Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

A young scientist from Geneva, obsessed with the mystery of life and death, succeeds in the most daring feat ever attempted by a human being: bringing to life a creature assembled from the remains of the dead. But the very moment his experiment comes to life, Victor Frankenstein is overcome with horror at what he has created, and flees, abandoning his creature to its fate.

Rejected by everyone, con...