title: The Illustrated Frankenstein
author:  Jennifer Anderson 
description: Jennifer Anderson is a former Stegner Fellow in fiction writing at Stanford University. She published her first story, for which she later received a Pushcart honorable mention, in "The Best American Mystery Stories 2001." She lives in Napa, CA with her husband and two daughters. Illustrations are by California artist Barbara Harris Anderson, who splits time between two studios, one on a ranch in Creston, CA, the other in Sonoma.
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  ### A Novel by  
  TERRY BISSON  
    
  Based on the Motion Picture Screenplay by  
  ERIC BERNT  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
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  The subway train pulled into the station. New train, new station. New people —
  they were all well-dressed, wearing clothes that had that 