Mary Shelley - The Mother of Frankenstein - Short Stories from the First Lady of Horror (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
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She brought the Modern Prometheus to life. Now, uncover the rest of her dark visions.
Before Mary Shelley was the mother of the greatest horror novel in history, she was a master of the terrifying short form. This essential collection gathers her most thrilling and philosophically profound excursions into the gothic, the fantastic, and the unnervingly prophetic.
In this volume, you will encounter the breadth of her genius, including:
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The Transformation: A proud, impoverished man agrees to swap bodies with a grotesque dwarf for seven months, only to watch the creature walk away with his identity, his fortune, and the love of his life.
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The Mortal Immortal: A desperate young alchemist consumes a secret elixir, granting him eternal life, a gift he quickly discovers is a relentless, isolating curse as he watches the world, and everyone he loves, crumble around him.
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The Invisible Girl: A melancholy, atmospheric tale of an isolated young woman who seems to be fading entirely from existence, becoming a ghost even to those who care for her.
Also featuring her best-known gothic tale, Frankenstein, alongside rarely collected stories like The Dream, The Reanimated Englishman, and a glimpse into her apocalyptic novel, The Last Man, this is the definitive treasury of the First Lady of Horror.
Discover the dark imagination that dared to stare into the abyss of science, death, and immortality.
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, into a life of personal tragedy. In 1816, she married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and that summer traveled with him and a host of other Romantic intellectuals to Geneva. Her greatest achievement was piecing together one of the most terrifying and renowned stories of all time: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Shelley said she conceived of Frankenstein in “a waking dream.” This vision was simply of a student kneeling before a corpse brought to life. Yet this tale of a mad creator and his abomination has inspired a multitude of storytellers and artists. She died on February 1, 1851.
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