Frankenstein

Frankenstein, in the romance of that name, written in 1816-18 by Mrs Shelley (Mary Godwin) in imitation of the old German stories of the supernatural, is the mortal who, having by the resources of natural science created a being in the form of man, is tormented by the monster of his own creation. In popular usage the term Frankenstein itself is often inaccurately applied to any creation which proves a cause of anxiety or disaster to its author.