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Look at her, Shelley. Can you believe that
lovely brow conceived of Frankenstein?
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A monster created from
cadavers out of rifled graves.
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- Isn't it astonishing?
- I don't know why you should think so.
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What do you expect?
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Such an audience needs something
stronger than a pretty little love story.
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So why shouldn't I write of monsters?
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No wonder Murray's refused to publish
the book. His public would be shocked.
:03:26
It will be published, I think.
:03:28
Then, darling, you will have
much to answer for.
:03:31
The publishers did not see that
my purpose was to write a moral lesson
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of the punishment that befell
a mortal man who dared to emulate God.
:03:41
Whatever your purpose was, I take great
relish in savouring each separate horror.
:03:46
I roll them over on my tongue.
:03:48
Don't, Lord Byron.
Don't remind me of it tonight.
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What a setting in that
churchyard to begin with!
:03:55
The sobbing women, the first clod of earth
on the coffin. That was a pretty chill.
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Frankenstein and the dwarf stealing
the body out of its new-made grave.
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Cutting the hanged man down from
the gallows, where he swung in the wind.
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The cunning of Frankenstein
in his mountain laboratory,
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picking dead men apart and
building up a human monster
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so fearful and so horrible that only
a half-crazed brain could have devised.
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And then the murders,
the little child who drowned.
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Henry Frankenstein himself
thrown from the top of the burning mill
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by the very monster he had created.
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And it was these fragile white fingers
that penned the nightmare.
:04:38
Ah! You've made me prick myself, Byron.
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It's bleeding.
:04:44
There, there. I do think it a shame, Mary,
to end your story quite so suddenly.
:04:50
That wasn't the end at all. Would you
like to hear what happened after that?
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I feel like telling it.
:04:57
It's a perfect night for mystery and horror.