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Top 10 Mad Scientists
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No. 01 - Victor Frankenstein

He robbed graves, cut up corpses, sewed the pieces together and then brought the results to life. If he wasn't mad, Victor (Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley, 1818) was certainly in need of a long vacation.

In Mary Shelley's book the creature never gets a name — it's always monster, fiend, devil and so on — but in popular culture maker and monster get confused; perhaps showing where the real horror at the heart of the book lies.

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