Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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The Last Man is an early post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The plague gradually kills off all people. Lionel Verney, central...

Written in 1816, when she was only nineteen Mary Shelley’s novel of “The Modern Prometheus” chillingly dramatised the dangerous potential of life begotten upon a laboratory table. A frightening creation myth for our own time. Frankenstein remains one...

Frankenstein (dramatic reading)

Frankenstein (dramatic reading)

Mary Shelley's 1818 novel presents the Faustian story of a man who aspires to create life out of death, with disastrous results. The novel is constructed as a series of first-person narratives, delivered by Captain Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein,...

Victor Frankenstein has no idea the horrors he is to unleash when at the University Town of Ingolstadt he creates a living being from dead tissue. This begins a cycle of death, remorse, murder and horror that only his death will put to an end....

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

A student discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster Frankenstein. Rejected by society, Frankenstein vows revenge on his creator.(Summary written by Gesine)Note: Project originally cataloged...

The second novel from Mary Shelley, written in 1819/20 but not published in full until 1959. The story deals with common Romantic themes, but also incest and suicide.Narrating from her deathbed, Mathilda tells the story of her unnamed father’s...

Scary Short Stories

Scary Short Stories

With this collection, listeners will be taken on a journey through the darkest corners of the human imagination. From the supernatural to the psychological, these stories are sure to leave a lasting impression and keep listeners hooked until the very...

Guido has lost it all. At rock bottom, and while wandering the shore, Guido spies a misshapen creature floating toward him in the water, riding on a huge chest. The creature offers Guido a path of revenge – switching bodies for three days in exchange...

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Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A precursor to gothic literature and science fiction genres, Frankenstein is a novel fuming with imagination as it depicts a well known horror story. Shelly’s gothic fiction is written in epistolary form as a means of correspondence between the failed...

The Last Man is an early post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The plague gradually kills off all people. Lionel Verney, central...

Written in 1816, when she was only nineteen Mary Shelley’s novel of “The Modern Prometheus” chillingly dramatised the dangerous potential of life begotten upon a laboratory table. A frightening creation myth for our own time. Frankenstein remains one...

Frankenstein (dramatic reading)

Frankenstein (dramatic reading)

Mary Shelley's 1818 novel presents the Faustian story of a man who aspires to create life out of death, with disastrous results. The novel is constructed as a series of first-person narratives, delivered by Captain Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein,...

Victor Frankenstein has no idea the horrors he is to unleash when at the University Town of Ingolstadt he creates a living being from dead tissue. This begins a cycle of death, remorse, murder and horror that only his death will put to an end....

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

A student discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster Frankenstein. Rejected by society, Frankenstein vows revenge on his creator.(Summary written by Gesine)Note: Project originally cataloged...

The second novel from Mary Shelley, written in 1819/20 but not published in full until 1959. The story deals with common Romantic themes, but also incest and suicide.Narrating from her deathbed, Mathilda tells the story of her unnamed father’s...

Scary Short Stories

Scary Short Stories

With this collection, listeners will be taken on a journey through the darkest corners of the human imagination. From the supernatural to the psychological, these stories are sure to leave a lasting impression and keep listeners hooked until the very...

Guido has lost it all. At rock bottom, and while wandering the shore, Guido spies a misshapen creature floating toward him in the water, riding on a huge chest. The creature offers Guido a path of revenge – switching bodies for three days in exchange...