The Men Who Made Frankenstein

Whose bodies were used to create Frankenstein’s monster?

1791: Edward and Margaret are condemned to hang. The trapdoors open, the ropes snap tight, and they wake, horrified but alive. Now they’re trapped in Dr. Frankenstein’s cells, and their debt for rescue is due. The payment: healthy flesh, ripe for transplant!

Celebrating 200 years since Shelley completed Frankenstein, Second Self’s daring show dissects how people value their own, and others’ lives. The Men Who Made Frankenstein looks at part of the novel rarely investigated. Who had to die so that Frankenstein’s creature could live?