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 Geneva. Over the next nine months -- a period which saw their return to [...]

The fable of the scientist who creates a man-monster is one of the best known horror stories ever. It has fascinated readers ever since it was first published in 1818.[...]

Victor Frankenstein, a gifted medical student, has discovered the secret of bringing dead matter to life. Gathering materials from graveyards and slaughterhouses, he creates a giant of superhuman strength. But he is horrified by what he has done, and runs away. How will the creature react to being l[...]

A graphic novel dealing with such subjects as alienation, empathy and understanding beyond appearance.[...]

This is a stunningly repackaged edition of Mary Shelley's classic gothic horror story. Few narratives can rival the way in which Shelley's gothic masterpiece captured the human imagination. The enduring appeal of the tale created its own monster in the form of the myriad of gory adaptations and whim[...]

The Original Gothic-Horror Literary Classic Mary Shelley's deceptively simple story of Victor Frankenstein and the creature he brings to life, first published in 1818, is now more widely read-and more widely discussed by scholars-than any other work of the Romantic period. From the creature's creat[...]

Mathilda is the finished draft of a short novel by Mary Shelley. Its adult theme, concerning a father?s incestuous love for his daughter and its consequences, meant that the manuscript was suppressed by Shelley?s own father, and not published until 1959, more than a hundred years after her death.[...]