Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Passion, peril, and imposture, shipwreck, alchemy, and transformation are the stuff of mary Shelley's richly imaginative stoires. Set against varying backdrops of medieval chivalry, the wars and revolutions of her age, and grandiose scense of nature, her tales sucessfully weave together elements of the Gothic and the Romantic." --book jacket

"Featuring over 200 illustrations and nearly 1,000 annotations, this sumptuous volume recaptures Shelley's early nineteenth-century world with historical precision and imaginative breadth, tracing the social and political roots of the author's revolutionary brand of Romanticism. Braiding together decades of scholarship with his own keen insights, Klinger recounts Frankenstein's indelible contributions to the realms of science fiction, feminist theory,...

"Frank tends the garbage heap in the monster realm, just on the other side of the human world. In his spare time, he builds inventions out of garbage scraps. One of his inventions is of a human-inspired robot, with a stained t-shirt as the body. But Frank can’t seem to get the robot to work. One strange night, a bolt of lightning transforms the invention into a real human child! Frank names him 'Stain.' Curious and energetic, Stain wreaks havoc...

Retells, in graphic novel format, Mary Shelley's classic tale of a monster, assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies, who develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.

"Two young women, Aveline and Violet, meet at the University of Ingolstadt and quickly bond over their interest in anatomy, the occult, and one another. But, before their love can fully bloom, Aveline dies. Violet resorts to dark sciences to keep the forbidden romance alive and resurrects Aveline... but all is not well. Aveline suspects something unnatural about her life as Violet struggles to keep the resurrection a secret. Will toying with the forces...

"Obsessed with natural philosophy, young Victor Frankenstein succeeds in creating life from its basic elements--and abandons the newborn monstrosity in terrer when he cannot bear to look at it. The rejected creature vanishes, and Victor attempts to forget what he has done... But the monster survives. It learns. Deprived of everything, fated to forever be alone, it has nothing left but revege." --back cover

Illustrated retelling of Mary Shelley's classic novel of a scientist who brings a monster to life.

"R.L. Stine is joined by artist A.L. Kaplan in this twisted retelling of Frankenstein. You might be familiar with the story of a mad scientist hell-bent on creating life, but what these two demented brothers have made is something else entirely!" --publisher's website.

A brain surgeon who inherits a family castle in Transylvania soon becomes obsessed with making his own monster after learning the family secrets. Assisted by the hunchback Igor and the curvaceous Inga, he creates a monster who wants to be loved.