Frankenstein: Dead and Alive

Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553907433
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Now the mesmerizing saga concludes. . . . As a devastating hurricane approaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin to spin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests with Victor’s first, failed attempt to build the perfect human. Deucalion’s centuries-old history began as the original manifestation of a soulless vision–and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victor’s malignant mind could have conceived–an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind’s collective nightmare with powers, and a purpose, beyond imagining. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City.

Dean Koontz's Frankenstein

Author: Dean Ray Koontz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780007203123
Category : Horror tales, American
Languages : en
Pages : 455

Book Description
Detective Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison join forces with their former adversary to confront a new threat to humanity.

Teen Frankenstein: High School Horror

Author: Chandler Baker
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250058740
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
High school meets classic horror in this groundbreaking new series from the creators of The Hills, Laguna Beach, and Teen Wolf!

Frankenstein: Prodigal Son

Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553593323
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498

Book Description
From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of . . . Every city has its secrets. But none as terrible as this. He is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who has traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives in New Orleans as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Deucalion’s path will lead him to cool, tough police detective Carson O’Connor and her devoted partner, Michael Maddison, who are tracking the slayer but will soon discover signs of something far more terrifying: an entire race of killers who are much more–and less–than human and, deadliest of all, their deranged, near-immortal maker: Victor Helios–once known as Frankenstein.

Frankenstein

Author: Shelley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789356845138
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

Frankenstein: The Dead Town

Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0440423309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
Dean Koontz’s enthralling Frankenstein series has redefined the classic legend of infernal ambition and harrowing retribution for a new century and a new age. Now the master of suspense delivers an unforgettable novel that is at once a thrilling adventure in itself and a mesmerizing conclusion to his saga of the modern monsters among us. FRANKENSTEIN: THE DEAD TOWN The war against humanity is raging. As the small town of Rainbow Falls, Montana, comes under siege, scattered survivors come together to weather the onslaught of the creatures set loose upon the world. As they ready for battle against overwhelming odds, they will learn the full scope of Victor Frankenstein’s nihilistic plan to remake the future—and the terrifying reach of his shadowy, powerful supporters. Now the good will make their last, best stand. In a climax that will shatter every expectation, their destinies and the fate of humanity hang in the balance. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City.

Frankenstein's Monster

Author: Susan Heyboer O'Keefe
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 030771733X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
A gothic horror story that imagines what happens to Frnkenstein's monster after the death of his creator, Victor. What becomes of a monster without its maker? At the end of Mary Shelley’s classic novel, the creator dies but his creation still lives, cursed to a life of isolation and hatred. Frankenstein’s Monster continues the creature’s story as he’s compelled to discover his humanity, to escape the ship captain who vowed to the dying Frankenstein to hunt him down—and to resist the woman who would destroy them all. This is a tale of passion, revenge, violence, and madness—and the desperate search for meaning in an often meaningless world.

Frankenstein, based on the novel by Mary Shelley

Author: Nick Dear
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571277225
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 103

Book Description
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.

The Dead Town

Author: Dean Ray Koontz
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780007354023
Category : Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
Victor Helios is beyond any shot at redemption, consumed with the unbridled power of the act of creation, and the destructive possibilities that go with it. Deucalion, Frankenstein's original attempt at replicating life, must once again face the merciless consequences of Helios's actions as they are unleashed on an unsuspecting world.

Frankenstein: The Dead Town

Author: Dean Koontz
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553593684
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450