Frankenstein Day

Pick up one of these titles to celebrate Frankenstein Day, the last Friday in August, marking the 205th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s classic.

The Man, The Myth, The Legend

• Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

Kids

• Frankenstein: An Anatomy Primer by Jennifer Adams; art by Alison Oliver
• Frankenstein’s Dog by R. L. Stine (Read now on OverDrive)
• Frankenweenie – Disney Presents a Film by Tim Burton (Watch on DVD)
• Monster Histories: Frankenstein’s Monster by Marie Pearson
• What is the Story of Frankenstein? by Sheila Keenan; illustrated by David Malan

Teens

• The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White (Read now on OverDrive)
• Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection story & art by Junji Ito
• Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• M is for Monster by Talia Dutton
• Manga Classics: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; art by Linus Liu; story adaptation by M. Chandler
• Mary: The Adventures of Mary Shelley’s Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Granddaughter by Brea Grant; art by Yishan Li
• Mary Shelley, Monster Hunter: Vol. 1 – Abomination by Adam Glass, Olivia Cuartero-Briggs, co-creators & writers; art by Hayden Sherman
• Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lita Judge
• Strange Star by Emma Carroll (Read now on OverDrive)
• Teen Frankenstein by Chandler Baker (Read now on OverDrive)

Fiction

• Alive! A Valentino Mystery by Loren D. Estleman (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match by Sally Thorne (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick (Read now on OverDrive)
• Frankenstein: Prodigal Son by Dean Koontz (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (Read now on OverDrive)
• Frankenstein Underground by Mike Mignola; art by Ben Stenbeck
• The Graphic Canon: The World’s Great Literature as Comics and Visuals – Vol. 2 edited by Russ Kick
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill (Read now on OverDrive)
• Pride and Prometheus by John Kessel (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Sherlock Holmes and Frankenstein’s Diary by Barry Grant (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Villa by Rachel Hawkins (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

And more!

• The Bride of Frankenstein (Watch on Blu-ray)
• Bud Abbott and Lou Costello meet Frankenstein (Watch on Blu-ray)
• Frankenstein (Watch on Blu-ray)
• Frankenstein: A Cultural History by Susan Tyler Hitchcock
• In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood
• The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Attempts to Reanimate Dead Tissue, and the Writing of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Roseanne Montillo (Read now on OverDrive)
• Mary Shelley: The Strange True Tale of Frankenstein’s Creator by Catherine Reef (Read now on OverDrive)
• Monster, She Wrote: The Women who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger (Read now on OverDrive)
• Paradise Lost by John Milton (Read now on OverDrive)
• Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
• Young Frankenstein – Twentieth Century Fox Presents a Mel Brooks Film (Watch on DVD)