Mary Shelley - The Mother of Frankenstein - Short Stories from the First Lady of Horror (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

<p><strong>She brought the Modern Prometheus to life. Now uncover the rest of her dark visions.</strong></p><p>Before Mary Shelley was the mother of the greatest horror novel in history she was a master of the terrifying short form. This essential collection gathers her most thrilling and philosophically profound excursions into the gothic the fantastic and the unnervingly prophetic.</p><p>In this volume you will encounter the breadth of her genius including:</p><ul><li><p><em>The Transformation</em><strong>:</strong> A proud impoverished man agrees to swap bodies with a grotesque dwarf for seven months only to watch the creature walk away with his identity his fortune and the love of his life.</p></li><li><p><em>The Mortal Immortal:</em> A desperate young alchemist consumes a secret elixir granting him eternal life a gift he quickly discovers is a relentless isolating curse as he watches the world and everyone he loves crumble around him.</p></li><li><p><em>The Invisible Girl</em><strong>:</strong> A melancholy atmospheric tale of an isolated young woman who seems to be fading entirely from existence becoming a ghost even to those who care for her.</p></li></ul><p>Also featuring her best-known gothic tale <em>Frankenstein</em> alongside rarely collected stories like <em>The Dream The Reanimated Englishman</em> and a glimpse into her apocalyptic novel <em>The Last Man</em> this is the definitive treasury of the First Lady of Horror.</p><p><strong>Discover the dark imagination that dared to stare into the abyss of science death and immortality.</strong></p>