Frankenstein-inspired fiction anthologies

Contents

The Ultimate Frankenstein, edited by Byron Preiss, David Keller, Megan Miller, John Betancourt; illustrated by C. B. Mordan; Introduction by Isaac Asimov. New York: Dell Publishing, 1991.

Isaac Asimov: INTRODUCTION: “The Lord's Apprentice”
Katherine Dunn: “Near-Flesh”
Brian Aldiss: “Summertime Was Nearly Over”
Michael Bishop: “The Creature on the Couch”
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: “Fortitude”
Mike Resnick: “Monsters of the Midway”
F. Paul Wilson: “Dreams”
Philip Joe Farmer: “Evil, Be My Good”
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro: “A Writ of Habeus Corpus”
Benjamin M. Schutz: “The State Versus Adam Shelley”
S.P. Somtow: “Chui Chai”
Loren D. Estleman: “I, Monster”
Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem: “The Icy Region My Heart Encircles”
Esther Friesner: “Mad At the Academy”
David J. Schow: “Last Call for the Sons of Shock”
Karen Haber: “Victor”
Garfield Reeves-Stevens: “Part Five”
Joyce Harrington: “Frankie Baby”
Charles De Lint: “Pity the Monsters”
George Alec Effinger: “The Last Supper and a Falafel to Go”
Leonard Wolf: Selected Filmography

In the Shadow of Frankenstein: Tales of the Modern Prometheus, edited by Stephen Jones, Foreword by Neil Gaiman. New York; London: Pegasus Books, 2016. xvii, 712 pp.

“Introduction: It’s Alive!” by Stephen Jones (1994)
1. Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (1831)
2. “A New Life” by Ramsey Campbell (1976)
3. “The Creator” by R. Chetwynd-Hayes (1978)
4. “Better Dead” by Basil Copper (1994)
5. “Creature Comforts” by Nancy Kilpatrick (1994)
6. “Mannikins of Horror” by Robert Bloch (1939)
7. “El Sueño de la Razón” by Daniel Fox (1994)
8. “Pithecanthropus Rejectus” by Manly Wade Wellman (1937)
9. “Tantamount to Murder” by John Brunner (1994)
10. “Last Train” by Guy N. Smith (1994)
11. The Hound of Frankenstein by Peter Tremayne (1977, novel)
12. “Mother of Invention” by Graham Masterton (1994)
13. “The Frankenstein Legacy” by Adrian Cole (1994)
14. “The Dead Line” by Dennis Etchison (1979)
15. “Poppi’s Monster” by Lisa Morton (1994)
16. “Undertow” by Karl Edward Wagner (1977)
17. “A Complete Woman” by Roberta Lannes (1994)
18. “Last Call for the Sons of Shock” by David J. Schow (1991)
19. “Chandira” by Brian Mooney (1994)
20. “Celebrity Frankenstein” by Stephen Volk (2012)
21. “Completist Heaven” by Kim Newman (1994)
22. “The Temptation of Dr. Stein” by Paul McAuley (1994)
23. “To Receive is Better” by Michael Marshall Smith (1994)
24. The Dead End by David Case (1969, novel)
25. “Frankenstein” by Jo Fletcher (1994, poem)
About the Editor
Acknowledgments and Credits

“Der Golem” (1847) [in German]
by Leopold Weisel,
with bibliography & links

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