In Search of Frankenstein Author:Radu Florescu THE FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER Fact or Fiction? — Did Frankenstein's monster spring full-blown from the imagination of Mary Shelley that rainy summer in 1816? Was he just the product of a competition to write "the best ghost story?" Or did Percy Bysshe Shelley's wife piece together the tortured creature from the mystery and myth that surrounded the ... more »accursed family Frankenstein who lived atop Magnet mountain...and the infamous alchemist Konrad Dippel who performed his diabolical experiments in their castle?« less