Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A darkly luminous new anthology collecting the most terrifying horror stories by renowned female authors, presenting anew these forgotten classics to the modern reader. Readers are well aware that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein: few know how many other tales of terror she created. In addition to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote some surprisingly effective horror stories. The year after Little Women appeared, Louisa May Alcott published...

A scientist creates a man with body parts of corpses with monstrous results; inspired by his devious mentor, Dr. Frankenstein creates a bride for his monster; Dr. Frankenstein's son revives the monster only to discover that it is being controlled by a devious assistant; when Ygor brings the monster to Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein, the doctor tries to replace the monster's brain with a normal one; an evil scientist escapes from prison and encounters Dracula...

Blazing Saddles: A hilarious spoof of every western film cliche in which a black man is appointed sheriff of a frontier town in the Old West of 1874. High Anxiety: Dr. Richard Thorndyke arrives to take over as the new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, where he becomes very nervous to discover some suspicious goings-on. When he's framed for murder, Dr. Thorndyke must confront his own psychiatric condition, 'high anxiety,...