“Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated;…perhaps the component parts of a creature might be manufactured, brought together, and endued with vital warmth.”Mary Shelley “Alas! I had turned loose into the world a depraved wretch, whose delight was in carnage and misery…”Victor Frankenstein The catalyst for Frankenstein Mary Shelley explains, is that she and her husband …
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde none could come near me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh. This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde was pure evil. What a …
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, HP Lovecraft (1941)
…he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love of mystery and of the past was his undoing. He stumbled on things no mortal ought ever to know, and reached back through the years as no one ever should reach; and something came out …
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The Island of Dr. Moreau, HG Wells (1896)
These creatures you have seen are animals carven and wrought into new shapes. To that, to the study of the plasticity of living forms, my life has been devoted. There are so many ways to approach this novel: as a horror story, an adventure story, a scientific experiment gone bad. But it is definitely a …
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