From the creator of Frankenstein comes the secrets of eternal youth, souls that exchange bodies, and ancient Romans newly thawed out of ice. This riveting collection contains all five of Mary Shelley's compelling supernatural tales, guaranteed to delight even the most jaded of horror fans.
About The Mortal Immortal
Mary Shelley's considerable fame is due to her great Gothic novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, published in 1818. Frankenstein is considered one of - if not the - earliest pure science-fiction novels. Shelley's powerful tale of blasphemous creation became even more celebrated through its many film adaptations, from Boris Karloff's iconic portrayal of Frankenstein to Kenneth Branaugh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
During Shelley's lifetime she published just over two-dozen stories, three of which were of interest to science fiction and fantasy readers. Two additional stories were published after Shelley's death. "Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman" was printed in a volume of reminisces by a magazine editor who had commissioned the story thirty years earlier; "Valerius: The Reanimated Roman" remained unpublished until 1976, when both stories were discovered by a Shelley scholar.
In gathering all of Mary Shelley's unprecedented supernatural short fiction, The Mortal Immortal adds to the legacy of this brilliant, innovative, and highly-entertaining author.
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Praise for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
"Here is one of the productions of the modern school in its highest style of caricature and exaggeration. It is formed on the Godwinian manner, and has all the faults, but many likewise of the beauties of that model. In dark and gloomy views of nature and of man, bordering too closely on impiety -in the most outrageous improbability-in sacrificing every thing to effect-it even goes beyond its great prototype; but in return, it possesses a similar power of fascination, something of the same mastery in harsh and savage delineations of passion, relieved in like manner by the gentler features of domestic and simple feelings. There never was a wilder story imagined, yet, like most of the fictions of this age, it has an air of reality attached to it, by being connected with the favourite projects and passions of the times."
-Edinburgh Magazine, 1818 (for Frankenstein)
