Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was born in 1816 on the cold, wet shores of Lake Geneva, under thundery, leaden skies. It was the “year without a summer” when the eruption of a volcano in ...

in which he animated dead frogs by applying electrical currents to the muscles. Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein could have been an inspiration for the name of Dr. Frankenstein. Kratzenstein began ...