Mad Scientist Horror Books
73 horror books that use the mad scientist trope — genius that crosses a line nature (or God) drew. Top picks: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), The Invisible Man and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1875).
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley
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The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818 text)
Mary Shelley

Jaws
Peter Benchley

Poems
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dean Koontz's Frankenstein
Dean Koontz, Kevin J. Anderson

The three impostors or The transmutations
Arthur Machen

Into the Drowning Deep
Mira Grant

White Shark
Peter Benchley

The Monstrumologist
Richard Yancey

Goosebumps Most Wanted - Frankenstein's Dog
Robert Lawrence Stine

The Dead Town
Dean Koontz

Frankenstein
Dean Koontz

Psychlone
Greg Bear

Blasphemy
Douglas Preston

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
Kiersten White

Novels (Congo / Eaters of the Dead / Sphere)
Michael Crichton

Frankenstein
Jason Cobley, Mary Shelley

Phantom of Blood Alley
Stewart, Paul, Chris Riddell
Frankenstein Notebooks
Robinson, Charles E.

In Frankenstein's shadow
Chris Baldick

Visions
Eric Walters

Mad Scientists : An Anthology of Fantasy and Horror
Stuart David Schiff
Making the Monster
Kathryn Harkup

Deep Black Sea and Dark Tide Rising
David M. Salkin

Murdering to Dissect
Tim Marshall

The bedside, bathtub & armchair companion to Frankenstein
Carol J. Adams, Douglas Buchanan

The Monsters
Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler

Frankenkids
Annie Graves

Mary Shelley's Monster
Martin Tropp

Frankenstein
Deborah Tempest, Mary Shelley

In search of Frankenstein
Radu Florescu

Natural Selection
Dave Freedman

Bloom's Guides - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Harold Bloom

The Science Fair Is Freaky!
Jack Chabert

CliffsNotes Shelley's Frankenstein
Jeff Coghill

Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Harold Bloom

Frankenstein, Creation and Monstrosity
Stephen Bann

The Frankenstein notebooks
Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Christopher Small

Approaches to teaching Shelley's Frankenstein
Stephen C. Behrendt

Endurance of Frankenstein
George Levine, Knoepflmacher, U. C.

Mary Shelley and Frankenstein
William Veeder

Frankenstein
Bethany Snyder

Readings on Frankenstein
Don Nardo

Mary Shelley
Nicholas Marsh

Frankenstein
Harold Bloom

Bloom's Notes - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Harold Bloom

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Kevin Kelly, M.F.A.

The modern Frankenstein
Ray Hammond

Bloom's Reviews - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Harold Bloom

Mary Shelley
Harold Bloom

The Endurance of Frankenstein
George Lewis Levine, Knoepflmacher, U. C.

Scientific attitudes in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Samuel Holmes Vasbinder

Making Monstrous
Fred Botting
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Katherine Newey
Frankenstein's Creation
David Ketterer

Frankenstein
J. Smith
Benjamin Franklinstein meets Thomas Deadison
Matthew McElligott

A Routledge literary sourcebook on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Timothy Morton

Mary Shelley
Berthold Schoene-Harwood
The Frankenstein file
Peter Haining

Frankenstein
Fred Botting

In Search of Frankenstein Exploring The
Radu Florescu

The Monster in the Mirror
Mary K. Patterson Thornburg

Frankenstein
Mary Lowe-Evans
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Frankenstein [adaptation]
Alison Leonard, Mike Perkins
Mary Shelley & Frankenstein
William R. Veeder

The Frankenstein legend: a tribute to Mary Shelley and Boris Karloff
Donald F. Glut

Ariel Like a Harpy
Small, Christopher.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Janet Rosenthal

Frankenstein
Anjana Sharma