Frankenstein Omnibus

by Peter Haining

Book Overview

"Frankenstein", the story of the obsessed scientist's experiments to create life, has been the inspiration for an extensive group of short stories as well as movie and TV adaptations. This is a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785800417
• ISBN13: 9780785800415
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Booksales
• Length: 645 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

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An anthology in parts. The first is an introduction that has a short extract from Frankenstein, and various other early looks at variants on that theme, including the non-horrific and a spoof. The Future Eve is a short novel, even if it mentions it is a novelette in the intro. Then various treatments for stage and screen, including a play, and finally 'the archetypes' which includes monsters that may have inspired Shelley such as the Golem, and some other more recent stories that actually deal with the Monster or Frankensteins directly. Each piece is given an historical overview beforehand. Frankenstein Omnibus : The Creature Lives! - Mary W. Shelley Frankenstein Omnibus : The Reanimated Englishman - Mary W. Shelley Frankenstein Omnibus : The Mummy [short story] - Jane Webb Frankenstein Omnibus : The New Frankenstein - William Maginn Frankenstein Omnibus : The Bell-Tower - Herman Melville Frankenstein Omnibus : The Vivisector Vivisected - Sir Ronald Ross Frankenstein Omnibus : The Future Eve - Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and Florence Crewe-Jones Frankenstein Omnibus : The Incubated Girl [short story] - Fred T. Jane Frankenstein Omnibus : The Surgeon's Experiment - W. C. Morrow Frankenstein Omnibus : Some Experiments with a Head - Dick Donovan Frankenstein Omnibus : The New Frankenstein - E. E. Kellett Frankenstein Omnibus : The Man Who Made a Man - Harle Oren Cummins Frankenstein Omnibus : Frankenstein II - Leonard Merrick Frankenstein Omnibus : The Composite Brain - Robert S. Carr Frankenstein Omnibus : Demons Of the Film Colony - Theodore Leberthon Frankenstein Omnibus : Frankenstein: The Man Who Made a Monster - Garrett Ford and Francis Faragoh Frankenstein Omnibus : The Bride of Frankenstein - Guy Preston Frankenstein Omnibus : Heirs or the Workshop of Filthy Creation - Robert Muller and Brian Hayles Frankenstein Omnibus : The Dead Man - Fritz Leiber Frankenstein Omnibus : The Curse of Frankenstein - Jimmy Sangster Frankenstein Omnibus : Herbert WestReanimator - H. P. Lovecraft Frankenstein Omnibus : Transformation - Mary W. Shelley Frankenstein Omnibus : The Golem [short story] - Gustav Meyrink Frankenstein Omnibus : Death of a Professor - Michael Hervey Frankenstein Omnibus : FrankensteinUnlimited - H. A. Highstone Frankenstein Omnibus : It - Theodore Sturgeon Frankenstein Omnibus : Wednesday's Child - William Tenn Frankenstein Omnibus : Dial F for Frankenstein - Arthur C. Clarke Frankenstein Omnibus : The Plot Is the Thing - Robert Bloch Frankenstein Omnibus : Summertime Was Nearly Over - Brian W. Aldiss Frankenstein Omnibus : At Last the True Story of Frankenstein - Harry Harrison If you don't know about this, I always wanted to meet someone from another planet. 3.5 out of 5 Unfrozen bloke. 2 out of 5 22nd century Cheops gets to do the usual. 2 out of 5 It's Alive! (in Egypt). 2.5 out of 5 Clock creation and stuff go boom. 3 out of 5 Laboring to keep the experiment alive grows heated. 3.5 out of 5 Professor X make

and more stars also!!!!

It is not always possible to find a book in which there are as many good examples of the genre as possible about the same topic.This book satisfies my hunger for that.Many of the stories not only entertain you but also make you think,argue with the others and imagine further (as those great writers in the book once did) about the great mystery of the nature:Life!!!In some of the stories,analogies had been excellently set (as in Dial "F" For Frankenstein by A.C. Clarke) and considering all the works edited one can see the different implications and consequences of the man playing god,creating life (e.g romance in Future Eve,horror in The Reanimator etc.).We have to thank Peter Haining for so many great writers in one book,so do not miss it on earth!