Beast

Don’t fall for a “Beast”. That is unquestionably a bad idea. He will kill you but he will not take your life, you will become a walking carcass or a puppet unless you break him first. You must break the beast and restrain him. Take him to a dungeon and lock the monster there, do not let him see the sun or the moon and kiss the enraged fiend in the forehead every night before sleep. Haunt his dreams, lick his tears and when he slowly starts turning into a human, for your and his sake, take off his chains and leave him alone. A dog will always be a dog, he’ll follow your scent home.

(Bernie Wrightson art - Frankenstein)

“. . . the moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places.”

In Frankenstein – Marry Shelley