Frankenstein, a novel written by an outspoken seventeen-year-old teenage girl, has bewildered and terrified generations of readers. It is the book that introduced the sci-fi/horror concept of the mad scientist and his hideous creation. Its suspense is derived from a man's curiosity into where life comes from and how to create it. Frankenstein has become the standard against which many horror stories are compared. It still continues to be one of the most widely …showed first 75 words of 1447 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1447 total…Mary wrote were: The Last Man (1826), tells about her liberal social position; and Lordore (1835), a kind of novelized autobiography told through a fictional character (Funk & Wagnall's, vol. 23, 359). Mary Shelley's masterpiece Frankenstein will live forever as one of the great literary and horror works of all time (In Search of..., TV Documentary). Mary Wolstonecraft Shelley died on February 1, 1851. She was survived by her one son, and what she called her "hideous progeny," the novel Frankenstein (Branagh, 15).