Finding a voice for this thing that's sort of in between the two - they're not even close! - trying to get them to meet in the middle is quite a stretch. So I've got some flashback sequences lifted from the novel, and a character who visually, at least, is much more like Karloff's Frankenstein. Even though I read Mary Shelley's novel and I love what she did, the Frankenstein monster to me is always going to be Boris Karloff - specifically Boris Karloff in Bride of Frankenstein. But when I wrote the back cover copy for that book, it was just funnier to say "the Frankenstein monster." And somewhere along the line, the title "Frankenstein Underground" popped into my head before there was a story to go with it. When I first wrote that character - I designed him also - for Richard Corben in House of the Living Dead, it wasn't meant to be the Frankenstein monster. The shambling monster with bolts sticking out of him is such an iconic type of monster.
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