FIRST EDITIONS: FRANKENSTEIN – The Original 1818 Text – By Mary Shelley – Read by Scott Brick

Terrifying, unnerving, more dangerous than death, Victor Frankenstein’s monster has stalked the halls of English literature since its debut in 1818.  Birthed on the same stormy night that saw the debut of the romantic vampire in horror fiction, FRANKENSTEIN haunts our collective unconscious still. In this audiobook production that faithfully recreates Mary Shelley’s original text, you will hear the words that first frightened a generation of audiences, and has terrified their descendents ever since.

With bonus features that include Mary Shelley’s own words about what happened that stormy night in Geneva in 1816 when Lord Byron urged her to write a supernatural thriller, pages of text written in her own hand, and images of the monster as imagined in its early years, you and your whole family can sit back and experience ghost stories the way Shelley and her contemporaries did back in the 19th century: with a majestic and bloodcurdling tale, brilliantly told.

"Scott Brick isn't just a voice. He's a painter, bringing to life characters and places and situations that would otherwise lie flat on a page. He's painted every book I've done and I'm telling you, on more than one occasion, people have come up to me at signings and said they only picked up the book because Scott Brick read it." Brad Meltzer (BOOK OF LIES, IDENTITY CRISIS, JLA)

About Brick By Brick’s FIRST EDITION line:

The term “First Edition” in modern culture has expanded from the strict publishing definition to embrace something a bit more far-reaching. According to Merriam Webster’s dictionary, a first edition refers to the first published copies of a literary work printed from the same type and distributed at the same time.  Yet it’s the more evocative, more romantic connotation we choose to embrace at Brick by Brick Audiobooks.  

For us, First Editions are those classic pieces of literature that endure the test of time, yet are presented in their original form.  Whereas later editions may provide more modern translations, or a plethora of annotations that place the story in its proper historical context, we believe the first edition of any work of literature is its own proper context, that the form in which the author originally intended the story be told is the perfect way to experience it.  Therefore, Brick by Brick Audiobooks’ FIRST EDITION line will always strive to present, as closely as possible, the author’s original terminology. Our hope is that, when you hear the words as they were first read aloud in sitting rooms upon initial publication, you will thrill to them as did the piece’s very first audience, when these words reflected not an established masterpiece, but a dynamic and mesmerizing arrival upon the literary landscape.

About Scott Brick:

Audie Award-winning narrator Scott Brick has recently brought his favorite science fiction series, THE PHOENIX LEGACY trilogy, to the audiobook world, as well as three novels in THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT series (LORD FOUL'S BANE, THE ILLEARTH WAR, and FATAL REVENANT) and Charles Dickens's A CHRISTMAS CAROL (the latter on both MP3 and CD). Scott and Brick By Brick Audiobooks will soon release THE POWER THAT PRESERVES, the last book in Stephen R. Donaldson's first Thomas Covenant trilogy, and then DREAMER OF DUNE (Brian Herbert's biography of his father, DUNE author Frank Herbert).

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Production copyright 2009, Scott Brick Productions, LLC.

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"My wife is a doctor. When she wants to recommend another doctor unequivocally, she says, 'If my family member was sick, he'd be the doctor I would choose.' In a similar vein, when my publisher asks who I want to read my books for the audio version, I answer without hesitation: Scott Brick. He is simply the best narrator I know. I trust him with my novels -- and for me, that's no small thing." Harlan Coben (HOLD TIGHT, THE WOODS)

"Scott Brick is not only the voice of many of my own audiobooks, he's also the voice on many of the audiobooks I listen to. He brings a passion to his reading -- he really LIKES the books he's narrating, and it shows." Kevin Anderson (SANDWORMS OF DUNE, METAL SWARM)

"Scott Brick is a compelling and mesmerizing reader who makes our Pendergast novels come alive. We thought Pendergast was inimitable -- until Scott came along!" Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (THE BOOK OF THE DEAD)

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