Ghost House Pictures and RT Features have picked up the rights to Peter Ackroyd's THE CASEBOOK OF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN, reports Deadline.com. David Auburn (PROOF) has been hired to adapt the script.

The story follows a young Victor Frankenstein as he experiments with corpses. He befriends poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and Shelley's wife Mary.

RT Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira, Ghost House's Rob Tapert and Ilene Staple are the producers. Fernando Loureiro, Jeff Vespa and Ghost House’s Nathan Kahane and Lawrence Grey are the exec producers.