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Horde Monster Fact #27: Frankenstein Has a Telling Subtitle
Mary Shelley’s novel carries the subtitle The Modern Prometheus, referencing the Greek myth of Prometheus, who defied the gods and paid a steep price for it.
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Horde Monster Fact #26: Frankenstein Was Written During a Ghost Story Contest
Mary Shelley conceived Frankenstein in 1816 during a ghost-story writing contest with Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, held during what became known as the Year Without a Summer due to unusual global weather.
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Horde Monster Fact #25: Frankenstein Is the Doctor, Not the Monster
In Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Victor Frankenstein is the scientist who creates the monster. The creature itself is never given a proper name in the original text.
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Horde Monster Fact #24: Louisiana Has Its Own Werewolf Legend
The loup-garou is a werewolf figure prominent in French and Cajun folklore, especially in Louisiana, often used historically as a cautionary tale to keep children close to home after dark.
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Horde Monster Fact #23: The Wendigo Comes From Algonquian Folklore
The wendigo is a cannibalistic spirit or monster from Algonquian storytelling traditions, associated with winter, starvation, and insatiable hunger, later widely adapted into horror fiction.
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Horde Monster Fact #22: The Full Moon Trigger Is a Modern Addition
Older werewolf folklore didn’t consistently tie transformation to a full moon. That specific trope became standardized largely through horror films of the 20th century.
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Horde Monster Fact #21: Silver Bullets Are Mostly a Movie Invention
The idea that only silver can kill a werewolf is much more a product of 20th-century films, like The Wolf Man (1941), than of older European folklore, which described many other methods of dispatching a werewolf.
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Horde Monster Fact #20: 'Clinical Lycanthropy' Is a Real Psychiatric Term
Separate from werewolf folklore, clinical lycanthropy is a documented, extremely rare psychiatric delusion in which a person believes they are transforming into an animal, most often a wolf.
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