Frankenstein 2025 edition

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This edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, with Bernie Wrightson’s art, is the largest, most luxurious, and exquisitely printed edition ever published. Designed especially for discerning Wrightson collectors, this edition is a sturdy hardback with black cloth boards, a dustjacket, and a matching slipcase. Measuring 11 × 15½ inches and weighing nearly eight pounds, it includes Wrightson’s finished and unfinished illustrations painstakingly reproduced from multiple sources — original art, archived scans, and rare publications, including fanzines.
       This unique edition includes a gallery of Frankenstein-inspired art, some in color, encompassing forty-eight pages. It includes a seven-page story, “The Muck Monster,” and also a three-page story, a collaboration with Vaughn Bode. Drawn to Shelley’s Frankenstein, Wrightson’s interest began in his early teens and never flagged — Dr. Frankenstein’s monster was his lifelong obsession.
       The book includes two non-fiction pieces: Lillian Hochwender’s essay on Mary Shelley and Bernie Wrightson, and George Beahm’s biographical profile on Wrightson.
       This sumptuous edition of Shelley’s timeless masterpiece is graced with Wrightson’s art that stands head and shoulders above the rest.

• Limited to 750 signed copies.

• Signed by George Beahm with facsimile signatures by Bernie Wrightson and Mary Shelley.

• Introduction by Stephen King.

• Full cloth binding with top-edge stain and ribbon marker.

• Printed on Mohawk Superfine.

• Illustrated endpapers.

• Wraparound dustjacket.

• Cloth slipcase.

• Book size is 11 × 15½ inches.

• Number of pages: 352.

• Published December 2024.

other editions of Frankenstein by Centipede Press:

2006 Frankenstein (gothic series) / deluxe variant

2007 Frankenstein / deluxe variant

 2011 The Agonizing Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein / deluxe variant

2016 Frankenstein Unbound