Born Into Rejection

Originally by Mary Shelley

Reimagined from the vantage point of The Creature

"I did not ask to be made. I only asked to be loved."

Shelley gave the Creature a voice for three chapters. This novel gives him the entire story. From the moment of his bewildering birth through his self-education, his desperate attempts at connection, and his final descent into vengeance — this is the story of what happens when society creates something it refuses to love.

Pages

340

Print Price

$24.99

Kindle Price

$9.99

Genre

Gothic Literary Fiction

Why This Vantage Point

The Creature's chapters are already the most powerful in Frankenstein. Every reader remembers his plea: 'I am malicious because I am miserable.' This is the rare retelling where the source material practically demands expansion.

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The Original

"I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed."

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

The Reimagined — The Creature's Voice

The first thing I knew was cold. Not the word for it — I had no words yet — but the sensation of air on skin that had never felt air before. Then light, blinding and merciless. And then his face. My creator. My father, if that word means anything. He looked at me the way you might look at something dead on the road. In that first second of my existence, before I had a single memory or sin or thought, I learned the only lesson the world would ever teach me: I was wrong. Not wrong in what I did. Wrong in what I was.

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