This Penguin Classic is performed by Colin Salmon best-known for starring in Resident Evil and Alien Vs Predator.

Mary Shelley's chilling gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near Lord Byron's villa on Lake Geneva.

It would become the world's most famous work of Gothic horror, and Frankenstein's monster an instantly-recognisable symbol of the limits of human creativity.

This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Maurice Hindle, read by Peter Noble.