The title "Frankenstein University" is the unofficial nickname given to a nomadic group of scientists by the unsavory characters they contracted for 'special services'. The doctors never had a name for their 'organization' because it is much easier to deny the existence of a place that has no name. Almost nothing is known about what must have been a bizarre facility tucked away somewhere in the dark and rugged mountains of Eastern Europe. For reasons that this book will make obvious, the labs location certainly changed frequently.
Believed to have been started, not by the infamous Victor Frankenstein but by a student of his, Dr. Willhelm Gröedigger, who began by recruiting 'promising' eccentric med students from wealthy families, this clandestine 'school' has maintained it's existence, passing on their knowledge and continuing their grotesque and macabre research for the past 180 years, providing a place where an eclectic group of 'fringe' scientists may carry on their experimentation away from prying eyes. Examiners of the Lügner Codex conclude that there is no indication in it that the 'school' has ceased to exist.
Here, it is said, the old methods were perfected: reanimation, transplantation and grafting, implantation. It was here too that bold new methods were explored: gene-splicing, chemical alteration and radiation 'therapy'. Biological organisms by design, by chance, by mistake, by pure imagination. These mad genius' used biological organisms like one big tinker-toy set, joining pieces to create creatures that ranged from the laughably pathetic to the inconceivably horrific. It is not known how many of these creatures were unnaturally created but as far as anyone knows, not one of these unfortunate creatures has survived. According to Lügner they were cremated and their bones crushed into powder and cast into the wind. Photographs of the 'specimens' were forbidden; Lügner secretly made his drawings from memory.
Fritz Lügner made a career out of assisting a dozen or so of these mad medical experimenters. His drawings and notes documenting the dastardly deeds of those demented doctors contains the only information we have pertaining to these men and the product of their madness.