Lynd Ward
2) Frankenstein
Author
Language
English
Description
The premier monster story of English literature-a tale of science pursued to horrifying extremes An origin story nearly as famous as the book itself: One dreary summer on the shores of Lake Geneva, amid discussions of galvanism and the occult and fireside readings from a collection of German ghost stories, Lord Byron proposed a game. Each of his guests-eighteen-year-old Mary Godwin and her future husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, among them-would...