Horror. Romance. Science. A classic tale that would be a fright to miss The idea for the story came to the author Mary Shelley in a dream she had about a scientist who had created life and was horrified by what he had made. This Gothicstyle romance is among the first of true science fiction novels if not the first. A young scientist named Victor Frankenstein after going through his own neardeath experience decides to play God and create life in the form of a grotesque creature which turns into