Frankenstein was based on some very real (and very creepy) experiments

Giovanni Aldini’s experiments with a human corpse

Scientists really did believe that electricity might be able to bring the dead back to life.

The idea that electricity really was the stuff of life and that it might be used to bring back the dead was certainly a familiar one in the kinds of circles in which the…


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