What if the monster was never really the monster? In this episode of Some Topic, Nick and Brett crack open Frankenstein and immediately confront one of the greatest literary misunderstandings of all time: Frankenstein is the scientist, not the monster. From there, the conversation spirals through high school memories, bad movie adaptations, graveyards, and the strange cultural evolution of one of the most famous stories ever written.

The hosts explore the life of Mary Shelley and the bizarre circumstances that helped inspire her legendary novel. A rainy summer near Lake Geneva, a group of writers challenging each other to create ghost stories, and the aftermath of the massive Mount Tambora eruption all come together to create the perfect environment for a story about science, death, and the possibility of creating life. Th ...