Frankenstein and the Zombies

By Donald H Sullivan

Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" ends with Victor Frankenstein dying from exposure in the frigid arctic. His creation is left in the frozen wasteland presumably to die also. It survives, however, and makes its way southward, ending in the Caribbean Sea. It drowns when its boat capsizes near a small island. Its body eventually washes up on the beach, where it falls into the hands of a wealthy but eccentric medical doctor who is also a voodoo practitioner. The doctor is reviving corpses to make his own personal army of zombies.
A young man and his fiancee work for the doctor tending his house on the small, isolated island. They discover his illegal activities which places them in great danger.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Donald H Sullivan
• Release date: Jul 14, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301555826

Donald H Sullivan

I'm a native Floridian, retired from the US Army, I started writing in the army, mostly training and tech manuals. Boring stuff, but it whetted my interest in writing. I've written sci-fi, thrillers, mysteries, humor, fantasies, horror, and more. I'm now living in NC. While in the army, I served in air defense artillery, military intelligence, and psychological operations. I also worked in Federal Civil Service as a quality assurance specialist, ammunition surveillance. I love writing, reading, most kinds of music, and animals--especially dogs.

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Frankenstein and the Zombies

Donald H Sullivan

Copyright 2013 Donald H Sullivan

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Table of Contents

Title Page

The Beginning

Excerpt: The Soul Hunters

About the Author

The Beginning

There are two Frankensteins. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Boris Karloff's Frankenstein. The original novel, Frankenstein, was written by Mary Shelley and published in 1818. Her novel is a classic, and is a good read even though it was written in the wordy, flowery style of the 1800's.

Boris Karloff's Frankenstein was the movie version. The 1931 movie, Frankenstein, was loosely based on Mary Shelley's novel. Karloff also played the monster in two sequels, Bride of Frankenstein and Son of Frankenstein.

After the first three movies with Karloff, there were dozens of movies about the monster, even some comedies such as Frankenstein Meets Abbot and Castello and Young Frankenstein.

Although the monster's creator was named Frankenstein, over time the monster itself began to be called by that name.

Most movies used the monster introduced by Karloff: the one with electrodes in the neck. A few used the monster as described by Shelley, and some invented their own versions.

With few exceptions, the monster is always revived by a scientist, either a descendent of the original creator or a mad scientist. In Frankenstein and the Zombies it is revived with a combination of science and voodoo sorcery.

Shelley's novel ends with the monster being left in the frozen wastes of the arctic, presumably to die there. This story takes up from there.

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One

It became aware of its existence, but it was an existence in a world of blackness and silence. Although it was conscious it possessed none of the five senses.

There was no memory, no thought, no emotion; it was aware only that it existed. It had no concept of time, no idea of when it came into being or how long it had existed.

It was not curious as to how or why it had come into being; it did not know and it did not care.

And then something happened. A flash of memory. It was but a short flash of a memory, lasting only seconds. And it was not a clear memory: It vaguely remembered jumping from a ship moored in frigid waters amid mountains of ice. It had landed on an ice floe, intending to end its life.

The memory faded and its coma-like state returned.

It did not know how much time passed before the next memory came. It could have been seconds or it could have been years. But this time the memory did not come and go in a flash.

The memories came slowly at first, and then started flooding its mind. It remembered feeling its first spark of life, and then discovering that the spark was given by its creator, Victor Frankenstein.

Then it remembered the conflict that developed between it and its creator. Victor Frankenstein was bitterly disappointed, even remorseful, that he had created such a loathsome creature. He had envisioned a being of grace and beauty, only to find that his creation was a hideous monster.

Victor set out to destroy the obscene thing that he had created.

And it, the hideous monster, resented being brought into a world where it would be regarded as a horrible freak, and to go through an existence of being feared and despised.

It hated its creator, but it could not bring itself to kill him, as much as it would have taken pleasure in doing so. And since it could not bring itself to slay the man, though it could have done so easily, it decided to destroy any and everything that Victor Frankenstein loved and treasured.

It remembered the brutal murders, one by one, of anyone who happened to be dear to Victor Frankenstein, and the murders of any who had gotten in its way. It remembered delighting in the grief and misery it had caused its creator.

And it remembered the searing hatred, outrage, and burning desire for vengeance of Victor as he set out to destroy his creation. It remembered fleeing its creator, who was obsessed with tracking down and destroying the monster he had unleashed on the world.

It fled, not because it feared Victor, for it knew that with its vastly superior strength and near invincibility, it could withstand