Author: Sheila English Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781537375212 Category : Languages : en Pages : 232
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What if the Frankenstein creature didn't die in a fire, a crumbling castle or on a glacier? What if he never died at all? Adam Frankenstein, a product of science and magic. A creature of horror, come-to-life. In this re-imagining of Mary Shelley's famous creature, Adam is still alive and his stories are that of legend. A lonely and reluctant hero looking for redemption and salvation through the ages. Four stories, through the years, follow Adam as he struggles to understand his place in a world of men who would reject him, kill him. He looks to create humanity in himself while questioning those who were born with it. Mary Shelley's League of Supernatural Hunters: Origins of Adam Mary Shelley learns of supernatural creatures and real meaning of the word monster as she encounters a man unlike any other. A creature not born of woman, but created from the body of a circus strongman killed while trying to save a lion tamer. She must decide who to trust, the vampire, the witch, the mad scientist or the creature. Either way, Mary's seen enough to know she will need an army to fight those things not easily killed. Frankenstein's Companion 19th century England, friendless and alone in the world, Adam Frankenstein, the creation of a mad scientist and his witch lover, becomes an assassin for hire. When a powerful mage hires him to find his kidnapped daughter and kill the man who took her, Adam strikes a bargain of his own. The mage has an immortal dog and Adam will do anything to own it. The Therapist and the Dead Brooklyn, New York in the 1980's was a place where monsters could blend in. Life has been long and cruel, so Adam keeps his appointment with Dr. Stein, the most expensive and sought after psychologist in the city, to talk of immortality and murder. Adam Frankenstein, U.S. Marshal Adam joins the 21st Century, and takes up residence in Houston, Texas. While waiting for his next mission from the League of Supernatural Hunters, he becomes Adam Frank, U.S. Marshal. His new partner is Marshal Rebecca Hughes, a by-the-book woman with a non-nonsense approach to life, with no idea who he really is, but that's all about to change. When he wakes up dead and learns someone has stolen his dog, Texas may not be big enough to hold his wrath.
Author: Adam Rex Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0547539738 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 48
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No one ever said it was easy being a monster. Take Frankenstein, for instance: He just wants to marry his undead bride in peace, but his best man, Dracula, is freaking out about the garlic bread. Then there’s the Headless Horseman, who wishes everyone would stop drooling over his delicious pumpkin head. And can someone please tell Edgar Allan Poe to get the door already before the raven completely loses it? Sheesh. In a wickedly funny follow-up to the bestselling Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich, Adam Rex once again proves that monsters are just like you and me. (Well, sort of.)
Author: Sheila English Publisher: Reader's Entertainment ISBN: 9781684544899 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 24
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The immortal legend finds himself in modern-day Houston, Texas as a U.S. Marshal. Waking up half dead was unexpected. Finding out that an infamous dog fighting ring stole his immortal dog turns Adam Frankenstein into the monster he was created to be.
Author: Fred Saberhagen Publisher: JSS Literary Productions, LLC ISBN: 1937422240 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 240
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Fred Saberhagen told Dracula’s story from Dracula’s point of view. Now, read Saberhagen’s tale of Frankenstein’s monster, as the monster/creation tells it. Who or what was this creation?
Author: Sango Harukawa Publisher: Yen Press LLC ISBN: 1975340302 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 166
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Yokohama may be peaceful, but there’s never a dull moment as the agency enters a dance contestand gathers around to tell spooky stories. However, what if the series took a different path? What if the agency was a patisserie instead? What if Bungo Stray Dogs was about actual dogs? Or most unbelievable of all—what if Chuuya had agrowth spurt?
Author: Sango Harukawa Publisher: Yen Press LLC ISBN: 1975340426 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 134
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Atsushi and Akutagawa butt heads! Dazai and Chuuya also butt heads! Whether it’s the Port Mafia getting in on the virtual reality boom or the kids at Bungo Day Care figuring out how to deal with a ghost, the cast of Bungo Stray Dogs have their mature moments...and some childish ones, too. But through it all, one thing’s for sure—no one in Yokohama is getting any work done today!
Author: Nick Dear Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571277225 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 103
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Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal.Urgent concerns of scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing classic gothic tale.Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, adapted for the stage by Nick Dear, premiered at the National Theatre, London, in February 2011.
Author: Shelley Publisher: ISBN: 9789356845138 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Frankenstein is a novel by Mary Shelley. It was first published in 1818. Ever since its publication, the story of Frankenstein has remained brightly in the imagination of the readers and literary circles across the countries. In the novel, an English explorer in the Arctic, who assists Victor Frankenstein on the final leg of his chase, tells the story. As a talented young medical student, Frankenstein strikes upon the secret of endowing life to the dead. He becomes obsessed with the idea that he might make a man. The Outcome is a miserable and an outcast who seeks murderous revenge for his condition. Frankenstein pursues him when the creature flees. It is at this juncture t that Frankenstein meets the explorer and recounts his story, dying soon after. Although it has been adapted into films numerous times, they failed to effectively convey the stark horror and philosophical vision of the novel. Shelley's novel is a combination of Gothic horror story and science fiction.
Author: Sheila English
Author: Adam Rex
Author: Adam Rex
Author: Sheila English
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Author: Sango Harukawa
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