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| Bad Man by Dathan AuerbachWhat it's about: Five years after losing his three-year-old brother at a grocery store in their small Florida town, guilt-stricken 20-year-old Ben takes a job at the same store, becoming obsessed by the possibility that his creepy co-workers may have had a hand in the tot's mysterious disappearance.
For fans of: Southern Gothic literature, unreliable narrators, and the early works of Stephen King.
Author alert: Dathan Auerbach is the author of Penpal and is a frequent contributor to Reddit's popular NoSleep forum. |
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200 Years of Frankenstein
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| The Only Child by Andrew PyperWhat it is: a tense, gripping homage to classic monster tales; a globetrotting cat-and-mouse thriller.
Starring: driven forensic psychiatrist Lily Dominick (who's no stranger to violence) and her new patient Michael, who claims to be 200 years old and the inspiration for Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, and Mr. Hyde.
Author alert: Andrew Pyper is the bestselling author of The Demonologist. |
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Monster : a novel of Frankenstein
by Dave Zeltserman
Shattered and tortured after being wrongly accused of his beloved fiancée's murder, Friedrich of 19th-century Germany is subjected to a brutal lab experiment by Victor Frankenstein and the Marquis de Sade, who transform him into a violent and vengeful creature.
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Dean Koontz's Frankenstein : prodigal son. Volume one
by Chuck Dixon
In a graphic novel reworking of Mary Shelley's classic horror novel, detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison confront a vicious serial killer who stalks the streets in search of victims who possess the humanity missing in himself and uncover an ages-old conspiracy in which their quarry is not only a homicidal maniac but also his deranged maker. 60,000 first printing.
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The memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein
by Theodore Roszak
The story of Victor Frankenstein, his quest for forbidden knowledge, and his creation of the Creature is told through the voice of Elizabeth, Victor's doomed fiancee, in a candid, passionate retelling of Shelley's classic. 75,000 first printing. Tour.
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In the shadow of Frankenstein : tales of the modern Prometheus
by Stephen Jones
A collection of more than 20 dark and pulpy tales about the mad scientist and his cursed creation feature classic versions, including Mary Shelley's original, and modern retellings from Graham Masterson, Basil Copper, John Brunner and Guy N. Smith.
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| Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary ShelleyWhat it is: Mary Shelley's classic parable of mad scientist Victor Frankenstein and the creature he brings to grotesque and dangerously intelligent life, presented in its original edition.
Why it matters: A formative work of Gothic horror, Frankenstein is also widely regarded as one of the earliest works of science fiction.
Did you know? The result of a "ghost story" writing competition between Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron, Frankenstein was published anonymously when Shelley was only 20 years old. |
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The Frankenstein journals
by Scott Sonneborn
In this combination of two separately published works, J.D. discovers that he is the son of Frankenstein's monster, and armed with the Doctor's journal he sets out to find his "relatives"--the descendents and relations of the people whose body parts Doctor Frankenstein used.
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Young Frankenstein /DVD
Young Dr. Frankenstein returns to the old country to clear his family name and creates his own monster
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I, Frankenstein /Blu-Ray
After the death of his creator, Victor Frankenstein's monster finds himself caught up in a war between the ancient demon and gargoyle clans that threatens to destroy humanity.
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Brandon, Mississippi 39042
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