Johnny
Pearl, an ex-Confederate farmer, is lynched by members of the U.S.
Cavalry, who also murder his pregnant Indian wife. Pearl is restored
to life by Dr. Anton Mirablis and given the name of “Lynch.”
Mirablis is nearly 100-years-old and studied medicine in the 1790s
with Frankenstein. Mirablis has some of Frankenstein’s notebooks.
According to Mirablis, he and Frankenstein were working to create
life together, until they went their separate ways when they
disagreed on the method. Frankenstein was interested in electricity,
but Mirablis was interested in creating a serum. Eventually, Mirablis
combined both methods. Rick Lai writes, “Mirablis claims that Mary
Shelley altered events for her classic novel. He says that
Frankenstein’s real name was Viktor von Frankenstein, and that the
two of them studied at the University of Vienna (rather than
Ingolstadt). Mirablis also claims that both Frankenstein and the
Monster perished differently than in the novel. Mirablis is an
untrustworthy person, and could be lying for his own reasons.” An
ad for "Dr. Mirablis's Amazing Electric Truss" appears in a
penny dreadful called Pickman's Illustrated
Serials in Collins' story "Hell Come
Sundown." Rick Lai referenced this story by identifying Count
Corbucci's American dime novel publisher as Pickman and Sons in his
story "The Last Vendetta."
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