Frankenstein in Literature

Novels

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley, 1818

The Monster Men, Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1913

La Tour de Frankenstein (The Tower of Frankenstein), Jean-Claude Carrière, 1957

Le Pas de Frankenstein (The Step of Frankenstein), Jean-Claude Carrière, 1957

La Nuit de Frankenstein (The Night of Frankenstein), Jean-Claude Carrière, 1957

Le Sceau de Frankenstein (The Seal of Frankenstein), Jean-Claude Carrière, 1957

Frankenstein Rȏde (Frankenstein Prowls), Jean-Claude Carrière, 1958

La Cave de Frankenstein (The Cellar of Frankenstein), Jean-Claude Carrière, 1959
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick, 1968

The Frankenstein Wheel, Paul W. Fairman, 1972

Frankenstein Unbound, Brian Aldiss, 1973

The Cross of Frankenstein, Robert J. Myers, 1975

The Slave of Frankenstein, Robert J. Myers, 1976

Frankenstein’s Aunt, Allan Rune Petterson, 1978

The Frankenstein Papers, Fred Saberhagen, 1986

Frankenstein (Elementary Level), retold by Margaret Tarner, 1986

Frankenstein’s Aunt Returns, Allan Rune Petterson, 1989
Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, 1990

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Novelization, Leonore Fleischer, 1994
The Lost World, Michael Crichton, 1995

Frankenstein According to Spike Milligan, Spike Milligan, 1997

Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein (series), Dean Koontz, 2005-2011

Prodigal Son, 2005

City of Night, 2005

Dead and Alive, 2009

Lost Souls, 2010

The Dead Town, 2011

Frankenstein Resurrected, Joseph Covino Jr., 2005

The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, Peter Ackroyd, 2008

Son of Terror: Frankenstein Continued, William A. Chanler, 2017

Children’s Books

Frankenstein Moved in on the Fourth Floor, Elizabeth Levy, 1979
Frankenstein's Cat, Curtis Jobling, 2001

Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist (series), Jim Benton, 2003-2008

Lunch Walks Among Us, 2003

Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid, 2003

The Invisible Fran, 2004

The Fran that Time Forgot, 2005

Frantastic Voyage, 2005

The Fran with Four Brains, 2006

The Frandidate, 2008

Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich, Adam Rex, 2006

Frankenstein Takes the Cake, Adam Rex, 2008

The Monster’s Monster, Patrick McDonnell, 2012

Frankenstein: A Monstrous Parody, Rick Walton & Nathan Hale, 2012

Robot Zombie Frankenstein!, Annette Simon, 2012

YA Books

AngelMonster, Veronica Bennett, 2007

This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, Kenneth Oppel, 2012

Hideous Love: The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein, Stephanie Hemphill, 2013

Short Stories

“The Monster Made by Man; or, The Punishment of Presumption,” G. Herbert, 1826

“Like Frankenstein,” Dylan Miller, 2011

Adam Frankenstein: A Collection of Short Stories, Sheila English, 2016

“Mary Shelley’s League of Supernatural Hunters: Origins of Adam”

“Frankenstein’s Companion”

“The Therapist and the Dead”

“Adam Frankenstein, U.S. Marshall”

Poetry

“Frankenstein,” Alexander Anderson, 1873

“Dear Dr. Frankenstein,” Jericho Brown, 2014