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Mary Shelley’s timeless gothic classic accompanied by the art of legendary illustrator Bernie Wrightson live on in this gorgeous illustrated adaptation of Frankenstein—featuring an introduction by Stephen King.Few works by comic book artists have earned the universal acclaim and reverence that Berni... Read More about Frankenstein

By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened... Frankenstein is the most celebra... Read More about Frankenstein: Or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics)

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: Cornelia, Lodore's estranged wife, ruled by her mother and the norms of aristocratic society; Ethel, his daughter, raised in the w... Read More about Lodore (Rediscovered Classics)

This stunning keepsake--perfect for fans of the mysterious and macabre--comprises Mary Shelley's classic tale of a botched experiment in immortality, "The Mortal Immortal," and "On Ghosts: An Essay," her appraisal of popular ghost legends.... Read More about Mary Shelley: Gothic Tales (Signature Select Classics)

Frankenstein is the most celebrated horror story ever written. It tells the dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discovers the secret of life. In the grip of his obsession he constructs a being from dead body parts, and animates this creature. Th... Read More about Frankenstein: Or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection)

Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Shelley's "Frankenstein." The story of Victor Frankenstein's monstrous creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and s... Read More about Frankenstein (Dover Thrift Editions (Prebound))