Frankenstein: The Graphic Novel

Conceived as part of a literary game between friends in 1816, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is now considered a classic of 19th-century literature. The story begins with adventurer Robert Walton on a journey to save a man’s life at the North Pole. The man, Victor Frankenstein, tells Walton about his experiments in creating life and how he ended up at the North Pole. With this simple plot device, Shelley was able to address serious real-world issues such as acceptance, tolerance, and understanding, as well as the universal human need for companionship and love. The novel has, of course, inspired many films, from the 1931 classic starring Boris Karloff to Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein and, more recently, a series of novels by Dean Koontz. This version, while somewhat abridged, retains much of the original dialogue and remains true to Shelley’s brilliant vision.

Georges Bess, artist, comic book author and cartoonist, winner of numerous prestigious awards, after the impressive graphic novel "Dracula" turned to a work that is rightly considered another pillar of modern horror, as well as science fiction! This is an exquisite adaptation of Mary Shelley's world-famous classic work "Frankenstein", which shocked the world in 1818. The creator and the creation, the artificial creation of life... these themes are reinterpreted by each subsequent generation in its own way.

A stunning horror classic in an incredible graphic embodiment by Georges Bess.

Flipping page after page, absorbing every detail, readers are immersed in the mysterious and eerie world of Dr. Frankenstein's experiments, watching how the beautiful secrets of life, heaven and earth turn the existence of Victor himself and his Creation into horror in hopeless loneliness and darkness...