Originally published anonymously in 1818, Frankenstein is Mary Shelley's literary masterpiece. Despite initially generating mixed critical reviews, the novel became an almost instant popular success with Regency-era readers.
Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. P. Lovecraft, Jack London, Mary W. Shelley, Osamu Dazai & Nathaniel Hawthorne