CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/20/2017

SHIPPING NOW! ‘Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years’

Reviewed in such wildly disparate media as the New York Times Book Review, Horrorphilia and It’s Nice That—where Owen Pritchard cites an early review calling Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, “perhaps the foulest toadstool that has yet sprung up form the reeking dunghill of the present time”—Sir Christopher Frayling’s Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years is one of the most highly anticipated books on our fall list and one of our top Holiday Gift Books of 2017. Published on the bicentennial of Mary Shelley’s game-changing, genre-spanning novel, this sweeping survey includes everything from a facsimile reprint of the earliest-known manuscript version of the creation scene to Simpsons takeoffs to Third Reich propaganda images. Featured here is the September 1964 cover of Mad magazine by Norman Mingo, published the same month that The Munsters premiered on CBS television.