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Albany, NY – This is the time of year when young Frankensteins appear on doorsteps asking for treats, something that would have astonished the pregnant Mary Shelly as she penned her gothic tale of the driven young medical student who played god and the anguish of the creature he created and abandoned. That story went on to have a cultural history of its own which Susan Tyler Hitchcock explores in her new book "Frankenstein: A Cultural History."