Frankenstein by Mary Shelley & Diane Johnson

Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley with an introduction by Diane Johnson
 A Bantam Classic Book

"I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion." 

A summer evening's ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine's room, and a runaway imagination-fired by philosophical discussions with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley about science, galvanism, and the origins of life-conspired to produce for Marry Shelley this haunting night specter.

By morning, it had become the germ of her Romantic masterpiece Frankenstein. Written in 1816 when she was only nineteen; Mary Shelley's novel of "The Modern Prometheus" chillingly dramatized the dangerous potential of life begotten upon a laboratory table. 

A frightening creation myth for our own time; Frankenstein remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written and is an undisputed classic of its kind.