Sea Crow Press Announces Creature: A Novel of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein

BOSTON - Feb. 25, 2025 - PRLog -- Sea Crow Press is delighted to announce Creature: A Novel of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein by Amy Weldon, available March 25, 2025.

About the Book
In 1816, a nineteen-year-old single mother wrote a book that transformed our vision of birth, bodies, and who we call "monsters." Creature: A Novel of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein is her story. From her first spark of inspiration to widowhood at age 24, through the deaths of four of her five children and her struggles to build a writing career, Creature braids Mary Shelley's little-known life journey with that of her most famous character: Victor Frankenstein's half-human Creature, who shadows her in alternating chapters as conscience, criminal, and friend. Traveling from London to Italy and into our own technological future, Creature blends historical realism and literary magic to show how a bookish, haunted girl learns to confront her monsters by bringing them to life.
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Advance Reviews
"While Shelley's most famous novel, Frankenstein, is known to many, Weldon here offers a brilliant illumination of Shelley herself. This is a captivating novel that not only brings the early 1800s to vivid life, but also makes us see Mary Shelley anew."
—Patrick Hicks author of The Commandant of Lubizec and Across the Lake

"Deeply researched and even more deeply felt, Weldon's Creature: A Novel of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein is a universe. The story travels through history, literature, and myth, and speaks across the centuries of love and death, gender and possibility, the mystery of family and the power of story. I was enthralled."
—Joe Wilkins, author of The Entire Sky and Fall Back Down When I Die

About the Author
Amy Weldon is Professor of English at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, where she teaches the study-abroad course "In Frankenstein's Footsteps: The Keats-Shelley Circle in London, Geneva, and Italy."

About the Press
Sea Crow Press is an independent book publisher based on Cape Cod.

Details
HISTORICAL FICTION | Paperback – $18.95 | Publication Date: March 2025 | ISBN:  978-1961864221 | Paperback | Dimensions: 5.25 x 8 | 378 Pages

FICTION / Historical / General
FICTION / Women
FICTION / Horror
FICTION / Romance / Historical / Regency
FICTION / Gothic

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