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Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818)

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by Mary Shelley about a monster produced by an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously in London [...]

Classic Literature Archive, Novels

The Vampyre; A Tale by John Polidori (1819)

“The Vampyre” is a short story or novella written in 1819 by John William Polidori which is a progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. The work is described by Christopher Frayling as “the first story successfully to fuse the disparate elements of vampirism into a coherent literary genre.” [...]

Classic Literature Archive, Novellas and Short Stories