FrankensteinThe most famous horror story in world literaturethe original tale of a mad scientist and his monsteris also a profoundly moving masterpiece. No one in the grip of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, with its mythic minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the adaptations, imitations, and homages which have followed in its ample