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Lynd Ward, the illustrator of this particular image, was an American wood carver and writer. He focused on wordless novels and used wood engravings to illustrate them. His black and white wood carvings were an excellent addition to the first ever…

The Frankenstein comic series, by Dick Briefer, started in 1945 and lasted up until 1954. Briefer’s first adaptation of Frankenstein was a single “horror” comic that started in 1940 and was a close retelling of Mary Shelley’s novel. Once the series…

The first illustrated edition of Frankenstein was published by Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley in London in 1831, thirteen years after the novel was first published. The publishers commissioned Theodor Von Host, a protege of Henry Fuseli, to create…

This novel by Thalia Field explores the life, career, and marriage of Claude Bernard, an esteemed - and somewhat notorious - vivisectionist of the 19th century, whose experiments on animals offered a great deal to science and earned the ire of animal…

In 2015, 20th Century Fox released this movie that is loosely based off of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. Starring two big name actors James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe, the movie displays more about the relationship between Victor and his…

Similar to the plot of many Scooby-Doo books, Scooby-Doo! and the Frankenstein Monster tells the story of Scooby and the gang who are trying to find the Frankenstein creature because he stole a valuable piece of jewelry. Frankenstein’s creature…

The painting Prometheus Bound by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens acts as a visual interpretation from the Greek Poet Aeschylus’s play of the same name; it depicts the titan Prometheus bound to a rock and being consumed by an eagle as punishment by…

Lita Judge’s Mary’s Monster, published in 2018, explores the events in Mary Shelley’s life that led to her writing Frankenstein. The story of Mary Shelley’s life including her parents, meeting Percy Shelley, leaving home at a young age, and losing a…

This entire edition of Life magazine dedicates itself to celebrating 200 years of Frankenstein, as well as uncovering why the monster has lasted such a long time. The publication is split into three sections, the first titled “A Monster is Born”…

Lesson plans reflect on how Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has evolved over the past twenty years. Through the comparison of lesson plans from two different decades, it becomes evident that society plays a role in the overall meaning that teachers want…