Frankenstein: Mary Shelley

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`The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open…`
Victor Frankenstein`s monster is stitched together from the limbs of the dead, taken from `the dissecting room and the slaughter-house`. The result is a grotesque being.