Each participant was asked to write 80-100 words to continue a Halloween-themed story. The only catch was that each writer was only given the entry immediately preceding theirs. No context, no idea what had happened before. The result is a sort of tale that has been stitched together like Frankenstein’s monster.
31 Days of Halloween – October 4, 2013
“The cold stars shone in mockery, and the bare trees waved their branches above me; now and then the sweet voice of a bird burst forth amidst the universal stillness. All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment; I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself unsympathized with, wished to…
REVIEW: MONSTER by Dave Zeltserman
I think the original Frankenstein is a brilliant work of literature. Nearly 200 years later and it still causes nightmares and engenders philosophical discussions, not to mention dozens of films. And it inspires “revisionist” works such as this. Monster is from the first-person perspective of the “creature”, Dr. Victor Frankstein’s monster. The inner thoughts (the…