Re: Atticus M/Connie G
Was. But people in this town wouldn't think anything of a mad scientist. His creature would have a harder time fitting in.
American modern. 20th forward, mostly.
But, know my fair bit about Mary Shelley. Her father was friends with all the scientists of the day. Would call them scientists loosely today, but electricity was hot then, and Galvinism was hot. Was the idea that electricity lived within animals. Reanimating corpses was a big thing as a result. When she was young, a scientist her father knew inserted metal rods into the mouth and ears of a dead prisoner. His jaws quivered. Face contorted. Eyes opened. Was thrilling to them.