Adapting Frankenstein: The monster's eternal lives in popular culture

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Is One Of The Most Popular Novels In Western Literature. It Has Been Adapted And Re-assembled In Countless Forms, From Hammer Horror Films To Young-adult Books And Bandes Dessinées. Beginning With The Idea Of The 'frankenstein Complex', This Edited Collection Provides A Series Of Creative Readings That Explore The Elaborate Intertextual Networks That Make Up The Novel's Remarkable Afterlife. It Broadens The Scope Of Research On Frankenstein While Deepening Our Understanding Of A Text That, 200 Years After Its Original Publication, Continues To Intrigue And Terrify Us In New And Unexpected Ways.