Frankenstein 📖

Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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horror Gothic horror past tense third limited POV ~388 pp

Vibe

tragic gothic melancholic

A slow-burn and dark horror. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Plot-driven and deeply introspective. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 85
sparsedense
Pacing 20
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 10
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 15
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 90
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 95
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 90%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 0%
seriouscomedic
Romance 30%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count97,116
Page count~388 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited