Alissa Burger is Associate Professor of English at Culver-Stockton College, USA.

Much like the Creature at its heart, this study is assembled from heterogenous sources. Cinema, graphic narratives, board games and video games, among other popular culture materials, all furnish the author with the necessary tools to trace the complex evolution and adaptational history of an archetypal monster whose afterlives have proven as colourful and significant as Mary Shelley’s original novel. Remaking the Monster should appeal to transmedia and Gothic researchers.

• IntroductionPART I: THEMES1. Boris Karloff as the Creature 2. Encountering the Creature 3. A Community of Monsters 4. Gothic Prestige 5. The Desirable CreaturePART II: FORMATS6. New Visions of the Creature in Graphic Narratives 7. The Animated Creature 8. Board Games 9. Video Games 10. Creating the CreatureConclusionAbout the AuthorIndex

Alissa Burger is Associate Professor of English at Culver-Stockton College, USA.

Much like the Creature at its heart, this study is assembled from heterogenous sources. Cinema, graphic narratives, board games and video games, among other popular culture materials, all furnish the author with the necessary tools to trace the complex evolution and adaptational history of an archetypal monster whose afterlives have proven as colourful and significant as Mary Shelley’s original novel. Remaking the Monster should appeal to transmedia and Gothic researchers.

• IntroductionPART I: THEMES1. Boris Karloff as the Creature 2. Encountering the Creature 3. A Community of Monsters 4. Gothic Prestige 5. The Desirable CreaturePART II: FORMATS6. New Visions of the Creature in Graphic Narratives 7. The Animated Creature 8. Board Games 9. Video Games 10. Creating the CreatureConclusionAbout the AuthorIndex

Alissa Burger is Associate Professor of English at Culver-Stockton College, USA.

Much like the Creature at its heart, this study is assembled from heterogenous sources. Cinema, graphic narratives, board games and video games, among other popular culture materials, all furnish the author with the necessary tools to trace the complex evolution and adaptational history of an archetypal monster whose afterlives have proven as colourful and significant as Mary Shelley’s original novel. Remaking the Monster should appeal to transmedia and Gothic researchers.

• IntroductionPART I: THEMES1. Boris Karloff as the Creature 2. Encountering the Creature 3. A Community of Monsters 4. Gothic Prestige 5. The Desirable CreaturePART II: FORMATS6. New Visions of the Creature in Graphic Narratives 7. The Animated Creature 8. Board Games 9. Video Games 10. Creating the CreatureConclusionAbout the AuthorIndex