Frankenstein

More than 200 years after it was first published,Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has stood the test of time as a gothic masterpieceΓÇöa classic work of horror that blurs the line between man and monster. ΓÇ£If I cannot inspire loveI will cause fear.ΓÇ¥ For centuriesthe story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created has held readers spellbound. On the surfaceit is a novel of tense and steadily mounting dread. On a more profound levelit illuminates the triumph and tragedy of the human condition in its portrayal of a scientist who oversteps the bounds of conscienceand of a creature tortured by the solitude of a world in which he does not belong. A novel of almost hallucinatory intensityMary ShelleyΓÇÖs Frankenstein represents one of the most striking flowerings of the Romantic imagination. With an Introduction by Douglas Clegg And an Afterword by Harold Bloom