19세기 천재 작가 메리 셸리가 열아홉의 나이에 놀라운 상상력으로 탄생시킨 과학소설의 고전. 무생물에 생명을 부여할 수 있는 방법을 알아낸 물리학자 프랑켄슈타인이 시체로 만든 괴물에 생명을 불어넣는다. 인간 이상의 힘을 발휘하는 괴물은 추악한 자신을 만든 창조주에 대한 증오심에서 복수를 꾀한다.

'That rare story to pass from literature into myth' The New York Times

Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley on Lake Geneva. The story of Victor Frankenstein who, obsessed with creating life itself, plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, but whose botched creature sets out to destroy his maker, would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity. Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all Mary Shelley's revisions to her story, and also includes 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidori's 'The Vampyre: A Tale'.

Edited with an Introduction and notes by MAURICE HINDLE