1. [n]  the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses
2. [n]  the monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation)
3. [n]  an agency that escapes control and destroys its creator

Frankenstein
Written in 1816 when she was only 19, for a horror-writing contest suggested by Byron, Mary Shelley`s novel of the modern Prometheus chillingly dramatized the dangerous potential of life created in the laboratory. A frightening creation myth for our own time, Frankenstein remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written, and an undisputed classic.

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