Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics ‘ The rain pattered dismally against the panes & my candle was nearly burnt out when by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open…’ Victor Frankenstein’s monster is stitched together from the limbs of the dead taken from ‘the dissecting room & the slaughter-house’ The result is a grotesque being who rejected by his maker & starved of human companionship sets out on a journey to seek his revenge In the most famous gothic horror story ever told Shelley confronts the limitations of science the nature of human cruelty & the pathway to forgiveness Begun when Mary Shelley was only eighteen years old & published two years later this chilling tale of a young scientist’s desire to create life – & the consequences of that creation – still resonate today