An exploration of the treatment of Mary Shelley'sFrankensteinin popular art and culture, this book examines adaptations in film, comics, theatre, art, video-games and more, to illuminate how the novel's myth has evolved in the two centuries since its publication. Divided into four sections,The Afterlives of Frankensteinconsiders the cultural dialogues Mary Shelley's novel has engaged with in specific historical moments; the extraordinary examples of howFrankensteinhas suffused our cultural consciousness; and how theFrankensteinmyth has become something to play with, a locus for reinvention and imaginative interpretation. In the final part, artists respond to theFrankensteinlegacy today, reintroducing it into cultural circulation in ways that speak creatively to current anxieties and concerns. Bringing together popular interventions that riff off Shelley's major themes, chapters survey such works asFrankenstein in Baghdad, Bob Dylan's recent "My Own Version of You", the graphic novel seriesDestroyerwith its Black cast of characters, Jane Louden'sThe Mummy!, the first Japanese translation of Frankenstein, "The New Creator", the iconicFrankensteinmask and Kenneth Brannagh'sMary Shelley's Frankensteinfilm. A deep-dive into the crevasses ofFrankensteinadaptation and lore, this volume offers compelling new directions for scholarship surrounding the novel through dynamic critical and creative responses to Shelley's original.