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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most popular novels in western literature. It has been adapted and re-assembled in countless forms, from Hammer Horror films to young-adult books and bandes dessinees. Beginning with the idea of the 'Frankenstein Complex', this edited collection provides a series of creative readings that explore the elaborate intertextual networks that make up the novel's remarkable afterlife. It broadens the scope of research on Frankenstein while deepening our understanding of a text that, 200 years after its original publication, continues to intrigue and terrify us in new and unexpected ways.

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Section	Section Description	Page Number
List of illustrations	p. ix
Notes on contributors	p. xii
Introduction: The Frankenstein Complex: when the text is more than a text   Dennis R. Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry	p. 1
Part I	Dramatic adaptations of Frankenstein on stage and radio	
1	    Frankenstein''s spectacular nineteenth-century stage history and legacy   Lissette Lopez Szwydky	p. 23
2	    A Frankensteinian model for adaptation studies, or ''It lives!'': adaptive symbiosis and Peake''s Presumption, or the fate of Frankenstein   Glenn Jellenik	p. 45
3	    The Gothic imagination in American sound recordings of Frankenstein   Laurence Raw	p. 62
Part II	Cinematic and television adaptations of Frankenstein	
4	    A paranoid parable of adaptation: Forbidden Planet, Frankenstein, and the atomic age   Dennis R. Perry	p. 79
5	    The Curse of Frankenstein: Hammer Film Studios'' reinvention of horror cinema   Morgan C. O''Brien	p. 92
6	    The Frankenstein Complex on the small screen: Mary Shelley''s motivic novel as adjacent adaptation   Kyle William Bishop	p. 111
7	    The new ethics of Frankenstein: responsibility and obedience in I, Robot and X-Men: First Class   Matt Lorenz	p. 128
8	    Hammer Films and the perfection of the Frankenstein project   Maria K. Bachman and Paul C. Peterson	p. 143
Part III	Literary adaptations of Frankenstein	
9	    ''Plainly stitched together'': Frankenstein, neo-Victorian fiction, and the palimpsestuous literary past   Jamie Horrocks	p. 161
10	    Frankensteinian re-articulations in Scotland: monstrous marriage, maternity, and the politics of embodiment   Carol Margaret Davison	p. 178
11	    Young Frankensteins: graphic children''s texts and the twenty-first-century monster   Jessica Straley	p. 191
12	    In his image: the mad scientist remade in the young adult novel   Farran L. Norris Sands	p. 210
13	    The soul of the matter: Frankenstein meets H.P. Lovecraft''s ''Herbert West - Reanimator''   Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock	p. 221
Part IV	Frankenstein in art, illustrations, and comics	
14	    Illustration, adaptation, and the development of Frankenstein''s visual lexicon   Kate Newell	p. 239
15	    ''The X-Men meet Frankenstein! "Nuff Said"'': adapting Mary Shelley''s monster in superhero comic books   Joe Darowski	p. 259
16	    Expressionism, deformity, and abject texture in bande dessinée appropriations of Frankenstein   Véronique Bragard and Catherine Thewissen	p. 270
Part V	New media adaptations of Frankenstein	
17	    Assembling the body/text: Frankenstein in new media   Tully Barnett and Ben Kooyman	p. 295
18	    Adaptations of ''liveness'' in theatrical representations of Mary Shelley''s Frankenstein   Kelly Jones	p. 316
Frankenstein''s pulse: an afterword   Richard J. Hand	p. 335
Index	p. 340