He lumbers where seagulls shriek instead of villagers, where the crash of waves replaces the roll of thunder, and where vacationers double take not at the bikini-clad but at a green-skinned monster created in the mind of a teenage author more than two centuries ago.

On Alabama’s Gulf Coast, a new kind of Frankenstein’s monster has come to life since October 1. Since then, Mary Shelley’s creation from 207 years ago has appeared in attire popularized by a horror movie made almost 94 years ago.

Behind the hulking walk is Greg Warren, a 52-year-old Orange Beach man who never expected to become the coastal Alabama’s most unlikely Halloween attraction. What began as a spur-of-the-moment experiment has turned into a monthlong seaside sensation: “Frankenstein of the Gulf Coast.”

Warren’s Boris

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