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These books are ranked using the premise + themes labels extracted for Gris Grimly's Frankenstein. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

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

Themes labels used: isolation, responsibility, hubris, science and morality, abandonment, loneliness, humanity, consequences, compassion, identity, guilt, loss, love, revenge, justice, sympathy for the monster

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Cover of Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

Themes labels: ambition · isolation · moral responsibility · unchecked science · creation and destruction · loneliness · rejection · otherness · identity · humanity · monstrosity · nature vs nurture · parenthood · ethics · compassion · empathy · hubris · justice · grief · vengeance · social prejudice · class difference

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.0968

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Cover of Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

Themes labels: humanity · ethics of science · hubris · responsibility · othering · isolation · loneliness · rejection · prejudice · ambition · good and evil · monstrosity · social influence · knowledge and consequences · mourning · revenge · identity · acceptance · nature of evil

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.1049

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Cover of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: A Dark Graphic Novel by Sergio A. Sierra

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: A Dark Graphic Novel

Sergio A. Sierra · 2012

A dark graphic adaptation of Frankenstein follows a scientist’s fatal experiment and the abandoned creature it unleashes.

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

Themes labels: responsibility · ambition · scientific ethics · humanity · rejection · loneliness · compassion · identity · nature vs science · knowledge and consequence · grief · guilt · revenge · alienation · morality

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.1115

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Cover of Frankenstein The Graphic Novel by Jason Cobley

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

Themes labels: acceptance · tolerance · understanding · companionship · love · scientific responsibility · consequences · difference and rejection · loneliness · kindness vs cruelty · nature vs nurture · appearance and judgment · moral complexity · revenge · humanity

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.1577

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Cover of A Cold Legacy by Megan Shepherd

A Cold Legacy

Megan Shepherd · 2024 · The Madman’s Daughter

A fugitive young woman hides in a Scottish manor where gothic secrets, mad science, and family legacy collide.

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Premise labels: mad science · forbidden experiment · play God · life and death · family legacy · inheritance of madness · safe haven with secrets · manor mystery · haunted estate · scientific experimentation · reanimation · moral dilemma

Themes labels: morality · ethics of science · identity · self-determination · family legacy · madness · grief · love versus duty · playing God · life and death · humanity · redemption · fate · choice · sacrifice · good versus evil

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.1931

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Cover of City of Night by Dean Koontz

City of Night

Dean Koontz, Ed Gorman · 2005 · Dean Koontz's Frankenstein

A rogue creator unleashes a perfected new race in modern New Orleans, while a monster and two detectives fight back.

Why this is here

Premise labels: Frankenstein retelling · mad scientist · engineered beings · human replacement · monster vs creator · apocalypse threat · detectives vs conspiracy · reign of terror

Themes labels: humanity · identity · control · free will · creation ethics · playing God · replacement · corruption · sympathy for monsters · good vs evil · parenthood · evolution · apocalypse · power and hubris · autonomy · what makes human

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Distance: 0.1981

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Cover of Sweet Tooth, Vol. 2: In Captivity by Jeff Lemire

Sweet Tooth, Vol. 2: In Captivity

Jeff Lemire · 2010 · Sweet Tooth

In a plague-ravaged world, captive hybrid children and a mercenary’s past reveal new clues to a terrifying mystery.

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Premise labels: plague cure · hybrid children · captivity · survival · post-apocalyptic world · military-scientific compound · origin mystery · backstory reveal

Themes labels: survival · loss · guilt · betrayal · redemption · identity · parentage · morality of science · exploitation · innocence · hope · dehumanization · trauma

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Distance: 0.1982

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Cover of Stitch: Reimagining Frankenstein by Pádraig Kenny

Stitch: Reimagining Frankenstein

Pádraig Kenny · 2025

A gentle gothic retelling of Frankenstein follows a created boy who leaves his castle home to save his friend and learn what makes a person.

Why this is here

Premise labels: Frankenstein retelling · created beings · finding place · monster identity · outcast protagonist · escape journey · scientific experimentation · world rejection · search for friend

Themes labels: acceptance · difference · diversity · humanity · empathy · kindness · friendship · grief · loss · death · identity · belonging · prejudice · appearance vs character · outsiderhood · bullying · ableism · social exclusion · what makes a person · ethics of science · morality · self-discovery · purpose · resilience · forgiveness · courage · truth · accepting self

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Distance: 0.1986

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Cover of X-23: Innocence Lost by Craig Kyle

X-23: Innocence Lost

Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost · 2006 · X-23 (2005)

A young female clone is raised as a living weapon, and her creator’s remorse shapes a brutal escape story.

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Premise labels: origin story · clone creation · child assassin · weaponization · escape story · genetic experiment · coming of age

Themes labels: lost innocence · trauma · identity · humanity · free will · control · abuse · exploitation · misogyny · science ethics · responsibility · greed · violence · coming of age · motherhood · dehumanization · redemption · survival

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Distance: 0.2022

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Cover of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle by Harold Bloom

Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle

Harold Bloom · 2002

A writer’s research on an atomic scientist leads him into an invented religion, a doomed island, and a world-ending secret.

Why this is here

Premise labels: science and religion · apocalyptic fallout · technological danger · invented religion · research quest · end of the world

Themes labels: science ethics · religion critique · war critique · human stupidity · apocalypse · meaninglessness · existentialism · technology · politics · social delusion · survival instinct · loneliness · fate · moral responsibility · mankind

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.2047

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Cover of The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon

The Archive Undying

Emma Mieko Candon · 2023 · The Downworld Sequence

A traumatized, unkillable relic is dragged back into a ruined world of AI gods, mechs, devotion, and dangerous secrets.

Why this is here

Premise labels: AI gods · corrupted AI · giant robots · mecha fiction · post-apocalyptic world · reluctant return · immortal protagonist · devotion · religious trauma · body horror

Themes labels: personhood · autonomy · devotion · faith · religious trauma · identity · selfhood · power and control · resistance · survival · transhumanism · memory · trauma · grief · possession · consumption · corruption · consent · obligation · love and horror

Semantic match: ranked by premise + themes

Distance: 0.2049

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Cover of After God, Vol. 1 by Sumi Eno

After God, Vol. 1

Sumi Eno · 2024 · アフターゴッド [After God]

A researcher and a high schooler cross paths in a god-ravaged Japan, where hidden secrets may hold the key to survival.

Why this is here

Premise labels: god invasion · research institute · human resistance · quarantined zones · search for missing friend · secret power

Themes labels: morality · ethics · sacrifice · revenge · humanity · agency · divinity · faith · violence · survival · identity · human-monster boundary · grief · dependency · philosophy · mental illness · power

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Distance: 0.2064

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