This story began in the beautiful city of Geneva, in Switzerland. A man called Victor Frankenstein wrote it. It was about his life. He had a little brother called William, who was born when Victor was twelve. Two years later, a pretty girl called Elizabeth came to live with them. Her parents were both dead, so the Frankensteins looked after her. She was Victor's lover, too.

Victor was a clever and intelligent boy. He was good at studying and always came first in exams. His favourite subject was Science. He was mad about it. When he was at the age to University of Heidelburg. He rented a house and built a laboratory there.

He was bored with his lessons in school. However he had great interest in human bodies. He wanted to find out the secret of life. And this gave him the idea of making a dead body alive. He paid men to steal bodies from graveyards, so that he could cut up the bodies and used them to his cruel experiments.