Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy award-winning director Guillermo del Toro.
MARY SHELLEY was born in London in 1797, daughter of William Godwin
and Mary Wollstonecraft, famous radical writers of the day. In 1814
she met and soon fell in love with the then-unknown Percy Bysshe
Shelley. In December 1816, after Shelley's first wife committed
suicide, Mary and Percy married. They lived in Italy from 1818
until 1822, when Shelley drowned, whereupon Mary returned to London
to live as a professional writer of novels, stories, and essays
until her death in 1851.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO is a Mexican director, producer, screenwriter,
novelist, and designer. He both cofounded the Guadalajara
International Film Festival and formed his own production
company-the Tequila Gang. However, he is most recognized for his
Academy Award-winning film, Pan's Labyrinth, and the Hellboy film
franchise. He has received Nebula and Hugo awards, was nominated
for a Bram Stoker Award, and is an avid collector and student of
arcane memorabilia and weird fiction.
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA is the author of the bestselling novel The
Historian. She graduated from Yale and holds an MFA from the
University of Michigan.
Praise for Penguin Horror Classics:
“The new Penguin Horror editions, selected by Guillermo del Toro,
feature some of the best art-direction (by Paul Buckley) I've seen
in a cover in quite some time.” – Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
"Each cover does a pretty spectacular job of evoking the mood of
the title in bold, screenprint-style iconography." – Dan Solomon,
Fast Company
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