What became of it
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · first published 1818
35 versions · 1910–2025 · screen, stage, drawn
On screen
30Film and television, earliest first.
- 1910 Frankenstein J. Searle Dawley
- 1915 Life Without Soul Joseph W. Smiley
- 1920 The Monster of Frankenstein Eugenio Testa
- 1932 Frankenstein James Whale
- 1939 Son of Frankenstein Rowland V. Lee
- 1957 The Curse of Frankenstein Terence Fisher
- 1967 Frankenstein Conquers the World Ishirō Honda
- 1971 Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed Terence Fisher
- 1973 Frankenstein Glenn Jordan
- 1973 Frankenstein: The True Story Jack Smight
- 1975 Young Frankenstein Mel Brooks
- 1977 Victor Frankenstein Calvin Floyd
- 1979 Flesh for Frankenstein Antonio Margheriti
- 1984 Frankenstein James Ormerod
- 1984 Frankenstein 90 Alain Jessua
- 1985 The Bride Franc Roddam
- 1987 Frankenstein Burt Brinckerhoff
- 1988 Frankenstein General Hospital Deborah Sahagun
- 1992 Frankenstein David Wickes
- 1995 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Kenneth Branagh
- 2004 Frankenstein Marcus Nispel
- 2007 My Name Is Bruce Bruce Campbell
- 2010 Bikini Frankenstein Fred Olen Ray
- 2010 The Frankenstein Syndrome Sean Tretta
- 2011 Frankenstein: Day of the Beast Ricardo Islas
- 2014 Army of Frankensteins Ryan Bellgardt
- 2015 Frankenstein Bernard Rose
- 2016 Victor Frankenstein Paul McGuigan
- 2025 Frankenstein Guillermo del Toro
- — Frankenstein Kevin Connor
On stage
3Opera, musical theatre and ballet made from it.
- 2010 Frankenstein Mark Grey
- — Frankenstein – A New Musical
- — Mer de glace Richard Meale
Drawn
2Comics and manga.
- 2018 Frankenstein
- — Victor LaValle's Destroyer
Versions are listed where they are documented. A century of stage productions and most broadcasts were never catalogued at all, so this is what can be shown rather than everything that was ever made.