THOUGH MARY MIGHT HAVE
seen Frankenstein Castle
(shown here) during a 1814
trip to Hesse, Germany, her
novel doesn’t feature a castle.
(Castles wouldn’t be a feature
of the Frankenstein story until
the 1931 movie version.) She
may, however, have been
inspired by the legend of the
castle’s resident alchemist,
Johann Konrad Dippel, who
supposedly tried to bring dead
bodies back to life.
20 LIFE FRANKENSTEIN