by Mary Shelley - £5.99 Penguin Books Ltd (2012)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9780141198965 | ISBN 10: 0141198966
'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'
The scientist Victor Frankenstein, obsessed with possessing the secrets of life, creates a new being from the bodies of the dead. But his creature is a twisted, gruesome parody of a man who, rejected for his monstrous appearance, sets out to destroy his maker.
Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale, conceived after a nightmare in 1816 when she was only eighteen, became a modern myth. It is a disturbing and dramatic exploration of birth and death, creation and destruction, and one of the most iconic horror stories of all time.
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