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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 9608924" data-attributes="member: 7635">The first third of Frankenstein is the Doctor preparing to raise the monster. The resurrection happens off camera and we're told about it. The monster then comes and says what has happened to him since his rebirth (about another third of the book) where he is the protagonist. Then the last third is the monsters ultimatum and the Doctor accepting and later rejecting it, and the fallout from it. The monster only appears again at the end once the Doctor is dead. Like Dracula, his shadow is much longer than his screentime.Jekyll is a essentially mystery because him being the same person as Hyde was the twist at the end of the murder mystery. And Phantom is written like a "true" crime novella with the Persian (an oft omitted character in adaptations) coming in and basically giving Erik's whole story right before the finale. (It helps that Gaston Leroux was a journalist primarily and much of the original serial is written like witness testimony).All of this to say I think the earlier Ravenloft novels had more in common with the Universal or Hammer style of monsters storytelling than the source materials. I mean, who even remembers who Gabriel John Utterson is...</blockquote>