Frankenstein According to Spike Milligan

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Frankenstein According to Spike Milligan was a comic-horror novel released in 1997 by Spike Milligan. It is the second book in his According to Spike Milligan series. It is a parody of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

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Like the rest of his According to Spike Milligan books, the story is ostensibly a simplified and humourous version of the original novel, with some minor changes. In this equivalent, Frankenstein's Monster is a heavy smoker whose trousers are constantly falling down, and Dr. Frankenstein is continuously put in a straitjacket whenever he begins to talk about the monster he created. There are also running gags about Dr. Frankenstein's sea voyages sinking midway, the Monster disappearing mysteriously because he runs at speeds of 100 mph, and notes by a fictious editor (Milligan) making sarcastic remarks about events in the novel.