But it now appears Shelley’s true source of inspiration for Victor Frankenstein’s monster was considerably closer to home.
“Boris Karloff’s monster has none of the subtlety that the being has in the novel.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus was published 200 years ago in 1818, when she was just 21.
As they huddled for warmth around a fire one night, Byron suggested each of them should write a horror story.
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