“What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.”

Introduction http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1/intro.html to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein

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English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, … 1797–1851

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