Five things you (probably) dont know about Frankenstein
It’s an 1818 epistolary novel involving ice floes, Islamophobia, and angst (lots of angst) that became a gothic touchstone of the modern horror story. What? You don’t recognize “Frankenstein or, the Modern Prometheus,” written by the teenage Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley?
That’s because when I say “Frankenstein,” you picture a bigheaded, neck-bolted doofus staggering around with his arms out in front of him. Like that image, nearly all of the pop-culture ideas of Shelley’s creation are from the 1931 film version, directed by James Whale that launched Boris Karloff to stardom.
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