What are the three traditional monsters in western culture?

Werewolves, vampires and Frankenstein are called the three traditional monsters in the West. The first two have been handed down for thousands of years, and only Frankenstein is modern.

18 16 In the summer, Miss Mary, who was madly in love with Shelley, went to a castle outside Geneva, Switzerland to visit Byron, another great English poet. The gathering of these two great poets left no immortal poems. The reason may be untimely heavy rain. Stop from time to time, and a few boring young people can only amuse themselves by a few ghost stories in the castle. Gradually, they were amused and wanted to join in. So everyone agreed to tell a ghost story, and the story of the two poets became a cliche, but Mary's Frankenstein came out and surprised everyone:

Frankens, a scientist, made a "man" himself, but this giant with a height of 2.5 meters is really ugly. The scientist was very dissatisfied with the creator and blew the giant away. The poor giant wandered about, longing for the warmth of human beings, and ran into a wall everywhere, so he had to go back to the scientist for help and ask for another female companion for him. Just as the giant's bride was about to "die", scientists thought of the giant's unusually strong body and unruly personality, as well as the terrible consequences of the combination of the two giants, which destroyed the bride. This move caused the giant's crazy revenge. ...

In the story told by Mary, the giant has no name. Two years later, Mary, who has become Mrs Shelley, named the giant "Frankenstein" after Frankenstein, a creation scientist, in order to facilitate the publication of this book.

Even now, in order to "clone" people, scientific circles and public opinion circles are still arguing endlessly. Therefore, we have to admit that mary shelley's short stories are impressive in that era when God created man. You know, Darwin's Special Origin was published half a century later. Mary not only foresees the prospect of "creating man" by science in the future, but also foresees the moral torture of learning "creating man". So this story is recognized as the first science fiction in history.

Of course, the most important reason for being so famous is the promotion of Hollywood. Hollywood intervened in the re-creation of fantasy literature, including The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter and the Bride of Frankenstein.

It is said that in the 1930s, if parents were willing to let their children watch the film Bride of Frankenstein, it was because they thought their children had grown up.