 Mary Shelley English novelist Short story writer Dramatist Essayist Biographer Travel writer |
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A young Swiss student discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates a monster who vows revenge on his creator after being rejected from society.
A historical romance set in fourteenth century Italy that includes such Gothic elements as a gloomy castle full of secret passages, a witch, a Wandering Jew figure, and an albino dwarf.
An apocalyptic fantasy which follows Lionel Verney through a twenty- first -century world which has been depopulated by a plague.
It deals with father/daughter incest.
A novel focusing on the relationship between a young orphan and her protector.
It is the story of an alchemist's apprentice that examines the meaning and consequences of immortality.
It is a gothic fairy tale that focuses upon a deformed, Satanic dwarf who exchanges identities with a vindicative and dissolute youth.
It considers monstrosity, the double and family relationships. |
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Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818)
