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1) Frankenstein
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English
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The story of Dr. Frankenstein and the obsessive experiment that leads to the creation of a monstrous and deadly creature.
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English
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"Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her great uncle disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the Arctic, but she doesn't know why or how... The 1850s are a time of discovery, and London is ablaze with the latest scientific theories and debates, especially when a spectacular new exhibition of dinosaur sculptures opens at the Crystal Palace. Mary is keen to make her name in this world of science alongside her geologist husband,...
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1 videodisc (approximately 123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during child birth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a creature which Frankenstein has put together from the remains of corpses. The creature turns into a monster when Dr. Frankenstein rejects him. Sticking close to the original novel, the film guides us through the story of Frankenstein's...
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1 videodisc (183 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Considered by many to be the finest film version of this classic tale. The doctors team up to create monsters from dead body parts. A truly chilling and epic take on the story that has frightened generation after generation!
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208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
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English
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On New Year's Day 1818, Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was first published in an anonymous three-volume edition of 500 copies. Some thought the book was too radical in implication. A few found the central theme intriguing ... no-one predicted its success. This book, celebrating the two hundredth birthday of Frankenstein, traces, in colourful and engaging ways, the journey of Shelley's Frankenstein from limited edition literature to the bloodstream...
8) Frankenstein
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v, 152 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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An abriged version of the novel in which a monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
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350 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison; Victor's engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victor's first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewed--and tested--by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered....
10) Frankenstein
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A mad scientist attempts to create a race of genetic super-beings to replace humanity.
11) Frankenstein
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1 videodisc (71 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Frankenstein is the greatest horror film of all time. Dr. Frankenstein dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster in his laboratory; but his dreams of perfection are thwarted when the monster becomes an uncontrollable beast.
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lxxix, 352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
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English
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"'Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale that combines tragedy, morality, social commentary, and a thoughtful examination of the very nature of knowledge,' writes ... author Leslie S. Klinger in his foreword to The New Annotated Frankenstein. Despite its undeniable status as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written, Mary Shelley's novel is often reductively dismissed as the wellspring for tacky monster...
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105 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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"Your favorite characters are now part of the Who HQ library! One of the most iconic monsters of all time comes to life in our What Is the Story Of? series. From his origins in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, through his many movie portrayals in the twentieth century, Frankenstein is one of the most recognizable characters in the world. His iconic look is a go-to Halloween costume for kids and adults alike. But how did the mad scientist and his creation...
14) Frankenstein
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32 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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English
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"A ghastly green figure with bolts in its neck lurches toward a helpless victim. It's Frankenstein! Popular culture transformed Mary Shelley's infamous character into a cartoonish caricature. In fact, many people are surprised to learn that Frankenstein isn't the name of the fictional monster at all, but the name of its creator, Victor Frankenstein. It's time to revisit this gothic tale through the eerie pages of this beautifully illustrated graphic...
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Complete Crepax volume 1
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463 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 34 cm.
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English
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man, and the legend, we know today.
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292 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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The events of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein unfold from the perspective of Elizabeth Lavenza, who is adopted as a child by the Frankensteins as a companion for their volatile son Victor.
Elizabeth Lavenza has been starved and beaten by her "caregiver" until she is brought to the home of Victor Frankenstein, an unsmiling, solitary boy who has everything -- except a friend. To escape from misery, Elizabeth does everything she can to make herself indispensable....
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3 videodiscs (435 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Sir Malcolm is an explorer who has lost his daughter Mina to the city's creatures, and he will do whatever is needed to get her back and to right past wrongs. Working with him is clairvoyant Vanessa Ives, who was Mina's childhood friend. She recruits American Ethan Chandler to help locate Mina and slay monsters. Dorian Gray, Victor Frankenstein, and characters from Dracula join this core of original characters in a dark and brutal quest to save a...
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