Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy award-winning director Guillermo del Toro.
A stunningly creepy deluxe hardcover edition with spot gloss, black sprayed edges, black-stained pages, and black endpapers.
Part of a six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro.
Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro's favorites, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Ray Russell's short story "Sardonicus," considered by Stephen King to be "perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written," to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and stories by Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Ted Klein, and Robert E. Howard. Featuring original cover art by Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, these stunningly creepy deluxe hardcovers will be perfect additions to the shelves of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal aficionados everywhere.
Frankenstein
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship . . . and horror.
Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy award-winning director Guillermo del Toro.
A stunningly creepy deluxe hardcover edition with spot gloss, black sprayed edges, black-stained pages, and black endpapers.
Part of a six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro.
Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro's favorites, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Ray Russell's short story "Sardonicus," considered by Stephen King to be "perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written," to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and stories by Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Ted Klein, and Robert E. Howard. Featuring original cover art by Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, these stunningly creepy deluxe hardcovers will be perfect additions to the shelves of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal aficionados everywhere.
Frankenstein
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship . . . and horror.
Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy award-winning director Guillermo del Toro.
MARY SHELLEY was born in London in 1797, daughter of William Godwin
and Mary Wollstonecraft, famous radical writers of the day. In 1814
she met and soon fell in love with the then-unknown Percy Bysshe
Shelley. In December 1816, after Shelley's first wife committed
suicide, Mary and Percy married. They lived in Italy from 1818
until 1822, when Shelley drowned, whereupon Mary returned to London
to live as a professional writer of novels, stories, and essays
until her death in 1851.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO is a Mexican director, producer, screenwriter,
novelist, and designer. He both cofounded the Guadalajara
International Film Festival and formed his own production
company-the Tequila Gang. However, he is most recognized for his
Academy Award-winning film, Pan's Labyrinth, and the Hellboy film
franchise. He has received Nebula and Hugo awards, was nominated
for a Bram Stoker Award, and is an avid collector and student of
arcane memorabilia and weird fiction.
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA is the author of the bestselling novel The
Historian. She graduated from Yale and holds an MFA from the
University of Michigan.
Praise for Penguin Horror Classics:
“The new Penguin Horror editions, selected by Guillermo del Toro,
feature some of the best art-direction (by Paul Buckley) I've seen
in a cover in quite some time.” – Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
"Each cover does a pretty spectacular job of evoking the mood of
the title in bold, screenprint-style iconography." – Dan Solomon,
Fast Company
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