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The Frankenstein Omnibus

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It is not always possible to find a book in which there are as many good examples of the genre as possible about the same topic.This book satisfies my hunger for that.Many of the stories not only entertain you but also make you think,argue with the others and imagine further (as those great writers in the book once did) about the great mystery of the nature:Life!!!In some of the stories,analogies had been excellently set (as in Dial "F" For Frankenstein by A.C. Clarke) and considering all the works edited one can see the different implications and consequences of the man playing god,creating life (e.g romance in Future Eve,horror in The Reanimator etc.).We have to thank Peter Haining for so many great writers in one book,so do not miss it on earth!

This long book reprints dozens of stories that were inspired by Mary Shelly's classic Frankenstein. That may sound repetitive, but it really isn't, because the different authors tackle the subject in different ways. Not all the stories are great, but they are all at least interesting. Recommended for fans of Frankenstein.

An anthology in parts. The first is an introduction that has a short extract from Frankenstein, and various other early looks at variants on that theme, including the non-horrific and a spoof. The Future Eve is a short novel, even if it mentions it is a novelette in the intro.

Then various treatments for stage and screen, including a play, and finally 'the archetypes' which includes monsters that may have inspired Shelley such as the Golem, and some other more recent stories that actually deal with the Monster or Frankensteins directly.

Each piece is given an historical overview beforehand.

Frankenstein Omnibus : The Creature Lives! - Mary W. Shelley
Frankenstein Omnibus : The Reanimated Englishman - Mary W. Shelley
Frankenstein Omnibus : The Mummy [short story] - Jane Webb
Frankenstein Omnibus : The New Frankenstein - William Maginn
Frankenstein Omnibus : The Bell-Tower - Herman Melville
Frankenstein Omnibus : The Vivisector Vivisected - Sir Ronald Ross
Frankenstein Omnibus : The Future Eve - Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and Florence Crewe-Jones
Frankenstein Omnibus : The Incubated Girl [short story] - Fred T. Jane
Frankenstein Omnibus : The Surgeon's Experiment - W. C. Morrow
Frankenstein Omnibus : Some Experiments with a Head - Dick Donovan
Frankenstein Omnibus : The New Frankenstein - E. E. Kellett
Frankenstein Omnibus : The Man Who Made a Man - Harle Oren Cummins
Frankenstein Omnibus : Frankenstein II - Leonard Merrick
Frankenstein Omnibus : The Composite Brain - Robert S. Carr
Frankenstein Omnibus : Demons Of the Film Colony - Theodore Leberthon
Frankenstein Omnibus : Frankenstein: The Man Who Made a Monster - Garrett Ford and Francis Faragoh
Frankenstein Omnibus : The Bride of Frankenstein - Guy Preston
Frankenstein Omnibus : Heirs or the Workshop of Filthy Creation - Robert Muller and Brian Hayles
Frankenstein Omnibus : The Dead Man - Fritz Leiber
Frankenstein Omnibus : The Curse of Frankenstein - Jimmy Sangster
Frankenstein Omnibus : Herbert West'Reanimator - H. P. Lovecraft
Frankenstein Omnibus : Transformation - Mary W. Shelley
Frankenstein Omnibus : The Golem [short story] - Gustav Meyrink
Frankenstein Omnibus : Death of a Professor - Michael Hervey
Frankenstein Omnibus : Frankenstein'Unlimited - H. A. Highstone
Frankenstein Omnibus : It - Theodore Sturgeon
Frankenstein Omnibus : Wednesday's Child - William Tenn
Frankenstein Omnibus : Dial F for Frankenstein - Arthur C. Clarke
Frankenstein Omnibus : The Plot Is the Thing - Robert Bloch
Frankenstein Omnibus : Summertime Was Nearly Over - Brian W. Aldiss
Frankenstein Omnibus : At Last the True Story of Frankenstein - Harry Harrison





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3.5 out of 5


Unfrozen bloke.

2 out of 5


22nd century Cheops gets to do the usual.

2 out of 5


It's Alive! (in Egypt).

2.5 out of 5


Clock creation and stuff go boom.

3 out of 5


Laboring to keep the experiment alive grows heated.

3.5 out of 5


Professor X makes superwoman.

2.5 out of 5


Papyrus chick instructions.

3 out of 5


You will pay me to kill you? Then I add on a robot head and make you walk around? Sure, that'll end well.

4 out of 5


Guillotine boof extension convo experiment.

3.5 out of 5


Artifical woman only beautiful to some.

3 out of 5


Don't help mad scientists.

3.5 out of 5


Play monster.

2.5 out of 5


Especially don't help mad scientists who are your uncle.

4 out of 5


"IT'S ALIVE!"

3.5 out of 5


One really tall ugly chick please.

3 out of 5


Club Of the Damned descendant tale.

3 out of 5


Psychosomatic death control revenant rebound.

3.5 out of 5


If I only had a brain.

3.5 out of 5


Fresh bodies needed for zombie study? Find a great war.

4 out of 5


Well, dwarf me.

2.5 outof 5


Carve, man.

3 out of 5


Mini monster make.

3 out of 5


A Great Brain buster.

3.5 out of 5


Mud man grandpa bones deals with hunters piecemeal until all washed up.

4 out of 5


Artificial girl cycle.

3.5 out of 5


Phone exchange Is Alive.

3.5 out of 5


Horror movie reality.

4 out of 5


Monster trap.

4 out of 5


Zombie report.

4 out of 5


Lugosi-Karloff scareoff.

3.5 out of 5




3.5 out of 5