Lady Frankenstein

Lady Frankenstein by Curtis Garland This Spanish-language horror story opens with the execution of Lady Jane Charity Brown, a twenty-three-year-old woman convicted of five premeditated murders. She faces the gallows in London in 1890 with defiant composure, rejecting the prison chaplain's offers of spiritual comfort and declaring herself unrepentant, proud of her crimes, and contemptuous of human morality and fear. After her execution, Sir Lawrence Conway learns that Doctor Viktor Frankenstein of Geneva, Switzerland has claimed her body through legal authority and arranged for her transport to Switzerland for burial. The mysterious doctor's sudden appearance to claim the executed criminal surprises Conway, who had intended to arrange her funeral himself. The narrative emphasizes the condemned woman's exceptional beauty, her psychological coldness, and the enigmatic circumstances surrounding Frankenstein's involvement with her corpse.