Mary, Percy and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for days, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made, inspiring the novel.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written the British author Mary Shelley. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns...
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 after the creature is rejected by society.
... Captain Robert Walton, reported lost at sea during the latter part of the eighteenth century. And no, I didn't know that just looking at it, Father, I found that all out later. For the moment, though, all I knew was that it was the ...
Mary, Percy and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for days, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made, inspiring the novel."