I Am Frankenstein
Ten years after the Arctic. Ten years after Victor Frankenstein drew his last breath and spoke a name into the cold. The Creature has spent a decade in the shadows, watching.....
Ten years after the Arctic. Ten years after Victor Frankenstein drew his last breath and spoke a name into the cold. The Creature has spent a decade in the shadows, watching. He has watched humanity struggle and suffer — not only at its own hands, but at the hands of the things that hunt it from the dark: vampires in the Carpathian mountains, werewolf packs terrorizing highland villages, ancient spirits and predators older than civilization pressing against the fragile edges of the human world. And he has made a decision. Frankenstein: The Spirit of The Forest is an original audio drama expanding the world of Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece into something vast, brutal, and deeply human. It follows the Creature — eight feet tall, assembled from the dead, sustained by lightning and purpose — across seven theaters of conflict spanning Eastern Europe, the Scottish Highlands, Scandinavia, the Russian Steppe, the Pacific Northwest, the Himalayas, and finally, the top of the world itself. He is not a hero. He was never given the tools for heroism. He is something colder and more precise: a being who chose, in one defining moment, not to destroy — and has been paying for that choice ever since. Each episode peels back another layer of who and what he is. Each battle costs him something he cannot get back. And at the end of the road, standing on the Arctic ice with laughter like wind through frozen branches, something ancient and playful and deeply dangerous is waiting for him. This is a story about the violence of creation. About what purpose does to a person when it becomes the only thing left. About whether clearing the world of monsters makes you one — or something else entirely. He was made from death. Now he is its shepherd.
Disclaimer: This show may contain expletives, strong language, and mature content for adult listeners, including sexually explicit content and themes of violence. This is a work of fiction and any resemblance to real persons, businesses, places or events is coincidental. This show is not intended to offend or defame any individual, entity, caste, community, race, religion or to denigrate any institution or person, living or dead. Listener's discretion is advised.
