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Title

The bedside, bathtub & armchair companion to Frankenstein / Carol Adams, Douglas Buchanan, and Kelly Gesch.

Author

Adams, Carol J.

Publication

New York : Continuum, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Buchanan, Douglas
• Gesch, Kelly

Description

208 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Bedside, bathtub, and armchair companion to Frankenstein

Subject

• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 > Frankenstein
• Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character) > Miscellanea
• Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) > Miscellanea
• Horror tales, English > Miscellanea
• Scientists in literature > Miscellanea
• Monsters in literature > Miscellanea
• Frankenstein films

Genre/Form

Trivia and miscellanea

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The monster of them all -- Capsule : Victor Frankenstein's story, part I -- I am galvanized : Frankenstein science, then and now -- Sidebar : Dexter's laboratory -- Sidebar : charge it : when the monster gets wired -- Ten easy steps for setting up a mad scientist laboratory & creating your very own blasphemy -- Sidebar : the word "monster" -- Sidebar : the importance of parents -- Fainting spells : the monster onstage -- The electrifying monster : film takes to the monster -- Suture self : Boris Karloff, not Bela Lugosi, sews up a big role -- Sidebar : June 16 -- Sidebar : bolt upright : the monster walks -- Does the subtitle explain it all? : the modern Prometheus -- Sidebar : Prometheus at the movies : what's worth bringing (back) to life? -- Sci-fi movies and the theme of Frankenstein making a monster the Van Helsing way -- Sidebar : how to make your own Frankenstein monster -- Mary Shelley tells a birth story : the teenager who wrote Frankenstein -- Map : Mary Shelley, the fecund writer -- A selection from Mary Shelley's reading lists, 1814-16 -- Sidebar : Frankenstein in common parlance -- Excerpt : Victor goes to the mountains and meets the creature -- Sidebar : how sublime! -- Capsule : an orphan's tale -- the monster's story -- Frankenstein in the funnies -- Sidebar : Dan Piraro : why I like drawing Frankenstein's monster -- Sit down! : Frankenstein's monster for children -- Sidebar : the first flower child and the change in the message of the 1931 Frankenstein -- Why I'm a vegetarian : an exclusive interview with the monster -- Excerpt : Victor describes how the monster demands a mate -- Capsule : Victor Frankenstein's story, part II -- Map : here there be monsters : a map of Victor's travels to Scotland and back, until his marriage -- Sidebar : it wasn't incest! : Victor Frankenstein defends his marriage to his first cousin -- A good cast is worth repeating : Bride of Frankenstein -- Sidebar : I was the Bride of Frankenstein : Elsa Lanchester -- Pyramid themes : Frank in Egypt, intentionally or not (an acrostic) -- Sidebar : the creation of the second monster -- Frankenstein : the musical? -- Sidebar : Rocky horror picture show -- Song : Frankenstein's valentine -- Capsule : "all at sea" : Walton's story -- Polar opposites : does Victor renounce over-reaching and will Walton? -- The Jabbermock : a cautionary tale on messing in God's domain without a permission slip, in the style of Lewis Carroll -- Monsters on ice -- Lurching ever onward : Charles Addams, Ted Cassidy, and the monster -- The monster gets a first name : television embraces the comic side of horror -- Sidebar : living with the Munsters in Waxahachie, Texas -- From ice-olation to the fireside hearth and back again : the story takes shape -- Sidebar : Safie's independent mother and Mary Wollstonecraft -- Simulacrum and disfigurations -- Missing persons advertisements -- Puzzler : a Frankenstein quiz -- 13 ways of looking at Frankenstein (with apologies to Wallace Stevens) -- Sidebar : of gods, monsters, and homosexual panic -- What to do if you meet a monster : an etiquette guide -- The son of the bride in the house of the ghost of Frankenstein : successor Universal movies after Whale -- Collectors : an interview with Donald Glut -- Bill of lading to Chick Young and Wilbur Grey -- Monsterbilia -- Sidebar : the way of all (pumpkin) flesh -- How they died -- Sidebar : fire and ice in the Frankenstein story -- A hammered-out plot -- Puzzler : a monstrous crossword puzzle -- Herr Frankenstein is greatly changed -- Sidebar : the role of women in monster comics -- Sidebar : the postmodern Prometheus -- The animated director -- Collectors : an interview with Forrest J. Ackerman -- All stitched up : the 1818 versus 1831 editions : a publishing history -- A Frankenstein film test : can you identify which films were never made? -- A Frank success : the Frankenstein stamp -- "You've been overexposed" : a memo from the monster's agent -- Putting the monster behind you.

ISBN

• 9780826418234 (alk. paper)
• 0826418236 (alk. paper)
• 9780826418241 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0826418244 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006100001

OCLC

• 77004145
• SCSB-11354642

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library