Abstract: In this paper, I explore the possibility of retelling Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein in a children’s media text.  Like most material within the horror genre, Frankenstein is not immediately accessible to children and its key themes and tropes have traditionally been read as articulations of “adult” concerns.  Yet Frankenstein is also a tale with … Continue reading “Children should play with dead things”: transforming Frankenstein in Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie – Erin Hawley