Do readers need to read Mary Shelleys original to really enjoy Marys Monster?
WL: No, definitely not, but I hope it will get some people to read the original. The Monster gives enough of an overview to get people familiar with the important stuff. But, that’s a key part of the book. Mary heard a story from Lord Byron, and she made up most of Frankenstein. And somebody wasn’t happy, and the book goes from there. Q: What made you write Mary’s Monster? WL: Outside of being a Frankenstein fan? Well, like I said. I wrote a whole chunk of the book way back when, where the Monster tells this alternate version of what was in the original novel, and then this character just kind of came alive to me. When you get a character that comes to life, you don’t have much choice in the matter. You kind of have to see where it’s going to turn out. But part of me wanted to redeem this icon from my childhood. Frankenstein’s Monster is on cereal boxes, now. I think everybody’s jaded about him. I was watching a documentary about John Barrymore recently, and when he died, Harpo Marx sa
