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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley / The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd

As Mary Shelley makes clear in her forward to the extraordinary Frankenstein, she really did come up with the idea in the way Horrible Histories said; i.e. lake, thunderstorm, Lord Byron hiding behind the curtains*, her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley encouraging her to write ghost stories, etc. The idea of the scientist who reanimates bits…

December 2, 2018 in Monster mash-up.
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance / Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance (Ogden Nash)

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