Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a timeless classic, but continues to suffer frequent Hollywood distortions. From movies starring Boris Karloff (William Henry Pratt) in 1931 to Robert DeNiro in 1994, film adaptations of Frankenstein never have portrayed Shelley's full story on the silver screen. An important but often overlooked part of the original book is the murder of Henry Clerval, Victor Frankenstein's dear lifelong friend. Although many film versions of Frankenstein include Henry Clerval as a character, these films never tell the story of his untimely demise. The literature has been silent on this as well ... until now. Richard Hassler