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

The video game places the player in the role of Frankenstein's creature in the year 1793, roughly following the events of the 1994 film of the same name. The creature's journey focuses on him seeking revenge upon Frankenstein through the city of…

Frankenstein, MD is a 2014 multi-platform video adaptation of the classic novel. Pemberley Digital and PBS Studios teamed up to create and publish this modern retelling. The videos were released from August 2014 to October 2014. One episode was…

Frankenstein's Monster first appeared as part of an Atlas Comics publication in September of 1953, and made his official debut in Marvel Comics after the purchase of Atlas Comics in August of 1969. Within the comics, the Monster’s background is the…

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…

This movie addresses the question that people have been asking for centuries. What would the monster be like if someone had taken him in and raised him? By using popular cartoon characters, Universal Cartoon studios has succeeded in showing kids a…

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…

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 1931, director James Whales film, Frankenstein, was released to the public. Mary Shelley's monster, Frankenstein, was played by actor Boris Karloff. The film was a major success, largely due to Universal Studio's advertisement of the film through…

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…