Welcome friends, both new and old, to ‘The Frankenlab’, the place where I, Doctor Victor Emelius Frankenstory, showcase the finest contributions to Frankenstory.com (the story writing game where two freakishly misshapen heads are better than one).

This week sees much excitement in store for the Frankenstory crew as we leave depart from our secret underground lab  in wintery Geneva, bound for the hustle and bustle of old London Town. Our destination is ‘The Story’, a one-day conference which seeks to unite wordsmiths, raconteurs, fable-tellers,  imagineers, plot-pushers, chronicle-junkies and ragtag vagabonds from the narrative super-highway, all looking to celebrate the joy of a tale well told.

As this is our maiden voyage to good old Blighty (and the first time my hunchback butler Igor has ventured overseas since his disastrous appearance on ‘Transylvania’s got Talent’), we’ve decided to celebrate the occasion with our first ever Frankenstory competition.

That’s right, over the coming months we’ll be challenging our Frankenfans to blow our stinky little socks off with their literary creations for the chance to win a very special prize. To enter, you must  submit a completed story to the Frankenstory website by simply logging on to Frankenstory.com, following the instructions and badgering a friend into becoming the story-writing sidekick to your narrative superhero.

“But Dr. Frankenstory” I hear you cry “pray tell, just what is this fabulous prize with which you tantalise us so?”

Well, meinen freunden, we’ve convinced Mademoiselles Lady and Small to lovingly hand craft a unique piece of Frankenstory memorabilia for our lucky winners. Assembled from authentic bits and bobs from our very own secret laboratory, it promises to be part beast, part marvel and 100% bonkers (and we can’t guarantee that it won’t gnaw your fingers off either). You can’t buy this in the shops (in fact we’re not even sure we’ll get it through customs!) so you can rest assured you’ll have a one-of-a-kind creation to scare the grandkids with.

So there it is, Frankenfans, your chance to become part of Frankenstory history as our first ever competition winner!

Remember to follow me @frankenstory on Twitter where I’ll be documenting our thoughts and experiences  of ‘The Story’ and if you happen be at the conference and you  spot a dashing silver-haired scientific genius and a butler who looks like a haemorrhoid, do come over and say guten tag.

Anyway, must dash – there’s an Easyjet from Geneva with our name on it and Igor’s itching to add to his sick-bag collection.

See you at ‘The Story’

Internationally yours,

Dr. Victor E Frankenstory

This isn’t a competition to determine which of your submissions are the best and there will be many excellent tales that never grace the pickling jars of the Frankenlab. However each story I pick will have done something really interesting which will hopefully go on to inspire other players.

It could be a brilliantly written story, something side-splittingly funny, something really dark and mysterious or something experimental that makes us sit up and take notice. Then again it could just as easily be two halves of a tale that come together to create something downright weird or a story with a deliciously topical twist.

So why not get writing and who knows, maybe you’ll spawn something freaky enough to grab my attention?

Monster hugs,

Dr. Victor E. Frankenstory.

I am Dr. Victor Emelius Frankenstory, eminent physicist, prolific wordsmith and three-time North Tyrolean table tennis champion (1957-1959). I am also the creator of www.frankenstory.com, the world’s greatest literary experiment.

Based in my secret Frankenlab (hidden somewhere beneath an abandoned Cuckoo-clock factory in downtown Geneva) my incredible monstrous machine works day and night to weave fabulously freaky narratives from stories submitted by writers just like you. In fact, I suspect the only reason I have not yet won the Nobel Prize is due to the fact that they cannot decide whether to give it to me for science or literature!

Ably assisted by my manservant Igor and my Rottweiler, Elsie, I take stories submitted to the Frankenstory website from pairs of writers all around the world and splice them together to create magnificently mutated hybrid tales.

You’ll soon be able to find examples of some of the most interesting  stories right here in my ‘Frankenlab’ blog where I’ll be dissecting some of the more unusual specimens  for your inspirational pleasure (before stuffing them full of sawdust, sewing them back up and mounting them on polished mahogony stands to show off to my dinnerparty guests).

You can  follow my adventures right here in my blog and also through Twitter where I’ll I’ll be sharing all the new developments from the Frankenlab and highlighting other great writing resources from around the web to help you find inspiration.

So why not have a go yourself? Just log on to www.frankenstory.com and start writing a story with the friend of your choice.

(Just try not to disturb Igor, he gets distinctly tetchy if anything distracts him from the latest episode of Desperate Housewives).