TY - BOOK AU - Ackroyd,Peter TI - The casebook of Victor Frankenstein: a novel SN - 9780385530842 (alk. paper) AV - PR6051.C64 C37 2008 U1 - 823.914 FRA 22nd PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Nan A. Talese KW - Frankenstein, Victor KW - Frankenstein's Monster KW - Shelley, Percy Bysshe, KW - Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, KW - Byron, George Gordon Byron, KW - Polidori, John William, KW - Scientists KW - Fiction KW - Monsters KW - England KW - Social life and customs KW - 19th century KW - Psychological fiction N2 - As Victor Frankenstein begins conducting anatomical experiments to reanimate the dead, he at first uses corpses supplied by the coroner. But these specimens prove imperfect for Victor's purposes. Moving his makeshift laboratory to a deserted pottery factory in Limehouse, he makes contact with the Doomsday men--the resurrectionists--whose grisly methods put Frankenstein in great danger as he works feverishly to bring life to the terrifying creature that will bear his name for eternity ER -