The supernatural, unmissable new novel by the ALA Best Horror award nominee. In nineteenth-century Germany, one young man counts down the days until he can marry his beloved . . . until she is found brutally murdered, and the young man is accused of the crime.
Broken on the wheel and left for dead, he awakens on a lab table, transformed into an abomination. Friedrich must go far to take his revenge --only to find his tormentor, Victor Frankenstein, in league with the Marquis de Sade, creating something much more sinister deep in the mountains. Paranormal and gripping in the tradition of the best work of Stephen King and Justin Cronin, Monster is a gruesome parable of control and vengeance, and an ingenious tribute to one of literature's greatest

 

Boston-Based Author Dave Zeltserman's crime and horror novels include “Small Crimes”, “Pariah”, “Killer”, “Outsourced”, “The Caretaker Of Lorne Field”, “A Killer's Essence”, “Monster”, and “The Boy Who Killed Demons”, He's been published in seven languages.” Small Crimes” has been made into a Netflix Film Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Molly Parker, Gary Cole, Robert Forster, and Jacki Weaver. The Caretaker Of Lorne Field and Outsourced are currently in film development.

His books have been picked by “NPR”, “The Washington Post”, “American Library Association”, “Booklist”, and “WBUR” as best novels of the year, and his julius katz mystery stories has won a shamus, derringer and two ellery queen readers choice awards.

 

"Repudiating the 'outrageous fabrication' of Victor Frankenstein's story as told by Mary Shelley is the aim of this imaginative and grotesque novel from the revisionist perspective of the monster . . . Zeltserman's monster is every bit as eloquent as Shelley's, though his rage is more focused. This is juicy material for Franken-fans, and Zeltserman is just faithful enough to the original (he, too, ends with the fateful wedding night and the icebound ship) that his many fresh contributions feel entirely normal. Well, abnormal, to be accurate, but deliciously so." —— Starred Booklist Review