For years, Dr. Victor Frankenstein labors to create a new race of intelligent beings.

He spends his nights scavenging body parts from graveyards, slaughterhouses, and hospital dissection rooms.

By day he experiments in his secret laboratory, perfecting the creature who, he believes, will worship him as a god.

But when he succeeds, Frankenstein is horrified by the ugly brutishness of the patchwork being he has brought to life-and abandons his creation.

The novel that translated the stormy ethos of the gothic novel into the foundation for modern science fiction, Frankenstein is a terrifying story about how monsters-of all kinds-are made. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about the young student of science Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty.

The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818.

Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823.Shelley had travelled through Europe in 1814, journeying along the river Rhine in Germany with a stop in Gernsheim which is just 17 km (10 mi) away from Frankenstein Castle, where two centuries before an alchemist was engaged in experiments.

Later, she travelled in the region of Geneva (Switzerland)-where much of the story takes place-and the topics of galvanism and other similar occult ideas were themes of conversation among her companions.