Eek! by Scott Nickel for September 21, 2018

Hence, the theme of the Alley Oop reruns!

First published anonymously January 1, 1818. Happy birthday, science fiction!

“THAT’S FRONKENSTEEN!”

Mary Shelley had no idea what kind of industry her book would become. She created a monster.

Doesn’t look a day over 199.

A classic. But, Frankie – don’t turn around…someone lit a candle…

That is the first version. For 1832 it was changed slightly in places. I have an annotated volume of it.

Shelley never actually wrote that the creature was reanimated from the dead or how it was created, but because of Victor’s studies in alchemy, I think it might have been more a homunculus than a patchwork man.

Pay attention to the Monster, kiddies! Reading is good for you and MWS’s book is still a great read!

I remember my college professor telling me Mary Shelley created the story on a rainy afternoon in 1816 in Geneva, Switzerland, where she was staying with her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their friend Lord Byron. Byron proposed they each write a gothic ghost story, but only Mary Shelley completed hers. The rest is history!

Frankenstein’s monster, the Mummy, the Wolfman, Dracula, as a child theses guys gave me many nightmares. The horror was more exquisite than any of the explicit movies being made now!