Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus is an 1818 science fiction
romance by Mary Shelley. Frankenstein, a young student, animates a
soulless monster made out of corpses from churchyards and dissecting
rooms by means of galvanism. Longing for sympathy and shunned by
everyone, the creature ultimately turns to evil and brings dreadful
retribution on the student for usurping God's prerogative...