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How are both Stoker and Shelley able to horrify their readers, not through graphic violence but through images of the loss of humanity, in Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ and Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’? In both novels we get a sense of a loss of humanity with the characters, but of which characters? The monsters, in this case Count Dracula and Frankenstein’s creation, or the people around these ‘monsters’. But what I want to find is what makes us, as readers, horrified. Because both novels do not depict very violent or gory scenes but yet we still find them quite horrifying and I believe the explanation for this is because there is a lack of humanity within the two novels. It is the lack of humanity, which we find most terrifying. In the novel ‘Frankenstein’ you most certainly feel a certain amount of sympathy for the ‘monster’, which Victor Frankenstein has created. Frankenstein created this ‘monster’ because one main reason being the loss of his mother when he was young, he also has a thirst for knowledge. Is this a fair reason to create life, to play god? I believe it could be, but the way in which Victor created life was not in the way which God gave us the ability to create life he has done it through