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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein | Peter Ackroyd
11 posts | 6 read | 9 to read
An unlikely friendship between a pair of 19th-century Oxford students, researcher Victor Frankenstein and poet Percy Bysshe Shelly, is marked by disparate religious beliefs that lead to Victor's grisly experimentations with corpses. Reprint. A New York Times Notable Book.
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booklover3258
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For my review of this book, visit my Youtube Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/U1lJRIiZOVs

Enjoy!

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rwmg
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After an ordinary university career in Ingolstadt, Victor Frankenstein moves to England where he meets Percy Bysshe Shelley and takes up the studies for which he is best known.

I wondered at times what the author was bringing to the story that wasn't in Mary Shelley's version apart from Frankenstein's rather meta meetings with Shelley, his two wives, Byron, and Polidori. And then I hit the ending. Now there was a twist I didn't see coming.

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If I can't take my books, I'm not going

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Bookworm54
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My choice for #MonsterMadness2017 #DrJekyllAndMrHyde is Victor Frankenstein in The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein.

I will post a spoiler below in the comments, but let‘s just say he has a split personality...

Photo is from the BBC TV series Jekyll. If you guys haven‘t watched it, it is amazing! I only wish there had been a second season 😖

Bookworm54 SPOILER: the story initially follows the same idea as the original Frankenstein. Victor is interested in anatomy and becomes obsessed with the idea of creating life. He experiments and brings a corpse to life, which then wreaks carnage. However, as the story progresses he tries to reverse the experiment, only to discover that the creature never existed, that it was he who murdered his friends, and the monster was only a figment of his imagination. 6y
Ms_T @Bookworm54 This sounds great! 6y
LauraBrook I wish there was a second season too - it was so good! 6y
LibrarianRyan 👍🏻🤓☠️👻 6y
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😱😨😱That ending!

I would definitely recommend this to anyone who enjoys the classic horrors such as Dracula, Frankenstein, Carmilla etc. The writing style is very similar to these classics, with a build up of suspense.

And let me tell you, I did not see the end coming!

#spooktober #spookyreads

(Photo from the film Van Helsing)

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At the risk of boring everyone with all my posts, here is another quote!

I am loving this book! Similar in tone to the original Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (who I think may be a very minor character in this book... maybe there will be a link with the writing of her novel nearer the end?) and again I find myself pitying the creation. A creature wishing to be human and yet finding himself shunned and becoming a monster in an effort to be noticed.

bmsddk Your posts are definitely not boring -- it's fun to see what you have to share!! 😀 7y
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"Then to my utter horror and amazement I realised who it was that stood in the boat and hailed me. The creature came steadily closer, and I could see the lurid yellow hair and the blank grey eyes. Now he held out his arms: his hands were covered in blood."

Spooky! ?

#scaretober #spookyreads

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"had opened, but where before they had been of a blue-green hue they were now grey. The body itself had not been deformed in any way: it was as compact and muscular as before, but it was of a different texture. It looked as if it had been baked. The face still had the remnants of beauty but was now utterly changed in hue, with the curious pattern of wickerwork I had already observed. All this was the work of an instant. I stepped back in horror"

BarbaraTheBibliophage Can't imagine that I've never read this! This quote is making me think I need to start it soon. 🎃🎃🎃 7y
Bookworm54 @BarbaraTheBibliophage the writing style is like this throughout so far. I'm really enjoying it. It's more scientific experimentation and philosophy than 'horror' at the minute. But suitably creepy 🎃💀👻 7y
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BarbaraTheBibliophage I just read Dracula and it's similar in style. More about suspense than gore. 7y
Bookworm54 @BarbaraTheBibliophage I agree! But I love this kind of writing :) 7y
BarbaraTheBibliophage I do too. It's such a change from how books are written today (for the most part)! 7y
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"As I lay in my bed that night, I dreamed that I was being buried, and that my coffin was being slowly lowered into the earth. I seemed to be aware of this without any particular consciousness of dread. But then, as my coffin was settled onto the bed of soil, I became aware that I was not alone. Someone was lying beside me."

#spooktober #spookyoctober

Books_Wine_Repeat 🙈🙈🙈🙈 7y
thegirlwiththelibrarybag What she said ^^^ 7y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Ooooo! Creeeeepy! 👍🏻👻🎃😈 7y
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Some of my October TBR! 😍👻🎃

I'm looking forward to Carrie as I have only ever read Salem's Lot by Stephen King. And god does The Case Book of Victor Frankenstein look amazing!

#libraryhaul

Soubhiville Nice- looks like some creepy reads! 8y
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