Mary Shelley tells her Midnight Pals a chilling tale about a brilliant young researcher, Victor, whose arrogance leads him to pursue a deadly ambition. The experiment has been attempted by generations of mad scientists, but never successfully accomplished: the creation of a Frankenstein! Stephen King gets pedantic about terminology. 

Content notes: swearing, raised voices, violence, gore, death including the murder of a child, mention of strangulation. 

CAST 

• Mary Shelley — REBECCA D'SOUZA 
• Edgar Allan Poe/De Lacey — RODRIGO BORGES 
• Clive Barker — SISTER INDICA 
• Stephen King — JASON ROBINSON 
• Dean Koontz — WREN MONTGOMERY 
• HP Lovecraft — ROBIN JOHNSON 

with 

• Victor Frankenstein — DOMINIC RYE 
• The Monster — CANAVAN CONNOLLY 
• The Bride — BETH LINDLY 
• Professor Griffin — ANNA LAZAREV 
• Professor Waldman — BRAD BARNES 
• Dr Krempe — DAVID COURT 
• Agatha — LIETTHYS 
• Captain Walton — LOU SUTCLIFFE 
• Olaf — DEXTER HOWARD 
• additional voices — LORETTA CHANG, MERCEDES HESSELROTH, EVE MORRIS, ADAM ROBINSON 

Episode written and produced by Robin Johnson, loosely based on Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and its various adaptations. Script edited by Bitter Karella. Music by Robin Johnson. Daisy McNamara was an audio consultant. Material based on existing works is used for parody and comment. 

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is often cited as the first science fiction novel and is certainly one of the most important and influential horror novels ever written. Shelley wrote it at the age of 18 (THAT'S LESS THAN 19) as part of a ghost-story writing competition with her pals. It has been adapted to stage and screen countless times, perhaps most notably in James Whale's 1931 film adaptation starring Boris Karloff as the trope-codifying flat-headed monster. The original novel is in the public domain and can be found on Project Gutenberg at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41445

A transcript of this episode can be found at https://midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/s01e01-the-tale-of-the-frankenstein/transcript

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