Promethean Horror: Classic Tales of Mad Science

As tragic antiero, hubristic maniac or sadistic villain, the mad science 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, artifical 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 psychadelic by E. Nesbit, H. P. Lovecraft and George Langelann, the classic figure of the mad scientists is reanimated in these pages along with untethered ambition and its calamitous consequences.

Xavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University and a member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. He has edited Horror: A Literary History for British Library Publishing, along with collections of stories by Algernon Blackwood, William Hope Hodgson and H. P. Lovecraft.

Format: Paperback, 272 pages
ISBN: 9780712352840
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Published: 19 September, 2019
Weight: 250 g
Dimensions: 187 x 127 x 20 mm

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