FRANKENSTEIN MEETS MOBY DICK: OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS MEETS...

“Call me Frankenstein.”1 mad scientist.2 nemeses.3 manly intimate friendships.Forbidden secrets of life, death, and reanimation.Hiding under the alias Ishmael, young Ernest secretly is the lost forgotten brother of the infamous Doctor Victor Frankenstein. He flees to the sea to escape the nemesis his sibling created from the graveyards of men. Yet unbeknownst to him, his closest sailing companion is the very creature assembled and abandoned, posing as the pagan cannibal harpooner Queequeg. Together they join the crew of the whaling ship Pequod and find themselves trapped under the command of the madly hell-bent Captain Ahab. They must join his obsessive voyage of vengeance upon the gigantic white whale Moby Dick.Victor’s monomanias drive him on a mission to destroy Queequeg, his rejected son. Queequeg’s journey is a startling counterpoint, conflicted by desires for love and destruction. Learning of Ernest’s true family, he plots upon the entire house of Frankenstein. He must either have a bride, or bitter revenge. Victor Frankenstein is the man who can provide both.Monsters collide as they rush towards their tragic destiny.Mary Shelly and Herman Melville join forces in an uproarious literary mashup of two classic thrillers. The choicest cuts of these classic original texts are skillfully intertwined by David Myriad, into an adventurous novel that reveals the horrifying, previously unseen connections between the two. A chilling epilogue by Mark Twain reveals the surprising conclusion to this enormous novel. The entertaining result combines the best of both worlds to create a new surprising vision, a hefty and satisfying read that transcends the sum of its parts. This is a delight for both literary scholars and horror fans, an exciting new exegesis of these influential masterpieces.

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