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In this early nineteenth-century watercolor painting depicting a woman's body being dissected, Thomas Rowlandson explores early nineteenth-century attitudes about "resurrection men," that is, people who stole cadavers for anatomical research. The…

Title Page of the 1818 Version: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus retrieved from the National Library of Medicine for purely educational purposes.

In the 1930s, horror films were a staple of Universal Picture Studios. Universal produced movies in the 1940s including House of Frankenstein which Van Helsing is loosely based off of. In the 2004 horror film, Van Helsing, starring Hugh Jackman and…