsion, he quits.
The monster kills his best friend and then Victor’s bride Elizabeth (on their wedding night!) and disappears to the Arctic. Victor searches for him in vain and, dying, is found by an Arctic explorer to whom he tells the whole terrible story.
“Frankenstein” has been made into a number of successful horror movies since 1910, when Edison began the tradition. Boris Karloff starred in the 1931 Hollywood version. The film was so successful if was followed by dozens of imitations, including”Bride of Frankenstein” (1935), a 1969 Japanese version: “Frankenstein Conquers the World,” and Mel Brooks’ “Young Frankenstein” (1974).
The original story was written in 1818 by <written by> Mary Shelley*
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