Frankenstein

The protagonist of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel Frankenstein is the archetypal "mad scientist" who constructs a creature that ultimately brings about his demise. One of the most well-known monsters in the history of motion pictures, the creature's name has come to be associated with Frankenstein. Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley, was published in 1818 and combines science fiction and Gothic horror. The novel depicts the tale of Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss natural science student who builds a lifelike artificial man from body parts. The creature makes everyone it comes into contact with want to hate it, despite its initial desire for affection.