Thursday, November 20, 2025

The 15 best "Frankenstein" retellings

Emily Burack is the Senior News Editor for Town & Country, where she covers entertainment, culture, the royals, and a range of other subjects. Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at Hey Alma, a Jewish culture site.

At Town & Country she tagged fifteen of the best Frankenstein retellings, including:
Eileen M. Hunt’s Artificial Life After Frankenstein is not a retelling; rather, it uses Shelley’s work as a lens to understand the “ethics and politics of making artificial life and intelligence in the twenty-first century.” Hunt is a professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame; Publishers Weekly reviews that her book “succeeds as an impressive and resounding challenge to technology-driven doomsday scenarios, replacing these with a vision of a gentler, kinder future in which humankind preserves both its existence and its best, most humane qualities.”
Read about the other entries on the list.

Also see seven great horror novels inspired by Frankenstein.

--Marshal Zeringue