Mary: The Adventures of Mary Shelley's Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Granddaughter

By Brea Grant and Yishan Li

When angsty teenager Mary Shelley is not interested in carrying on her family’s celebrated legacy of being a great writer, but she soon discovers that she has the not-so-celebrated and super-secret Shelley power to heal monsters, just like her famous ancestor, and those monsters are not going to let her ignore her true calling anytime soon.

Everyone expects sixteen-year-old Mary to be a great writer. After all, her mother, her aunt, and her grandmother are all successful writers (as they constantly remind her)—not to mention her famous namesake, the OG Mary Shelley, horror author extraordinaire. But Mary is pretty sure she’s not cut out for that life. She can’t even stay awake in class! Then one dark and rainy night, she’s confronted with a whole new destiny. Mary has the ability to heal monsters… and they’re not going to leave her alone until she does.

With the help of a mysterious (and mysteriously cute) stranger, a Harpy, a possessed stuffed bunny, and her BFF Rhonda, Mary must uncover her family’s darkest secret if she’s going to save the monster world… and herself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Six Foot Press
• Release date: Oct 6, 2020
• ISBN: 9781644420485

Brea Grant

Brea Grant is a filmmaker/writer best known for co-writing/directing the apocalyptic feature, Best Friends Forever, and acting on shows like Heroes and Dexter and features like Halloween II and Dead Night. She has co-written two comic series -- We Will Bury You, a 1920s zombie series, and The Suicide Girls, based on the popular website. She also wrote a short story for the collection Zombies vs Robots: This Means War! She wrote and created the series, The Real Housewives of Horror for Nerdist and most recently wrote and directed an episode of the Netflix show, EastSiders. As if she’s not busy enough, she also co-hosts a weekly podcast called Reading Glasses on the Maximum Fun network. You can currently see her award-winning short Feminist Campfire Stories on Funny or Die and her acting work on the series The Arrangement. She wrote and will star in a feminist slasher called Lucky later this year. In her spare time, she enjoys reading science fiction and watching too much TV while pretending like it's research. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

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Reviews for Mary

[Kristen · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Loved this! I’m new to graphic novels but the art in here is perfect for the story. And the story is so good, I really hope there are more so I can see what happens next.

[reconditereader · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I loved this book! Mary's kind of an angsty teen, although I love that her family has instilled "proper syntax" as a highly important value. The dialog is amusing, the art is lovely and sometimes funny, and the 3-generation household of women is a trip. I wish I were as cool as Aunt Macy.And I demand more Rhonda.