Paul O'Flinn observes: "Mary Shelley's monster, having resisted his creator's attempts to eliminate him in the book, is able to reproduce himself with the variety and fertility that Frankenstein had feared. Apart from steady sales in Penguin, Everyman and OUP editions
there have been over a hundred film adaptations 
and there have been the Charles Addams cartoons in the New Yorker.... in South Africa in 1955 the work was banned as indecent and objection able."
"There is no such thing as Frankenstein," O'Flinn concludes; "there are only Frankensteins, as the text is ceaselessly rewritten, repro duced, refilmed and redesigned
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