Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | Wordsworth Empress Edition | Hardcover Book Exclusively designed cover by Carmen Di Mauro Gold foil blocking combined with spot-gloss UV on a matte laminated dust jacket Textured hardback cover complete with matching foil blocking (on front, spine and back) Full coloured hand-designed patterned endpapers Digitally sprayed edged on all 3 sides in full colour Co-ordinating head and tail bands Matching ribbon marker Bespoke design chapter headers Book Size: Royal – 156 mm x 234 mm Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would ‘curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart.’ The tale is a superb blend of science fiction, mystery and thriller. Victor Frankenstein driven by the mad dream of creating his own creature, experiments with alchemy and science to build a monster stitched together from dead remains. Once the creature becomes a living breathing articulate entity, it turns on its maker and the novel darkens into tragedy. The reader is very quickly swept along by the force of the elegant prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multi-layered themes in the novel. Although first published in 1818, Shelley’s masterpiece still maintains a strong grip on the imagination and has been the inspiration for numerous horror movies, television and stage adaptations. This edition uses the 1831 version of the text. This edition includes a new afterword by Dr Sally Minogue