Frankenstein Is Considered One Of The First Early Examples Of Science Fiction.

Mary Shelley had a nightmare one gloomy night when she and her companion were cooped up in their summer villa with nothing to do but read poetry and discuss ideas with one another. She stated in her author's introduction that Victor Frankenstein was a dream of hers. The horrifying monster is standing by his bedside, opening his curtains and staring at him with yellow, watery, but curious eyes. "He sleeps, but he is woken.

When Mary Shelley awoke, she felt impelled to continue her story and announce to her readers, "I have discovered it! Others will be startled by what frightened me; all I have to do is describe the apparition that had been haunting my pillow at midnight.

People have regarded Mary Shelley as the originator of science fiction ever since Frankenstein was released and readers flocked to read the gothic horror tale about a scientist who uses galvanization to generate new life.

Frankenstein is "the best-known fiction of the Romantic age," according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and is one of the oldest works of science fiction in recorded history, a point that has been disputed by numerous readers over the decades.