In the Shadow of Frankenstein: Tales of the Modern Prometheus
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The Monster’s made—
Now be afraid,
Dear Frankenstein.
For what’s created
Can’t be sedated
And hope’s outdated—
Pray, Frankenstein.
The Monster walks
And sort-of talks,
But his brain baulks—
Poor Frankenstein.
And when he’s killed,
The town is stilled,
Then Hell’s revealed
To Frankenstein.
I guess ’tis best
That theories rest,
For damned the test
Of Frankenstein …
About the Editor
Stephen Jones lives in London, England. A Hugo Award nominee, he is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, three International Horror Guild Awards, four Bram Stoker Awards, twenty-one British Fantasy Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Horror Association. One of Britain’s most acclaimed horror and dark fantasy writers and editors, he has more than 140 books to his credit, including the film books of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and Stardust, The Art of Horror: An Illustrated History, The Illustrated Monster Movie Guide and The Hellraiser Chronicles, the nonfiction studies Horror: 100 Best Books and Horror: Another 100 Best Books (both with Kim Newman), the author collections Necronomicon and Eldritch Tales by H. P. Lovecraft, The Complete Chronicles of Conan and Conan’s Brethren by Robert E. Howard, and Curious Warnings: The Great Ghost Stories of M. R. James, plus such anthologies as Horrorlogy: The Lexicon of Fear, Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome, A Book of Horrors, The Mammoth Book of Vampires, the Zombie Apocalypse! series and the Best New Horror series. You can visit his web site at www.stephenjoneseditor.com or follow him on Facebook at Stephen JonesEditor.
Acknowledgments and Credits
Thanks to Duncan Proudfoot, Claiborne Hancock, Neil Gaiman, Stephen Volk and Jo Fletcher for all their help.
“Foreword” copyright © Neil Gaiman 2014, 2015. Originally published in slightly different form as “My Hero: Mary Shelley” in The Guardian, October 18, 2014.
“Introduction: It’s Alive!” copyright © Stephen Jones, 1994, 2015.
“Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus” by Mary W. Shelley. Originally published in 1818, revised in 1831.
“A New Life” copyright © Ramsey Campbell 1987. Originally published in Winter Chills 1. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Creator” copyright © R. Chetwynd-Hayes 1978. Originally published in The Cradle Demon. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.
“Better Dead” copyright © Basil Copper 1994.
“Creature Comforts” copyright © Nancy Kilpatrick 1994.
“Mannikins of Horror” copyright © Weird Tales 1939, copyright © renewed 1967 by Robert Bloch. Originally published in Weird Tales, December 1939. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agent.
“El Sueño de la Razón” copyright © Daniel Fox 1994.
“Pithecanthropus Rejectus” copyright © Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 1937. Originally published in Astounding Stories, January 1938. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.
“Tantamount to Murder” copyright © Brunner Fact & Fiction Ltd., 1994.
“Last Train” copyright © Guy N. Smith 1994.
“The Hound of Frankenstein’’ copyright © Peter Tremayne 1977. Originally published in The Hound of Frankenstein. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agent.
“Mother of Invention” copyright © Graham Masterton 1994.
“The Frankenstein Legacy” copyright © Adrian Cole 1994.
“The Dead Line” copyright © Stuart David Schiff 1979. Copyright © Dennis Etchison 1982. Originally published in Whispers Number 13-14, October 1979. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Poppi’s Monster” copyright © Lisa Morton 1994.
“Undertow” copyright © Stuart David Schiff 1977. Originally published in Whispers Number 10, August 1977. Reprinted by permission of The Karl Edward Wagner Literary Group.
“A Complete Woman” copyright © Roberta Lannes 1994.
“Last Call for the Sons of Shock” copyright © David J. Schow 1991. Originally published in The Ultimate Frankenstein. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Chandira” copyright © Brian Mooney 1994.
“Celebrity Frankenstein” copyright © Stephen Volk 2012. Originally published in Exotic Gothic 4: Postscripts 28/29. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Completist Heaven” copyright © Kim Newman 1994.
“The Temptation of Dr. Stein” copyright © Paul McAuley 1994.
“To Receive is Better” copyright © Michael Marshall Smith 1994.
“The Dead End’’ copyright © David Case 1969. Originally published in The Cell and Other Tales of Horror. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Frankenstein” copyright © Jo Fletcher 1994.
IN THE SHADOW OF FRANKENSTEIN
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