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The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times startling science and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece Frankenstein.Montillo recounts how—at the intersection of the Romantic Age and the Industrial Revolution—Shelley’s Victor Frankenstein was inspired by actual scientists of the period: curious and daring iconoclasts who were obsessed with the inner workings of the human body and how it might be reanimated after death.With true-life tales of grave robbers ghoulish experiments and the ultimate in macabre research—human reanimation—The Lady and Her Monsters is a brilliant exploration of the creation of Frankenstein Mary Shelley’s horror classic.