First published 2015
Tor Frankenstein drives through a storm in Hollow Pines, Texas when her car strikes and kills a man. Most teenagers would panic. Tor applies her scientific knowledge instead. She resurrects the dead man, setting off a chain of twisted events that transform her high school experience into something truly terrifying. Baker takes the classic Frankenstein story and drops it into modern teenage life, where scientific experimentation meets the social pressures of adolescence. Tor must navigate the consequences of playing god while dealing with the ordinary horrors of high school. Her resurrection experiment creates complications she never anticipated, forcing her to confront what happens when science crosses moral boundaries. The story explores how far one brilliant student will go to fix her mistakes and whether bringing someone back from the dead solves anything at all.
Genres: science-fiction, horror, contemporary, young-adult
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: consequences-of-actions, fish-out-of-water, science-gone-wrong
Setting: Hollow Pines, Texas
Period: modern
34 pages · Kindle Edition · Feiwel & Friends
Content warnings: body-horror, medical-trauma