AN exhibition inspired by one of the most iconic horror novels of all time has opened in a Bradford gallery.

Chloe Dewe Mathews’ acclaimed exhibition In Search of Frankenstein features photographs showing off the landscapes of Geneva and the Swiss Alps, the same landscapes that inspired Mary Shelley to write the novel, released in 1818.

The exhibition was first shown in the British Library. and has now been put on display at Impressions Gallery in City Park.

It marks the novel's bicentennial year, and will run at the gallery until January.

Shelley was holidaying on the shore of Lake Geneva with her future husband the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and companions including Lord Byron when she was inspired to write the novel about a scientist who tries to defy death, but creates a monster in the process.

The photographs include more modern additions to the landscape, such as nuclear bunkers.

As well as her photographs, the exhibition includes Dewe Mathews’ collection of vintage Alpine photographs and prints, and facsimiles of handwritten pages from Mary Shelley’s original manuscript The Geneva Notebook, now part of the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.

The gallery will also be displaying an 1897 edition of the book loaned from the University of Leeds Special Collections.

The photographer will be at Impressions to launch the exhibition and sign books at a special event tonight from 6pm to 8pm.