A brilliant reimagining of Mary Shelley's bestselling classic. Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in the secluded village of Headington, near Oxford. The nearby coroner's office provides corpses - but they are damaged and putrifying. Victor moves his coils and jars and electrical fluids to a deserted pottery manufactury in Limehouse and makes contact with the Doomesday Men - the resurrectionists. He pays better than any hospital for the bodies perfect specimens are hard to come by.. ... until that Thames-side dawn when Victor sees in the half-light an approaching boat containing is the corpse of a handsome young man...