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What do you get the monster who has everything?
Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley’s genre-creating gothic horror novel, turns 202 in January. While it may not be a landmark birthday, at that age, every year of continued relevance is worth celebrating.
And we do continue to celebrate. The fingerprints of Victor Frankenstein and his monster are all over our popular culture (raise your hands, Penny Dreadful fans) and our collective consciousness. Even The Royal Ballet has taken a stab at adapting this urtext of modern technological anxiety.
After two centuries of adaptations and riffs, though, what’s left to discover in Shelley’s enduring classic? As it turns out, quite a bit, judging by these diverse, modern takes on our beloved creature feature.
