'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling
hideousness'
The scientist Victor Frankenstein, obsessed with possessing the secrets of life, creates
a new being from the bodies of the dead. But his creature is a twisted, gruesome parody of a
man who, rejected for his monstrous appearance, sets out to destroy his maker.
Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale, conceived after a nightmare in 1816 when she was
only eighteen, became a modern myth. It is a disturbing and dramatic exploration of birth
and death, creation and destruction, and one of the most iconic horror stories of all time.
