Mary W. Shelley's classic story is one of, if not the first, major horror novels and still one of finest. It's why acclaimed director Guillermo del Toro is releasing his own adaptation on Netflix. It's tells of a tale that shows us what happens when we tend to overreach or 'fly too close to the sun.' When people think of Frankenstein's monster, it's always Karloff's version that immediately comes to mind, but that's not how he was described in the book. It's true he's gigantic in height, but his features are told to be both beautiful and grotesque. In fact, reading the whole book will make you see this as more of an epic drama than a horror. True, people die in this book, but death is usually involved in the making of a good story.