Literature thumb|187x187px|Mary Shelley Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, wherein a man stitches together a human body from corpses and brings it to life, was inspired in part by the theory and demonstrations of Galvanism which may have been conducted by James Lind. Although the Creature was described in later works as a composite of whole body parts grafted together from cadavers and reanimated by the use of electricity, this description is not consistent with Shelley's work; both the use of electricity and the cobbled-together image of Frankenstein's monster were more the result of James Whale's popular 1931 film adaptation of the story.
Literature thumb|187x187px|Mary Shelley Mary Shelley's Frankenstein wherein a man stitches together a human body from corpses and brings it to life was inspired in part by the theory and demonstrations of Galvanism which may have been conducted by James Lind Although the Creature was described in later works as a composite of whole body parts grafted together from cadavers and reanimated by the use of electricity this description is not consistent with Shelley's work; both the use of electricity and the cobbled-together image of Frankenstein's monster were more the result of James Whale's popular 1931 film adaptation of the story