"In the most exact sense of the words,
it was the damndest thing you ever saw!"

From "The Cat that Went to Trinity"
by Canadian author Robertson Davies from his book "High Spirits" 1983

a "mock-gothic" short story, and "a kind of gruesome homage to Frankenstein"
quotes from selectedshorts.org where you can hear a delightful retelling
http://ec.libsyn.com/p/a/9/e/a9e9fa4a8890bf9c/PCast_SS201305.mp3?d13a76d516d9dec20c3d276ce028ed5089ab1ce3dae902ea1d01c08430d3c85a5586&c_id=6312798