"Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her great uncle disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the Arctic, but she doesn't know why or how... The 1850s are a time of discovery, and London is ablaze with the latest scientific theories and debates, especially when a spectacular new exhibition of dinosaur sculptures opens at the Crystal Palace. Mary is keen to make her name in this world of science alongside her geologist husband,...

Victor Frankenstein, anatomista, quimico y... profanador de tumbas, ha decidido violar la ley ultima de la vida: la muerte. En su improvisado laboratorio (ejem, dormitorio universitario) ha conseguido reanimar un gigantesco ser antropomorfo: Un Moonstruuuo! Que drama! Ahora Victor sera perseguido por una sombra que la reclamara lo que le toca: vivir, amar, saberse amado, representar a Hamlet... (es decir, lo usual). Y Otto, el fruto del experimento...

Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller each play Victor Frankenstein and his creation in these two performances of Danny Boyle's smash hit production of Frankenstein.

"'Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale that combines tragedy, morality, social commentary, and a thoughtful examination of the very nature of knowledge,' writes ... author Leslie S. Klinger in his foreword to The New Annotated Frankenstein. Despite its undeniable status as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written, Mary Shelley's novel is often reductively dismissed as the wellspring for tacky monster...

"The Bailey School Kids take a field trip to a science museum, where they meet Dr. Victor and his hulking assistant, Frank. Secrets lurk behind every door in the spooky old museum. What's Dr. Victor doing in his hidden lab? And could Frank be Frankenstein's monster--even though he loves to plant flowers?"--

A Modern Retelling of the Horror Classic Frankenstein, Perfect for Fans of Fear Street, Jekyll, and The Invisible Man!

"Obsessed with natural philosophy, the young Victor Frankenstein succeeds in creating life from its basic elements--and abandons the newborn monstrosity in terror when he cannot bear to look at it. The rejected creature vanishes, and Victor attempts to forget what he has done... But the monster survives. It learns. Deprived of everything, fated to forever be alone, it has nothing left but revenge."--Back cover.

Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man, and the legend, we know today.