The fifteen best "Frankenstein" retellings

Emily Burack is the Senior News Editor for Town & Country, where she covers entertainment, culture, the royals, and a range of other subjects. Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at Hey Alma, a Jewish culture site.

At Town & Country she tagged fifteen of the best Frankenstein retellings, including:

Instead of retelling Frankenstein’s story, Caroline Lea instead choses to focus on Mary Shelley’s life the summer she wrote Frankenstein. It’s 1816, and Mary has left London for Lord Byron’s villa at Lake Geneva. Byron challenges each of his guests to write a supernatural tale, and Shelley takes him upon the task. Author Emma Stonex wrote, “A deliciously dark reimagining of the birth of literature's greatest monster, Love, Sex & Frankenstein is at once a heartbreaking Gothic love story and a chilling study of rage, betrayal and the mysterious origins of the creative impulse. A triumph.”

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Also see seven great horror novels inspired by Frankenstein.

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