A scientist oversteps the bounds of conscience and brings to life a tortured creation.
A young adventurer succumbs to the night world of a diabolic count.
A man of medicine explores his darker side only to fall prey to it.
They are the legendary tales that have held readers spellbound for more than a century. The titles alone - "Frankenstein, Dracula and Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde" - have become part of a universal language that serves to put a monster's face on the good-and-evil duality of a very human nature. And the authors - Mary Shelley, Bram Stiker, and Robert Louis Stevenson - equally as mythic, are still possessed of an inventive and subversive power that can shake a reader to this day with something far more profound than fear. They gave root to the modern horror novel, and like the creatures they invented, they've achieved immortality.
