Radiation Can Really Mess Things Up, is a classic Sci-Fi story about what happens when you aren't monitoring the site of a nuclear disaster like Chernobyl, quite closely enough.
FBI agent Lili Foxworthy and her husband, actor Peter Wolff, visit Peter'shomeland of Germany for a bit of R&R at the family castle, but what they encounter is an evil and charismatic Interpol agent, and a case of exploding people.
When Mary Wollstonecraft wrote her classic, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, in 1818, she raised questions about the advisability of humans trying to create life artificially.