Exactly what the title says it is.
This is adapted from Monsters and Villains of the Movies and Literature by Gerrie McCall, Dragons: Fearsome Monsters from Myth and Fiction by Gerrie McCall, and Mythical Monsters by Chris McNab.
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HAIR: The jolt of electricity that brings her to life causes her hair to stand on end and streak it white BODY: She has only recently been shocked to life by electricity, so her unnatural movements are twitchy and jerky. CLOTHING: The long tunic is part death shroud, part wedding gown. Bandages still cover her arms like full-length gloves. HEART: Her young, fresh heart recently beat in the chest of a peasant girl who was murdered by Frankenstein's assistant. FACE: The dull black eyes are blank and staring. They dart back and forth in a nervous, birdlike manner. Stitches underneath her chin betray the fact she is the creation of a surgeon.
Frankenstein's ale monster urges the scientist to create a female friend as a mate for him. Frankenstein is reluctant, so the monster kidnaps Frankenstein's fiancee, Elizabeth, and hides her in a cave. The monster blackmails Frankenstein into creating a woman for him, telling him Elizabeth shall be safely returned once he gets his own mate. Using a corpse (stolen from a graveyard) of a 19-year-old girl, Frankenstein goes to work. His assistant is told to get a heart from a victim at the hospital, but instead he murders a peasant girl and takes hers. The female monster is brought to life in the lab during a violent electrical storm.
The strike of a lightning bolt gives the female monster a spark of life. The male creature is hopeful about his new mate and reaches out to touch her arm. She responds to him with an ear-splitting shriek. The male monster is devastated by her rejection. The shortest-lived monster of all time, she survives for only a few minutes before being destroyed. The male monster announces, "We belong dead." He pulls a lever that destroys the lab, himself, and his grotesque, would-be mate.
DID YOU KNOW? -Frankenstein's first name is Victor in the novel Frankenstein, but it is changed to Henry in the movies Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. The movie version of Frankenstein offers a different ending than in the novel. Frankenstein himself survives and his monster is trapped inside a burning mill at the end of the 1931 movie version.
-The bride of Frankenstein actually refers to Elizabeth, Henry Frankenstein's fiancee. While the female monster Frankenstein creates is meant to be a mate for the male monster, she does not survive long enough to be his bride.
