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Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, was completed by Mary Shelley at the age of 19. She infused this original novel with Gothic and Romantic elements. Scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a large and powerful creature in the likeness of man, but is disgusted by his own creation and he abandons the being to fend for itself. Spawning generations of horror stories in the genre, Frankenstein is a gruesome warning against playing
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"Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man - and the legend - we know today"--www.imdb.com.
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A mediados del siglo XVIII, un hombre juega con la idea de la creación de la vida. Es cuando crece y va a la universidad, que lleva a cabo un experimento que helaría la sangre a cualquiera: dar vida a restos de cuerpos que alguna vez respiraron. Asustado por el monstruo que acababa de parir, Frankenstein huye y lo deja solo. La historia se divide en los relatos del creador y su deseo por olvidar su terrible experimento; y la historia del monstruo,...
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The infamous, Most Wanted Goosebumps characters are out on the loose and they're coming after you! Catch them all undead or alive!
Kat is reluctant to visit her uncle Vic Frankenstein because of all the rumors about him. But Kat is relieved to find that even though he lives in a dark, old castle-like mansion, Uncle Vic is a quiet, gentle man, a scientist interested in building robots with artificial intelligence. Also, Kat loves Poochie, Vic's small,...
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When Konrad, Victor's twin brother, becomes deathly ill, Victor knows he must find the book that contains the recipe for the legendary Elixir of Life hidden in a secret room in the Frankenstein chateau. The elixir needs only three ingredients, but impossible odds, dangerous alchemy and a bitter love triangle threaten the quest at every turn.
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"Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her great uncle disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the Arctic, but she doesn't know why or how ... The 1850s are a time of discovery, and London is ablaze with the latest scientific theories and debates, especially when a spectacular new exhibition of dinosaur sculptures opens at the Crystal Palace. Mary is keen to make her name in this world of science alongside her geologist husband,...
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"A sapphic reimagining of Mary Shelley's youth, vividly exploring innocence, young love, gothic mystery and the roots of her literary masterpiece, Frankenstein. Switzerland, 1816. A volcanic eruption in Indonesia envelopes the whole of Europe in ash and cloud. Amid this "year without a summer," eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley arrive at Lake Geneva to visit Lord Byron and his companion John Polidori. Anguished by the...
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"Leviathan has attacked. S.H.A.D.E. has fallen. And Frankenstein is a free agent once again! Now the DC Universe's most unstoppable monster is free to strike at his former mentor turned bitter enemy, Melmoth-and not a moment too soon. Because Melmoth hashis sights set on not only our world, but the entire Multiverse. And there's only one place he can find forces dark enough to destroy all of creation: Gotham City. To stop Melmoth and save the Multiverse,...
16) Cowpiggy
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Shelley Frankenstein is a little girl with a rather imfamous family heritage, who loves to be scared and assumes all other kids feel the same. To prove her theory, Shelley and her assistant brother, Iggy, set about creating new toys to horrify their playground peers. But all of their experiments backfire in a completely unexpected way.
17) Frankenstein
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Discusses the origins and history of the Frankenstein monster and its role in popular culture.
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