1816 was called The Year Without A Summer. In the weird darkness of thatJulys volcanic winter Mary Wolfestonecraft Godwin began writing Frankensteinon the shore... » 

1816 was called The Year Without A Summer. In the weird darkness of thatJulys volcanic winter Mary Wolfestonecraft Godwin began writing Frankensteinon the shore of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. But that is not where Frankensteinbegan. It began a few months earlier when en route through Germany toSwitzerland Mary her future husband Percy Shelley and her stepsister ClairClairmont approached a strange castle. Castle Frankenstein some one hundredyears earlier had been home to Johann Conrad Dippel whose experimentsincluded the independent invention of nitroglycerin a distillation of theelixir of life and the transfer of a live soul into an awful accretion ofhuman body parts Mary never spoke of having entered the real CastleFrankenstein stark on its hilltop south of Darmstadt. But she did. And she wasnever the same again because something was haunting that tower and Mary metit there. Fear death and alchemy the modern age is created here in lostmoments in a ruined castle on a day never recorded. The newest addition toWarren Ellis Apparat line of original graphic novels has arrived Following upthe huge successes of Crecy and Aetheric Mechanics Ellis turns his spark ofmad genius to bring us a fantastical tale in this allnew original graphicnovel illustrated in atmospheric perfection by newcomer Marek Oleksicki. «