The Shelleys and Byron whiled away part of a rainy summer in Switzerland reading and writing ghost stories; Frankenstein was Mary Shelley’s contribution. But Frankenstein is more than a great ghost story. Its theme—that we do not know the monsters our minds can create—is perhaps even more valid today. This program contains clips from the Boris Karloff film, the prototype of movie monsters, and authors Ann Rice and Ann Mellor add their insights into this book. A Discovery University Production. (50 minutes)

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