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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: A Dark Graphic Novel

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Premise labels used: creation gone wrong, mad scientist, man-made monster, abandonment, revenge, rejection, loneliness, responsibility, dangerous knowledge, ethical science

Setting labels used: 19th century, laboratory, isolated landscapes, gothic setting, scientific setting, epistolary frame

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Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lord Byron, John William Polidori, Percy Bysshe Shelley · 2013

A scientist’s drive to create life leads to an abandoned creation, tragic consequences, and a search for meaning.

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Premise labels: mad science · creation gone wrong · ambition · forbidden knowledge · unnatural life · ethical experiment · created being · abandoned creation · responsibility

Setting labels: Swiss scenery · England · London · Oxford · 19th century · romantic era · gothic atmosphere · fictionalized reality · laboratory · mountains

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Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Text

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 2025

An original 1818 Gothic classic where a scientist creates life, then faces the human cost of abandonment.

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Premise labels: mad science · creation gone wrong · scientific ambition · creator and creation · abandoned creation · moral responsibility · playing god · monstrous outsider · unchecked progress

Setting labels: 18th century · Europe · Arctic · North Pole · natural landscapes · laboratory · gothic setting · travel narrative

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Gris Grimly's Frankenstein

Gris Grimly, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 2013

Mary Shelley’s classic is reimagined as a lush graphic adaptation, blending abridged text with eerie, detailed illustrations.

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Premise labels: mad scientist · created monster · creator and creation · abandoned creation · moral dilemma · playing God

Setting labels: Gothic · scientific experiment · historical atmosphere · icy wasteland

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Distance: 0.1856

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The Glass Scientists: Volume One

S.H. Cotugno, Sabrina Cotugno · 2023 · The Glass Scientists

In Victorian London, a public-facing scientist builds a haven for “rogue” minds while a dangerous secret and new arrivals threaten it.

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Premise labels: mad science · rogue scientists · secret identity · buried secrets · public image · misunderstood monsters · found family · scientific haven · social acceptance · identity conflict

Setting labels: Victorian London · 19th-century London · alternate history · gothic world · steampunk London · scientific society · laboratory setting · historical fantasy setting

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1950

A Victorian doctor’s chemical experiment splits off his darkest self, and the consequences spread through a shadowy London.

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Premise labels: dual identity · good and evil · inner self · forbidden experiment · scientific hubris · split personality · moral duality · hidden self

Setting labels: Victorian London · late nineteenth century · foggy streets · urban gothic · scientific laboratory · England

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Frankenstein The Graphic Novel

Jason Cobley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Joe Sutliff Sanders · 2009

A graphic retelling of Frankenstein follows a scientist, his creation, and the tragic fallout of bringing life to the dead.

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Premise labels: scientific creation · man-made life · creator and creation · monstrous consequence · frozen isolation

Setting labels: North Pole · frozen sea · Europe · Geneva · university setting · scientific setting · Gothic setting · 19th century · historical setting · fictional reality

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The Birth-Mark

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1843

A scientist fixates on his wife’s small facial birthmark and tries to remove it, with tragic consequences.

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Premise labels: perfection obsession · beauty flaw · scientific intervention · marital fixation · man vs nature

Setting labels: 19th century · domestic setting · scientific laboratory · American · fictional realist

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Distance: 0.2293

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From Beyond

H.P. Lovecraft · 1934

A scientist’s device opens perception to hidden planes of existence, drawing him and his friend into terror.

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Premise labels: mad scientist · limited senses · alternate perception · hidden reality · interdimensional horror · forbidden knowledge · scientific hubris · experimental machine · cosmic terror

Setting labels: Providence · attic laboratory · house setting · early 20th century · urban gothic · alternate reality

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1875

A respectable lawyer investigates a sinister connection between a doctor and his violent secret alter ego.

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Premise labels: dual identity · doppelgänger · split self · secret alter ego · mad scientist · self-experimentation · good vs evil · inner darkness · repressed desires

Setting labels: Victorian London · late 19th century · urban gothic · foggy city · respectable society · gaslit streets

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The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

E.B. Hudspeth · 2013

A faux-historical biography and illustrated atlas follow a doctor whose obsession with mythic anatomy leads him into madness.

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Premise labels: mad scientist · fictional biography · alternate history · forged manuscript · lost work · mythical anatomy · evolutionary theory · body transformation · grave robbing · scientific obsession

Setting labels: late 19th century · Philadelphia · Victorian era · gaslit city · medical academy · carnival circuit · circus sideshow · cabinet of curiosities · historical setting · gaslamp atmosphere

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Hyde

Daniel Levine, Robert Louis Stevenson · 2014

A gothic retelling of Jekyll and Hyde from Hyde’s perspective, exposing hidden motives, abuse, and a fractured mind.

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Premise labels: villain perspective · psychological retelling · dual identity · altered self · secret self · unreliable narrator · sympathetic villain · origin story · medical experiment · self-experimentation · hidden past · framed for crimes · competing personalities · mind-body split

Setting labels: Victorian London · London slums · gothic London · medical laboratory · doctor's cabinet · 19th century · historical setting · urban gothic · high-low social divide

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La mosca - Relatos del antimundo

George Langelaan · 2001 · Antología Luis de Caralt

A scientist’s matter-transmission experiment goes horribly wrong, and a murder confession hides the reason.

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Premise labels: scientist gone wrong · matter transmission · forbidden experiment · murder mystery · body transformation · scientific hubris

Setting labels: France · French setting · scientific laboratory · factory

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Distance: 0.2591

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