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 horror stories. But Mary Shelley's original novel, written in 1816...

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.

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, a masterpiece of 19th-century Gothic horror and considered to be the first science-fiction novel, is a subversive tale about the corrupt tendencies in humanity's most "civilized" ambitions.

A scientist succeeds in creating a living creature but one whose visage repulses even its maker. Condemned to loneliness by the fear he inspires, the creature learns to hate and destroy, becoming the monster he is taken for. This Gothic masterpiece is considered the first science-fiction novel.

The Modern Prometheus

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