Frankenstein
Shelley's most famous novel and the best-known entry point into her work.
Author guide
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley was a British writer, best known for Frankenstein and for a body of fiction and prose that includes novels, short stories, travel writing, and journals. The daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, she also edited and promoted the work of Percy Bysshe Shelley and remained an important voice in Romantic-era literature.
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The Last Man
A major later novel that shows Shelley's apocalyptic imagination.
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Books by series
- 1 Manga Classics: FrankensteinAmazon ↗
graphic_novel · 2020
collection series · unknown
Pandaemonium
- 1 The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by WomenAmazon ↗
Book 6 · anthology · 2010
Outside the series
Standalone and other books
- FrankensteinAmazon ↗
novel · 1818
- The Last ManAmazon ↗
novel · 1826
- MathildaAmazon ↗
novella · 1959
- The Mortal ImmortalAmazon ↗
short_story · 1831
- TransformationAmazon ↗
short_story · 1831
- Bernie Wrightson's FrankensteinAmazon ↗
comic · 1983
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LodoreAmazon ↗novel · 1835
- History of a Six Weeks' Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland: With Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva, and of the Glaciers of ChamouniAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1817
- Rambles In Germany And Italy, In 1840, 1842, And 1843Amazon ↗
nonfiction
- Maurice, or, The Fisher's Cot: A TaleAmazon ↗
novella · 1820
- The Heir of MondolfoAmazon ↗
short_story · 1877
- The Evil EyeAmazon ↗
short_story · 1830
- The Journals of Mary ShelleyAmazon ↗
collection · 1987
- The Complete Works of Mary ShelleyAmazon ↗
collection · 1996
- A Year Without a WinterAmazon ↗
anthology · 2018
- Dystopia Utopia Short StoriesAmazon ↗
anthology · 2016
- Classics of Horror: Dracula & FrankensteinAmazon ↗
anthology · 1991
- Frankenstein / Dracula / Dr. Jekyll And Mr. HydeAmazon ↗
anthology · 1978
- Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; FrankensteinAmazon ↗
anthology · 1994
- Classic Tales of HorrorAmazon ↗
anthology · 2004
- Classic Ghost Stories: Tales of horror, mystery and the supernaturalAmazon ↗
anthology · 2006
- The Ultimate Sci Fi CollectionAmazon ↗
anthology · 2019
- The Birth of Science in Fiction - Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th CenturyAmazon ↗
anthology · 1981
- Middle Unearthed: The Best Fantasy Short Stories 1800-1849Amazon ↗
anthology · 2015
- The Mary Shelley ReaderAmazon ↗
collection · 1990
- The Classic Gothic Horror CollectionAmazon ↗
anthology · 2021
- Selected Vampire StoriesAmazon ↗
anthology · 2014
- The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian LadiesAmazon ↗
anthology · 1967
- Ghostly Tales from the Lost Summer of 1816 - Frankenstein, The Vampyre & Other Stories from the Villa DiodatiAmazon ↗
anthology · 2019
- Four Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Monk; FrankensteinAmazon ↗
anthology · 1994
- Five Gothic Masterpieces: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Great God Pan, Frankenstein, Carmilla, and DraculaAmazon ↗
anthology · 2017
- The Horror Collection: Dracula, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and FrankensteinAmazon ↗
anthology · 2012
- The Greatest Sci-Fi ClassicsAmazon ↗
anthology · 2018
- Mary ; Maria ; MatildaAmazon ↗
anthology · 1992
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: A stage adaptation by Patrick SandfordAmazon ↗
screenplay · 2012
- Frankenstein - playscript adapted by Philip PullmanAmazon ↗
screenplay · 1990
- Frankenstein: The Graphic NovelAmazon ↗
graphic_novel · 2008
- Mary Shelley's Frankeinstein: A Graphic NovelAmazon ↗
graphic_novel · 2016
- Frankenstein Diaries: The Romantics: The Secret Memoirs of Mary ShelleyAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 2015
- Frankenstein: A Guide to Reading and ReflectingAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 2021