Taut, tense, terrifying. Prizewinning author Marcus Sedgwick writes of the monsters we create in literature and in our own minds in this reappraisal of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein.
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Marcus Sedgwick |
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Do monsters always stay in the book where they were born? Are they content to live out their lives on paper, and never step foot into the real world? \r\n\r\nThe Villa Diodati, on the shore of Lake Geneva, 1816: the Year without Summer. As Byron, Polidori, and Mr and Mrs Shelley shelter from the unexpected weather, old ghost stories are read and new ghost stories imagined. Born by the twin brains of the Shelleys is Frankenstein, one of the most influential tales of horror of all time. \r\n\r\nIn a remote mountain house, high in the French Alps, an author broods on Shelleys creation. Reality and perception merge, fuelled by poisoned thoughts. Humankind makes monsters; but who really creates who? This is a book about reason, the imagination, and the creative act of reading and writing. Marcus Sedgwicks ghostly, menacing novel celebrates the legacy of Mary Shelleys literary debut in its bicentenary year.
