Victoria Frankenstein

As a young scientist, Victoria Frankenstein gave life to a ghoulish creature sewn together from human corpses. Horrified by her own actions, she abandoned her creature and fled the country, setting off a lifelong struggle as creator and creation pursued each other through the wilderness.

As time went on, tales of Frankenstein’s experiments spread across Europe, her life story adapted into numerous sensational plays and penny dreadfuls. Her biographers took ample liberties with her personal history—notably, changing her gender—but as her fame grew, Frankenstein herself disappeared into obscurity. Most assume her long dead, but some believe she is still out there, wandering the Alpine tundra with her Creature by her side.