Frankenstein and Dracula were characters out of literature. Frankenstein began as a game in 1816 played by Mary Shelley, poet Percy Shelley and a notorious writer of the age named Lord Byron. It was on a storm-swept night that Lord Byron suggested a competition in which each of them would write a ghost story to see which could produce the most terrifying. Byron came up with a tale called The Vampyre. But Mary topped them all with her story of the modern Prometheus, as she called him, Frankenstein. Although publishers were at first reluctant to print this "blasphemous" portrait of a man who plays God by using science to create a living monster from sewn-together parts of dead human