Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus

Written by Mary W. Shelley

Narrated by Julie Harris

Award-winning actress Julie Harris delivers a chilling reading of the most famous and compelling horror story of all time.
Victor Frankenstein is a young scientist whose experiments in alchemy lead to a disturbing achievement—the ability to create new life from dead body parts. His ultimate creation—a large, monstrous creature—wreaks havoc, but in ways much different from those depicted on film. To hear the original tale, curl up on a lonely evening—with lights low and perhaps a storm raging outside—and return to the 19th century to experience a classic evocation of the macabre story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Phoenix Books, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 31, 1983
• ISBN: 9781614676508

Mary W. Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, into a life of personal tragedy. In 1816, she married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and that summer traveled with him and a host of other Romantic intellectuals to Geneva. Her greatest achievement was piecing together one of the most terrifying and renowned stories of all time: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Shelley said she conceived of Frankenstein in “a waking dream.” This vision was simply of a student kneeling before a corpse brought to life. Yet this tale of a mad creator and his abomination has inspired a multitude of storytellers and artists. She died on February 1, 1851.