Mary Shelley's original horror novel has rarely had a particularly faithful adaptation. But the image of a man created by science reigns supreme as one of cinema's most malleable storylines. When Mary Shelley wrote “Frankenstein,” a melancholy and gruesome novel about a scientist attempting to create life, as part of a contest with her husband Percy Shelley and writers John Polidori and Lord Byron to pen the scariest horror story, she revolutionized fiction in general. One of the most famous