Frankenstein Art Novel™

Product Description

For admirers of Gothic shadow and Romantic intensity, Mary Shelley’s timeless masterpiece is reimagined in a form as haunting as the tale itself. Electrified Oak (2023) by artist Sam Gulliver ignites the opening, a cyanotype that channels lightning through timber and blurs the fragile boundary between nature and machine. This striking work is one of more than sixty bespoke fine artworks created by twelve diverse artists exclusively for this edition, each transforming the novel into a curated gallery. Hand sewn pages honor the craft of bookmaking, while annotations invite both the contemporary reader and the devoted classicist to linger over Shelley’s text with renewed insight. Designed and made in the United States by an independent book design team, this Art Novel is as much an object of beauty as it is a literary achievement. Frankenstein challenged readers to confront the moral dilemmas of science, ambition, and exile. This edition carries forward that tradition, illuminating the quest for knowledge, the power of nature, the role of women in a changing world, and the defiance and longing of those cast to society’s edges. It is Mary Shelley’s tale of life and death reborn, a meditation on humanity’s fragile balance between creation and destruction. Custom end leaves design by artist Abby Olsen.