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

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

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

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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

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

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Distance: 0.1351

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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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Distance: 0.1369

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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 2018

A scientist creates life from dead matter, then faces the human and moral consequences of abandoning his creation.

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Premise labels: creator and creation · playing God · scientific ambition · artificial life · creation gone wrong · othered outsider · revenge pursuit · abandonment · loneliness · responsibility

Setting labels: Arctic · Swiss Alps · Geneva · Scotland · Europe · early 19th century · Romantic era · Gothic landscape · isolated frontier · natural world

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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: 0.1736

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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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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 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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Distance: 0.2162

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Our Hideous Progeny

C.E. McGill · 2023

In 1850s England, a sharp-tongued woman scientist uncovers a family secret and pursues a dangerous, life-making experiment.

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Premise labels: Frankenstein retelling · Frankenstein sequel · scientific ambition · female scientist · queer twist · feminist retelling · paleontology · play god · creation of life · dinosaur creation · academic recognition · career struggle · family secrets · forbidden knowledge · scientific rivalry

Setting labels: 1850s · Victorian era · Victorian England · London · Scotland · Inverness · Isle of Wight · Crystal Palace · Arctic · mid-Victorian · historical · scientific revolution · paleontology boom · Gothic setting · rural England

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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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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

Setting labels: Scottish moors · remote estate · gothic manor · Victorian sensibility · Victorian-era London · isolated house · laboratory setting · wild moors · historical setting · alternate gothic reality

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Distance: 0.2383

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Zacharius Usta

Jules Verne · 2018

A famed clockmaker’s pride turns into a crisis of faith when the watches he made begin to fail mysteriously.

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Premise labels: inventor downfall · pride and fall · clockmaker protagonist · disappearing function · soul bound to creation · mortality crisis · immortality quest · science versus faith · man versus God · technological hubris · Faustian bargain · moral allegory

Setting labels: Geneva · Switzerland · Rhone island · gothic atmosphere · workshop setting

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The Invisible Man

H.G. Wells · 1897

A reclusive scientist makes himself invisible, only to spiral into fear, crime, and violent ruin.

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Premise labels: invisibility · mad scientist · science experiment gone wrong · power corrupts · wanted criminal

Setting labels: English countryside · rural inn · village life · England · late 19th century · winter · small town · British countryside

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Distance: 0.2412

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