Frankenstein's Aunt (novel)
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Frankenstein's Aunt is a novel by Allan Rune Pettersson
Allan Rune Pettersson
Allan Rune Pettersson is a Swedish writer.After a varied career as producer of children's programmes on Swedish radio and later as inkeeper in Portugal, he became a freelance writer on his return to Sweden in 1965....

 that was first published in Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 in 1978.
The story is about Hannah Frankenstein
Frankenstein's Aunt
Frankenstein's Aunt is the protagonist of three novels - two by Allan Rune Pettersson and a seven-episode TV miniseries based on the first one...

, the Baron's aunt who comes to Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first...

's Castle to put it back in order, following the chaos caused by her nephew's experiments. There she meets the unusual inhabitants of the castle, which apart from Frankenstein's monster
Frankenstein's monster
Frankenstein's monster is a fictional character that first appeared in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The creature is often erroneously referred to as "Frankenstein", but in the novel the creature has no name...

, also include Count Dracula
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 and Larry Talbot
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 the werewolf
Werewolf
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. The book is a homage
Homage
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 to the Universal Horror Frankenstein films of the 1930's and 1940's.
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