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 dessinées. 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.

IntroductionThe Frankenstein Complex: when the text is more than a text - Dennis Cutchins and Dennis R. PerryPart I: Dramatic adaptations of Frankenstein on stage and radio1 Frankenstein's spectacular nineteenth-century stage history and legacy - Lissette Lopez Szwydky2 A Frankensteinian model for adaptation studies, or 'It Lives!': adaptive symbiosis and Peake's Presumption, or the fate of Frankenstein - Glenn Jellenik3 The gothic imagination in American sound recordings of Frankenstein - Laurence RawPart II: Cinematic and television adaptations of Frankenstein4 A paranoid parable of adaptation: Forbidden Planet, Frankenstein, and the atomic age - Dennis R. Perry5 The Curse of Frankenstein: Hammer film studios' reinvention of horror cinema - Morgan C. O'Brien6 The Frankenstein Complex on the small screen: Mary Shelley's motivic novel as adjacent adaptation - Kyle Bishop7 The new ethics of Frankenstein: responsibility and obedience in I, Robot and X-Men: First Class - Matt Lorenz8 Hammer films and the perfection of the Frankenstein project - Maria K. Bachman and Paul Peterson Part III: Literary adaptations of Frankenstein9 'Plainly stitched together': Frankenstein, neo-Victorian fiction, and the palimpsestuous literary past - Jamie Horrocks10 Frankensteinian re-articulations in Scotland: monstrous marriage, maternity, and the politics of embodiment - Carol Margaret Davison11 Young Frankensteins: graphic children's texts and the twenty-first-century monster - Jessica Straley12 In his image: the mad scientist remade in the young adult novel - Farran Norris Sands13 The soul of the matter: Frankenstein meets H. P. Lovecraft's 'Herbert West-Reanimator' - Jeffrey Andrew WeinstockPart IV: Frankenstein in art, illustrations, and comics: from X-Men to steampunk14 Illustration, adaptation and the development of Frankenstein's visual lexicon - Kate Newell15 'The X-Men meet Frankenstein! "Nuff Said"': adapting Mary Shelley's monster in superhero comic books- Joe Darowski16 Expressionism, deformity and abject texture in bande dessinée appropriations of Frankenstein - Véronique Bragard and Catherine ThewissenPart V: New media adaptations of Frankenstein17 Assembling the body/text: Frankenstein in new media - Tully Barnett and Ben Kooyman18 Adaptations of 'liveness' in theatrical representations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Kelly JonesAfterwordFrankenstein's pulse: an afterword - Richard J. HandIndex