Mary Shelley Audio

This immortal horror story, which has implications for modern science and genetic engineering...

Mary Shelly's Frankenstein came to her in a vision. She "saw the hideous phantasm of a man..."

Lightning strikes the pole sending electric waves racing across dark castle walls into the laboratory and the lifeless body stitched together by a scientist called " mad " because he wants to create life in a lifeless creature.

The gothic tale of Frankenstein and his construction of a human being who runs amok has, with the help of numerous films, become one of the most vivid of horror stories.

Frankenstein is a dark and brooding dramatisation of Mary Shelley's famous novel, and stars Michael Maloney as the scientist who makes a creature in his own name.

The legacy of Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, one of the most famous of the English Gothic novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, lives on through the modern cultural icons of the mad scientist and the demonic creation that always seem to threaten to destroy humankind.

A timeless, terrifying tale of one mans obsession to create life -- and the monster that became his legacy.

The novel begins with an explorer, Robert Walton, spotting an enormous creature speeding across...

A student discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter...

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus was first published in London, England in 1818.