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Review: Dracula by Bram Stoker
Solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to assist Count Dracula in the purchase of a property in England; when he arrives, however, things are very different from what he expected. The locals seem fearful when he tells them where he is headed, and his journey there is strange and fraught with danger. When he arrives, he is welcomed by Count Dracula into his dilapidated castle — but Jonathan soon learns that getting out might be much harder than getting in. Back home in England, Jonathan’s fiancé, Mina, and her friend, Lucy, are beginning to worry about his lengthening silence. When a strange ship washes up into their harbour in the…
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Review: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Victor Frankenstein, an ambitious and ardent young science student, stumbles upon the secret of ‘bestowing animation upon lifeless matter’; rather than bringing him the glory he seeks, however, the discovery leads him down a dangerous path. In the testing of his theory, Frankenstein creates a creature assembled from parts of the deceased, and brings it to life, but he immediately feels horrified by the being he has created. To his relief, the creature soon vanishes. Betrayed by the rejection and embittered by his treatment at the hands of society, the creature seeks retribution, and as Victor’s life begins to fall apart, bit by bit, he is driven to extreme lengths…
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