Lock all the doors, turn the lights off, grab a torch and prepare yourself for one of the most chilling nightmares ever written! This edition includes extensive background information.
In his private laboratory, Dr Henry Frankenstein experiments with the scientific forces behind the creation and preservation of life. Finally, with the help of his assistant, Frankenstein assembles a living being from parts of unearthed corpses. But the dire and terrifying consequences of giving it life are beyond his imagination in this chilling, gothic tale of a creature that inflicts murder on the human race.
Novelist and poet Benjamin Zephaniah introduces the novel, telling what got him hooked on the book. And an information section at the back covers breaking news, fashion, crime and punishment and music from the time when the novel was published.
