The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein (2018)
The novel retold by Elizabeth, the girl brought into the Frankenstein house to keep Victor company.
In the novel Elizabeth is mostly a person Victor fails to protect. Give her the story, and the Victor she describes is far more frightening.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the household, Victor, Henry Clerval, and the shape of the original plot.
Changes: who tells it. Elizabeth Lavenza narrates, and her survival depends on managing Victor.
Whose story is it?
Elizabeth’s.
How much time does it ask?
320 pages, for readers 12 and up. The ebook edition also includes the full text of Shelley’s novel.
Ember / Penguin Random House paperback, 8 October 2019, 320 pages. First published in 2018.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More Frankensteins: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics) · Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Oxford World’s Classics) · The Norton Critical Edition, third edition