...Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus...

"When I reflected on his crimes and malice, my hatred and revenge burst all bounds of moderation.  I would have made a pilgrimage to the highest peak of the Andes, could I when there have precipitated him to their base."
- 9.6 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein

What's fascinating about the success of Frankenstein is that its genesis is as queer a tale as the titular horrors of the doctor's story.  As well known as it is, that Mary Shelley wrote this at the urging of her lover, Lord Byron, during a lightless summer of 1816, when possessed by 'grim terrors'.  She had struggled for several days to come up with a ghost story, until the galvanizing effects of stress struck this visual chord within her.

If you have not read it, and with Halloween mere weeks away, I'd entreat you to try.  It is not only Gothic, and, both, Romantic - it is the height of fantastical fiction, or science fiction, or fantasy.  Mary wrote it as if the factual world of Dr. Frankenstein existed in some other universe and she fully culled all of his resources as if it were a research document.

And, if you have a chance, or the money, I was lucky to be introduced to artist Bernie Wrightson's rendition of the novel back in '83.  Of all the illustrations his is the most haunting and the most familiar.  The creature is the height of perversity and failure of Science - and, yes, Science does fail at times.  Yet, the outcome of the experiment brought forth a creature we fear, but ultimately pity.  He has no place in the world.

Wrightson drew 47 black ink plates, each one will sear into your memory.

The most inexpensive place to purchase it is Barnes and Noble either as a hardcover or as an e-book.  The illustrations are all over the web, of course, but I would hope that you would want to hold the book as was meant, with the light striking from its surface and not glowing into your retina.  (No, I don't hate technology, in fact, I wrangle it more than I come across!)  http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bernie-wrightsons-frankenstein-mary-shelley/1102472254?ean=9781595822000#productInfoTabs

The Romantics include William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats.  http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/the-romantics