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May I Be Frank? Further Hideous Progeny of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Concurrent with the 2018 bicentennial of the initial publication of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, a new crop of narratives retell, reimagine, resuscitate, and remix the urtext. These books are the latest in a long line of Shelley’s “hideous progeny” spanning nearly one hundred feature films, countless television episodes, songs, comics, toys, video games, and even a very pink (the color of the monster’s flesh?) strawberryflavored breakfast cereal, Franken Berry. Frankenstein’s monster no longer only terrifies: he counsels us as a wise father figure, he makes us laugh, he sells us things. Frankenstein fills a hybrid role in literary history as both an important text for gothic literature and a very early science fiction novel. The four new retellings of Frankenstein reviewed here harness both the gothic and the sci-fi modes, frequently simultaneously. Obsessions, uncanny doublings, haunted landscapes, and boundary transgressions (living/