| Area(s) reported: Fictional
Date(s) reported: Published in 1818"In 1818, Mary Shelly published a horror story entitled 'Frankenstein, or a Modern Prometheus'; the book was a slow seller, and critics panned it at the time. But now the tale of Frankenstein's monster, created by the scientific re-animation of dead human body parts, has become perhaps the best known European monster worldwide... so what exactly explains this vast popularity?" This monster's full article is in Monsters Here & There, Vol. 1 | |
