Frankenstein

More than 200 years after it was first published Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has stood the test of time as a gothic masterpiece—a classic work of horror that blurs the line between man and monster.. “If I cannot inspire love I will cause fear.”. For centuries the story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created has held readers spellbound. On the surface it is a novel of tense and steadily mounting dread. On a more profound level it illuminates the triumph and tragedy of the human condition in its portrayal of a scientist who oversteps the bounds of conscience and of a creature tortured by the solitude of a world in which he does not belong. A novel of almost hallucinatory intensity Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein represents one of the most striking flowerings of the Romantic imagination.   . With an Introduction by Douglas Clegg And an Afterword by Harold Bloom