The Transformation (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

<p><strong>What if the price of true beauty was the surrender of your very soul?</strong></p><p>Guido a proud impoverished young man stands on the brink of ruin. His only recourse is to accept a desperate bargain: a mysterious dwarf offers him untold riches and release from his misery but only in exchange for a horrifying seven-month trial.</p><p>The contract is simple: Guido must swap bodies with the hideous creature.</p><p>He awakens to find himself trapped in a grotesquely deformed shell while the dwarf walks away in Guido's handsome newly rejuvenated form intent on stealing his fiance and his future. Trapped in a nightmare of his own making Guido begins a frantic desperate journey to reclaim his life and his identity before the contract expires and the transformation becomes eternal.</p><p>From the legendary author of <em>Frankenstein</em> <em>The Transformation</em> is a chilling and brilliantly dark exploration of the profound misery of vanity and egotism and the terrifying power of a soul divorced from its body.</p><p><strong>You may change your face but you can never escape the monster within.</strong></p>