Frankenstein: The Creation Scene

Sutured body parts, flashing electrodes, bubbling chemicals–they’re some of the best-known elements of the Frankenstein creation scene. And none are in the novel.

For over 200 years, playwrights, screenwriters, comic artists, and (more recently) game designers have endeavored to fill in the blanks of a process that Mary Shelley’s narrative covers in fewer than 100 words at the beginning of Chapter V.

Above: The creation scene as presented in the graphic novel Doc Frankenstein, created by Geof Da...