Mary Shelley's Frankenstein opened up a whole new world of science fiction for readers

when it was published in 1818.

For nearly two centuries, her story of a man-made monster being brought to life through medical

experimentation has inspired hundreds of movies and books, countless theological and moral

debates, and fear of what terrors science can create when left to its own unchecked

curiosity and greed.

Did you ever wonder what inspired 18-year-old Mary Shelley to write a gothic horror novel?

That story has all the earmarks of a modern-day thriller filled with illicit sex, free

love, rumors of drugs, adultery, a candlelit villa on an alpine lake, a very haunted

castle, a mad doctor, a wild dream, two famous English authors, the ghost of a dragon slaying

night, anatomical experiments, sex and a cemetery, and more, and it all started in a little

bookstore in London's East End.

Add to this our exclusive interview with Rob Demarest, the paranormal expert who brought

his ghost hunter's international team to the dark mountains of the Bavarian Alps to investigate

Frankenstein Castle in Germany just a few years ago, and we've got a whopper of a story

for you.

Better buckle up.

It's going to be a wild ride.

The story of Frankenstein, first published in 1820, written by Mary Shelley, was the first

of the science fiction and horror novels genre and a huge success.

Shelley's protagonist, the hero of her story, is Dr. Frankenstein, an educated man who

creates a man-like creature for the sake of advancing science, a tall, misshapen, half

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