Frankenstein

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...