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Frankenstein ; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley . Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein , a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821. Shelley travelled through Europe in 1815 along the river Rhine in Germany, stopping in Gernsheim , 17 kilometres (11 mi) away from Frankenstein Castle , where two centuries before, an alchemist engaged in experiments. She then journeyed to the region of Geneva , Switzerland, where much of the story takes place. Galvanism and occult ideas were topics of conversation among her companions, particularly her lover and future husband Percy B. Shelley . In 1816, Mary, Percy and Lord Byron had a competition to see who coul...

Frankenstein's monster or Frankenstein's creature, often erroneously referred to as simply "Frankenstein", is a fictional character who first appeared in Mary Shelley 's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus . Shelley's title thus compares the monster's creator, Victor Frankenstein , to the mythological character Prometheus , who fashioned humans out of clay and gave them fire. In Shelley's Gothic story , Victor Frankenstein builds the creature in his laboratory through an ambiguous method based on a scientific principle he discovered. Shelley describes the monster as 8 feet (240 cm) tall and terribly hideous, but emotional. The monster attempts to fit into human society but is shunned, which leads him to seek revenge against Frankenstein. According to the scholar Joseph Carroll , the monster occupies "a border territory between the characteristics that typically define protagonists and antagonists". Frankenstein's monste...

The Mummy is a 1932 American pre-Code horror film directed by Karl Freund . The screenplay by John L. Balderston was from a story by Nina Wilcox Putnam and Richard Schayer . Released by Universal Studios , the film stars Boris Karloff , Zita Johann , David Manners , Edward Van Sloan and Arthur Byron . The film is about an ancient Egyptian mummy named Imhotep who is discovered by a team of archeologists and inadvertently brought back to life through a magic scroll. Disguised as a modern Egyptian, the mummy searches for his lost love, who he believes has been reincarnated into a modern girl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy_(1932_film) ------------------------------- Frankenstein is a 1931 American pre-Code horror monster film from Universal Pictures . It is about a scientist and his assistant who dig up corpses to build a man animated by electricity. The project goes awry when Dr. Frankenstein's assistant accidentally gives the creature an abnormal, mur...