#Kaibutsu genso gashu
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Forty Days of Frankenstein, Day Twenty-Three: This fascinating image is a perfect example of the kind of fruitful cross-pollination that results when, as they say, “East meets West.” The artist is Tatsuya Morino, and this illustration is one of several from his 1999 art book *Kaibutsu gensō gashū* (怪物幻想画集) which translates to, prosaically enough, “Monster Fantasy Art Collection.” What’s in the book, though, is something pretty special. The artist has taken a number of classic, specifically-Western fantasy and horror stories (and honestly one of the interesting things about the collection is which stories have been selected, because some of them are non-obvious), and has created images for them in a specifically Japanese art style. The result is weird, disturbing, wonderful, and startling, provoking the Western reader to see old, familiar stories, like Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror,” or Bram Stoker’s *Dracula* with new eyes. In this image for the Mary Shelley novel, we see, again, that crucial moment of Victor Frankenstein confronting his newborn Creature for the first time (Note the manga-style sweat drops on and around Victor). The Monster looks as horrified to discover that he’s alive as Victor is.
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