Swiss medical student Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of life (which he never reveals, lest someone repeat the mistake). He then puts together a body, essentially a man, from various corpses. He then becomes horrified by the ...

Victor Frankenstein learns the secret of producing life, and so, by putting together parts of various corpses, he creates the Frankenstein monster. The monster is huge and disformed, but he means no harm to anyone--until constant ill ...

Fantasy Classics presents Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' adapted by Rod Lott and Skot Olsen, with a prologue illustrated by Mark A. Nelson. Plus H.P. Lovecraft's epic fantasy 'The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath,' by Ben Avery and Leong...

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In Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," a brilliant scientist's relentless pursuit of knowledge leads to the creation of a monstrous being. As the lines between creator and creation blur, a harrowing tale of ambition, morality, an...

Mary Shelley's groundbreaking classic—begun as a ghost story for friends—is a potent blend of science fiction and horror that has inspired countless movie and other adaptations. Nothing, however, equals the depth and beauty of She...

Shelley's enduringly popular and rich gothic tale confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism and science--topics such as degeneracy, hereditary disease, and humankind's ability to act as creator of the modern world....

Victor Frankenstein is consumed by his desire to discover the secrets of life. After several years of research, Victor feverishly constructs a man out of old body parts and brings him to life. Victor is immediately horrified by his am...

Victor Frankenstein, a scientist, develops a method to infuse life into non-living matter. With this knowledge he brings to life a humanoid creature of a hideous nature. Victor and his creation become entangled in a saga of love, deat...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the world's most famous Gothic novel and the first work of science fiction, with Frankenstein's monster being a symbol of science gone awry.  Shelley's masterpiece has inspired numerous films, plays a...

Also published as The Beautiful Widow,Mary Shelley’s penultimate novel explores the web of relationships between three women, bound together by the exacting Lord Lodore: his estranged wife Cornelia, a woman ruled by her moth...

One of three Signature Select Classics chapbooks steeped in the thrills and chills of the gothic tradition, publishing simultaneously with chapbooks of similarly weird works by Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. This stunning chapbo...

Brings together the pwerful works of a mother/daughter combination... These novels will prove a foundation for any college-level course on literature and feminism.'—The Bookwatch 'A gripping tale of incestuous desire... vitalized by...

Mary Shelley nunca vio su obra publicada: su novela perdida durante 140 años cuenta la historia de una mujer alienada de la sociedad por la pasión incestuosa de su padre. Con la excusa de retomar un cuento inacabado...

This shocking tale of father-daughter incest, by the author of Frankenstein, was suppressed for over a century. Mathilda's adoration of her beloved father veers into tragedy in this High Romantic tale of forbidden passion. Mary Shelle...

Tales and Stories (1891) is a collection of short fiction by Mary Shelley. Despite her reputation as one of the foremost English novelists of the nineteenth century, Shelley also wrote numerous stories for magazines and other publicat...

Tales and Stories Now First Collected, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing t...

I AM the native of a sea-surrounded nook, a cloud-enshadowed land, which, when the surface of the globe, with its shoreless ocean and trackless continents, presents itself to my mind, appears only as an inconsiderable speck in the imm...

In the summer of 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, then eighteen years old, began to write the novel 'Frankenstein' after she and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley took part in a ghost-story competition at Lord Byron's villa by Lake Gene...

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