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- Date of first publication · January 1, 1818
- Victor Frankenstein was based on a real person: Johann Konrad Dippell, who was a physician and
mad scientist obsessed with creating life through scientific means. His birthplace? Castle Frankenstein, near Darmstadt, Germany.
- As a houseguest of Lord Byron, Mary Shelley was invited to participate in a challenge. Byron, Shelley,
and the other guests set about writing the most frightening story they could. Shelley won; she claimed that her inspiration
came from a vision she'd had, wherein a pale student of science knelt over a body which he had just imbued with artificial
life.
- The Monster has appeared as a Postage Stamp in 1997 and 2002
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