Gris Grimly’s Frankenstein (2013)
Shelley’s own words, lightly cut, as an illustrated graphic novel.
Keep Shelley’s sentences, trim them, and let some of the story happen in pictures without any words at all.
You want Shelley's own sentences, fewer of them, with pictures doing some of the telling.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: Shelley’s text, slightly abridged.
Changes: the pace. Some of Victor’s narration becomes sequences of largely wordless panels, drawn in Grimly’s gothic style.
Whose story is it?
Victor’s, then the creature’s, in Shelley’s words.
How much time does it ask?
208 pages, for readers 14 and up.
Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins, 27 August 2013, 208 pages.
Where to find it
Buy the hardcover — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Hardcover — 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