To The Devil Add Aorta

The central figure of Mary Wolstencraft’s novel, Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus (1818), about a scientist who revivifies the dead with electrical impulses transmitted through salt water, has been universally depicted in modern cinema and popular culture as having bolts at each side of his neck to keep his head erect, while the common myth of the immortal East European vampire, as depicted in Irish writer Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), is of a Transylvanian creature with two sharp, hollow, incisor teeth, drinking hot, salty, red human blood from two holes punched at the neck.