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Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein and his creation. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter, Frankenstein assembles a human being from stolen body parts but; upon bringing it to life, he recoils in horror at the creature's hideousness.

As a devastating hurricane approaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin to spin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests with Victor's first, failed attempt to build the perfect human. Deucalion's centuries-old history began as the original manifestation of a soulless vision - and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victor's malignant mind could have conceived.

The Ultimate Gothic Horror Collection is a fully indexed collection of classic gothic stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

In den eiskalten Raunächten 1929 bangen die Einwohner von Eisenhütt um ihr Überleben. Ein Wesen aus uralter Mythologie wird daher um Hilfe gebeten. Doch die sogenannte "Gehörnte" fordert dafür eine menschliche Seele. Niemand ahnt, dass das ausgewählte Mädchen damit eine große Bürde übernehmen wird. Theresia Bauer ist ein ganz besonderer Mensch. Sie ist vom "dunklen Engel" dazu auserwählt, die Waagschalen der Ewigkeit wieder ins Gleichgewicht zu bringen. Im Laufe ihres Lebens verblasst die Erinnerung an diese essenzielle Aufgabe aber immer mehr.