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1) Frankenstein
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Beloved by horror fans across the globe, Frankenstein explores the terror of what happens when humanity plays God. Shattered by grief, the unstable Victor Frankenstein conducts a bizarre experiment, using electricity to galvanize inanimate matter and create an enormous man-like monster. Terrified by his own actions, Victor abandons his creation to the wilderness. Years later, the intelligent albeit hideous Creature finds his creator and poignantly...
2) Frankenstein
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"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley stands as a seminal work in Gothic literature, a narrative that delves into the dark recesses of human ambition, morality, and the consequences of playing god. Shelley's masterpiece, born from a stormy night's challenge among literary luminaries, weaves a haunting and tragic tale that reverberates with both philosophical depth and emotional intensity.
The story unfolds through the narrative of Captain Robert Walton,...
3) Frankenstein
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Frankenstein SparkNotes Literature Guide by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Making the reading experience fun!
When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis; explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols; a review quiz; and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes is perfect for late-night...
4) Frankenstein
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"La figura de Frankenstein ha pasado a la historia como sinónimo de terror y maldad. Formando parte de un mito que ha quedado instalado en nuestras mentes, influenciadas por las adaptaciones al cine y las manipulaciones que ha sufrido como representación del monstruo por excelencia. Sin embargo, la criatura creada por la escritora Mary Shelley tiene muchos rasgos humanos en los que todos nos podemos ver reflejados. Quizá por eso despierta nuestros...
5) Frankenstein
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Der Roman erzählt die Geschichte des jungen Schweizers Viktor Frankenstein, der an der damals berühmten Universität Ingolstadt einen künstlichen Menschen erschafft.
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the most famous of all science fiction stories whose influence is immeasurable is now seen in all its horror and tragedy. Told from the monster's point of view using the original text, witness the innocent creature brought to life and abandoned by its creator where all it finds is hate and fear. Vowing vengeance, it will not stop at nothing until everything Frankenstein holds dear is destroyed.
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It's a Universal Picture!From the Vaults of the Ackerman Archives.Contains Production Background!Press Book!Biography Notes on the Cast & Crew!Complete Shooting Script!Rare Photographs!Behind the Scene Photos! The first in the Universal Filmscripts Series from MagicImage.
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Presenting a faithful adaptation of the classic novel from Mary Shelley. Based on the original story itself rather than the various cinematic films, this is a rendition of Frankenstein, the haunting and sophisticated tale that you may not have seen before. Frankenstein (the name of the doctor and not of the monster itself!) is truly one of the great tragedies in written literature. Shunned by his creator, the monster is forced to find acceptance in...
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Safely tucked away inside the hollow earth where humanity survived after Ragna Rok, precocious young Lilja receives visions of a new darkness taking root on the surface.
Defying her elders, Lilja awakens the timeless oracle-once known as Frankenstein-to investigate the warnings and, perhaps, even explore the new world above.
Frankenstein: New World, from Mike Mignola, Thomas Sniegoski, Christopher Golden, artist Peter Bergting, and colorist...
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Dr. Victor Frankenstein and Egyptologist Naihla Khalil are both professors at a leading medical university. Victor's latest grisly "experiment" is the re-animated corpse of a sadistic madman and Naihla's most recent find is the cursed mummy of an evil pharaoh. When the two monsters face-off in an epic showdown, no one is safe from the slaughter. Can the murderous rampage be stopped and the carnage contained before it's too late?
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IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Halloween and Christmas collide in Ludworst Bemonster's unique send-up of "Twas the Night Before Christmas." Little monsters everywhere will be screaming with laughter in Frankenstein's Fright Before Christmas!
'Twas the night before Christmas and poor Miss Devel
Was hassled and harried and not feeling well...
Off in the distance she heard such a clatter
She sprang from her slab to see what was the matter.
Off down the stairs she flew like...
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"A Tale from the Ice" - First issue of a faithful adaptation of the classic novel from Mary Shelley. Based on the original story itself rather than the various cinematic films, this is a rendition of Frankenstein, the haunting and sophisticated tale that you have not seen before. Frankenstein (the name of the doctor and not of the monster itself!) is truly one of the great tragedies of literature. Shunned by his creator, the monster is forced to find...
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"Hunted" - Second issue of a faithful adaptation of the classic novel from Mary Shelley. Based on the original story itself rather than the various cinematic films, this is a rendition of Frankenstein, the haunting and sophisticated tale that you have not seen before. Frankenstein (the name of the doctor and not of the monster itself!) is truly one of the great tragedies of literature. Shunned by his creator, the monster is forced to find acceptance...
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Two centuries ago, a teenage genius created a monster that still walks among us. In 1818, Mary Shelley published Frankenstein, and in doing so set forth into the world a scientist and his monster. The daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, famed women's rights advocate, and William Godwin, radical political thinker and writer, Mary Shelley is considered the mother of the modern genres of horror and science fiction. At its core, however, Shelley's Frankenstein...
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Mit Frankenstein hat Mary Shelley 1818 eine mythische Gestalt erschaffen, die im Lauf des 20. Jahrhunderts durch teilweise sehr freie Verfilmungen eine ungeheure Popularität erlangt hat. Während der Name nun für alle möglichen Arten von Monstern steht, erzählt Shelley die phantastische Geschichte des Victor Frankenstein, der – an der Universität Ingolstadt – ein künstliches Wesen erschafft, das er nicht beherrschen kann. Das Monster sehnt...
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On a remote jungle island, a scientist toys with cryogenics and brain transplants Horseshoe Island lies just a few miles off the coast of Baja California, Mexico-impossibly far from the laws of the United States. Here, a doctor named Hobbes has built his labs to perform experiments on bodies cryogenically frozen for two decades or longer. He plans to heal those whom the medicine of the past was helpless to save, and his experiments may hold the key...