Frankenstein by Mary Shelley classic And the artifact is placing

And the artifact is placing them at the center of an insidious plot in the mad whirl and blinding glitter of Las Vegas

having already made the precious metal the theme of his ultrasuccessful Las Vegas gambling establishment

Missing also is the man Kate trusted to transport the gems: her half brother

She saves the obligatory sex scene for the very end

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley classic And the artifact is placingI saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion." A summer evening's ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine's room, and a runaway imagination fired by philosophical discussions with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley about science,