After learning that the legendary story of Frankenstein was based on fact, Medical genius Dr. Burt Winslow recovers and resurrects the legendary undead Frankenstein’s monster only to unleash a torrent of terror on the unsuspecting world as the monster escapes. Making its way across the European countryside, the monster encounters the psychic circus-master Dartani who wishes to use the creature for his own evil revenge, and brainwashes the creature as a deadly pawn rampaging against innocent villagers. This is the first volume in the New Adventures of Frankenstein horror-adventure series by Donald F. Glut (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back)

I can say I loved Frankenstein – Mary Shelley Book a lot more. And even the Dean Koontz versions. Frankenstein: Dead And Alive

The whole concept of “pulp style fiction” suggests action and entertainment taking precedent over literary value, which is fine within limits, but the novel is populated with one dimensional cyphers that it’s impossible to care about. Making matters worse is the fact that our bolt-necked hero isn’t resuscitated until two-thirds of the way through, and when he does finally get up off the laboratory table (sporting a very trendy-for-the-times black turtleneck I hasten to add) he is unable to speak. More often than not, the monster is usually mute in the movies, but having him able to speak here would have opened up a lot of possibilities. The final nail in the coffin, though, is that the book contains some of the clunkiest prose since Snoopy typed the immortal narrative hook “It was a dark and stormy night.”

Though the being’s eyes were shut and concealed behind the heavy lids, the creature’s face seemed to transfix him hypnotically. The being’s straight black lips were pulled back into a feral, perpetual snarl, and Fairfax suddenly felt that they had been frozen while cursing his own name.

Mr. Fairfax finds the original recipe book for the monster and decides to take the 8ft monster back to castle Frankenstein to see what he can find out.

There are stories that this man, this Victor Frankenstein, took parts of corpses and sewed them together, then brought this horror to life. The Monster that he created did not remain long in Ingolstadt, but for the short time it did, it brought only misery, terror and death

Dr Winslow brings the monster back to life, the monster with his twisted steel like arms breaks his bound arms holding him down and escapes into the woods. Frankenstein’s monster will swing a fellow by the legs and smash his brain into a tree trunk, snap another persons spine over his knee, the crunching echoed through the dark forest, choke another one spurting blood out of the eyes, nose and mouth before grabbing another by the legs and using the poor man’s skull to knock five men in a row brains pulverizing skulls. A Halloween moment of the monster disappearing of the castle roof into the water and knowing it is not over.

The body’s skull slammed with deadly force into the skulls of the other men. They staggered for a few moments, too stunned to resist, as the Monster, taking them unawares, brutally ended their lives under a barrage of pounding yellow fists and crushing black boots.Now six battered corpses littered the alley, their blood mingling with the little black pools of filth that settled on the pavement.Six torches fizzled in the water, dying shortly after the men who had once carried them.