Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"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
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"An unnamed paralegal, brought back to life through a controversial process, maneuvers through a near-future world that both needs and resents him. As the United States president spouts anti-reanimation rhetoric and giant pharmaceutical companies rake in profits, the man falls in love with lawyer Faustina Godínez. His world expands as he meets her network of family and friends, setting him on a course to discover his first-life history, which the...
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"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...
7) Frankenstein
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"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
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"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...
11) I, Frankenstein
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Set in a dystopic present where vigilant gargoyles and ferocious demons rage in a battle for ultimate power, Victor Frankenstein's creation Adam finds himself caught in the middle as both sides race to discover the secret to his immortality.
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Obsessed with violating the laws of nature and of life and death, scientist Victor Frankenstein constructs a creature from the limbs of the dead. Once jolted into life, the creature proves to be even more human than his creator. He is knowledgeable, wise and also possessed with a conscience. Unable to inspire love, he chooses to inspire fear and vows to avenge the man who created and then abandoned him.
14) Frankenstein
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A married couple of scientists create a modern-day monster. This update on the classic Frankenstein is set in present day Los Angeles and told entirely from Adam the Monster's perspective. Adam is confronted with nothing but aggression and violence from the world around him after he is artificially created, then left for dead.
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Summoned by a will to his late grandfather's castle in Transylvania, young Dr. Frankenstein soon discovers the scientist's step-by-step manual explaining how to bring a corpse to life. Assisted by the hunchbacked Igor and the curvaceous Inga, he creates a monster who only wants to be loved.