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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8228463">This. Frankenstein is not only a significant influence on gothic horror, but is called out in particular in the black boxed set as an example of how to do it right (the scene with the monster talking to Frankenstein saying "I ought to by thy Adam"). And it is one of the most interesting horror stories out there. You can't judge a book like that based on how well it lines up with a modern test of characters. And Mary Shelley wasn't just a female writer, she was the daughter of one of the founders of feminism: Mary Wollstonecraft. And while Frankenstein focuses on two male characters, the themes are very feminine. This is a story about the creation of life. And you see that getting picked up later in a movie like Bride of Frankenstein (it is one of the reasons BoF is considered queer cinema---among other elements). And a lot of horror at this time, the time Ravenloft was being written, was written by women. There was a period I think I was mostly reading female writers. When Ravenloft was written, you couldn't walk into a book store and not see rows of Anne Rice books for example. The author who wrote Tapestry of Dark Souls, Elaine Bergstrom, also had a pretty big vampire line at that time too (I remember reading most of them). I feel like people are really oversimplifying the content and the history here.</blockquote>