Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus (Version 4)

LibriVox recording of Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus (Version 4) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read in English by John Van Stan This is a classic (gothic) horror story, and one of the earliest examples of science fiction. The main characters are Dr. Frankenstein and his creation, the daemon. Shelley called the scientist a "pale student of unhallowed arts" and his creation a "hideous phantasm of a man." This story is not only delightfully frightful, but arguably represents one of the clearest criticisms of science during a time when, like the daemon, it was leaving its own infancy an