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What is the link between Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein and the history and myth surrounding the barons Frankenstein - a respected German noble family that inhabited the Castle Frankenstein on the top of Magnet mountain near Darmstadt from the early Middle Ages. All is explored in this fascinating and highly detailed book by an expert on Eastern European History author Radu Florescu leaves no stone unturned in his search for this legendary monster.

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A follow-up of Florescu's In Search of Dracula (written with Raymond T. McNally, 1973). Frankenstein buffs will probably find the answers to most imaginable and some unimaginable questions; the Rumanian scholar, writing a somewhat dubious English, touches all bases from the circumstances of the original book's composition to a comprehensive filmography up to Mel Brooks. There are portraits of Mary Shelley's parents (William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft) and the Shelley circle, speculations on Frankenstein's possible connection with an alchemist named Konrad Dippel, who hung out in the early 18th century at Castle Frankenstein on the Rhine (which Florescu claims the Shelleys must have visited), and much concocting of mysteries ( Is it mere coincidence that. . . ? ). Some good solid information, some enjoyable schlock, a generous measure of quasi-scholarly batfeathers. (Kirkus Reviews)

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