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PublisherBritish Library, T.H.E.
ISBN-100712352848
ISBN-139780712352840
eBay Product ID (ePID)27038683264
Product Key Features
Book TitlePromethean Horrors : Classic Stories of Mad Science
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2020
TopicOccult & Supernatural, Horror, Science Fiction / Genetic Engineering
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorXavier Aldana Reyes
Book SeriesTales of the Weird Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight8.8 Oz
Item Length7.5 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2019-452853
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal808.838738
Table Of ContentIntroduction 1. The Sandman--E. T. A. Hoffmann--1816 2. The Mortal Immortal: A Tale--Mary Shelley--1833 3. Rappaccini's Daughter--Nathaniel Hawthorne--1844 4. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar--Edgar Allan Poe--1845 5. The Secret of the Scaffold--Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam--1883 6. The Body Snatcher--Robert Louis Stevenson--1884 7. The Blue Laboratory--L. T. Meade--1897 8. The Five Senses--E. Nesbit--1909 9. From Beyond--H. P. Lovecraft--1934 10. The Fly--George Langelaan--1957
SynopsisAs tragic antihero, hubristic maniac or sadistic villain, the mad scientist is as familiar to the Gothic literary tradition as the seductive vampire or evil monk. Assembled here are ten thrilling tales of literature's most brilliant and misguided minds; minds that strive for the unnatural secrets of immortality, artificial life and the teleportation of matter; minds that must eventually grapple with the bitter cost of their obsessions. From essential Gothic stories by Mary Shelley, E. T. A. Hoffmann and Edgar Allan Poe to later forays into the weird and psychedelic by E. Nesbit, H. P. Lovecraft and George Langelaan, the classic figure of the mad scientist is reanimated in these pages along with every untethered ambition and its calamitous consequences. Book jacket., It's alive! Spine-tingling tales of scientists gone mad. From the imaginations of Gothic short-story writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, and later weirdists such as H.P. Lovecraft came one of the most complex of villains--the mad scientist. Promethean Horrors presents some of the greatest mad scientists ever created, as each cautionary tale explores the consequences of pushing nature too far. These savants take many forms: there are malcontents who strive to create poisonous humans; technologists obsessed with genetic splicing; mesmerists interested in the way consciousness operates after death, and inventors who believe in a hidden reality. From essential Gothic stories by Mary Shelley, E. T. A. Hoffmann and Edgar Allan Poe to later forays into the weird and psychedelic by E. Nesbit, H. P. Lovecraft and George Langelaan, the classic figure of the mad scientist is reanimated in these pages along with every untethered ambition and its calamitous consequences., From the imaginations of Gothic short-story writers such as Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, and later weirdists such as H.P. Lovecraft came one of the most complex of villains--the mad scientist. Promethean Horrors presents some of the greatest mad scientists ever created, as each cautionary tale explores the consequences of pushing nature too far. These savants take many forms: there are malcontents who strive to create poisonous humans; technologists obsessed with genetic splicing; mesmerists interested in the way consciousness operates after death, and inventors who believe in a hidden reality. United by an unhealthy obsession with wanting to reach beyond their circumstances, these mad scientists are marked by their magical capacity to alter the present, a gift that always comes at a price.
LC Classification NumberPN6071.H727
