Frankenstein by Mary W. Shelley

This Halcyon Classics ebook Mary W. Shelley's classic horror novel, FRANKENSTEIN, OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS. FRANKENSTEIN begins on a ship sailing north of the Arctic Circle, where the captain spots a figure traveling across the ice on a dog sled. This is Victor Frankenstein's creature, and close behind is Dr. Frankenstein himself. Invited onto the boat, the weak and ill Doctor tells the story of his alchemical studies and eventual construction of a man from inanimate matter.