Beloved by horror fans across the globe, Frankenstein explores the terror of what happens when humanity plays God. Shattered by grief, the unstable Victor Frankenstein conducts a bizarre experiment, using electricity to galvanize inanimate matter and create an enormous man-like monster. Terrified by his own actions, Victor abandons his creation to the wilderness. Years later, the intelligent albeit hideous Creature finds his creator and poignantly demands his right to happiness. A tragedy of murderous rage and the fatal ramifications of revenge, Mary Shelley’s iconic novel has been terrifying readers since the nineteenth century. And now this time-honored classic is available as an exclusive collector’s edition.  

Mary Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist best known for her 1818 Gothic horror novel Frankenstein, which not only inspired generations of writers of the dark and macabre, but also is considered by many the prototypical science-fiction novel.

Shelley was born in London to philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who died shortly after Shelley’s birth. Raised by her father, she was well educated and deeply versed in Godwin’s anarchist political notions. She married Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of her father’s political followers, in 1816. It was during a trip to Geneva, Switzerland, with her husband and Lord Byron, that she famously conceived the idea for Frankenstein, the result of a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After her husband drowned in a sailing accident, Shelley returned to England to devote herself to raising their only surviving child and writing professionally. Along with Frankenstein, Shelley authored the novels Valperga, Perkin Warbeck, The Last Man, Lodore, and Falkner, as well as travelogues, short stories, and children’s literature. She died of a brain tumor at the age of 53.

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