1816 was called "The Year Without A Summer." In the weird darkness of that
July's volcanic winter, Mary Wolfestonecraft Godwin began writing
Frankenstein on the shore of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. But that is not
where Frankenstein began. It began a few months earlier when, en route
through Germany to Switzerland, Mary, her future husband Percy Shelley, and her
stepsister Clair Clairmont approached a strange castle. Castle Frankenstein,
some one hundred years earlier, had been home to Johann Conrad Dippel, whose
experiments included the independent invention of nitroglycerin, a distillation
of the elixir of life - and the transfer of a live soul into an awful
accretion of human body parts! Mary never spoke of having entered the real
Castle Frankenstein, stark on its hilltop south of Darmstadt. But she did. And
she was never the same again - because something was haunting that tower,
and Mary met it there. Fear, death, and alchemy - the modern age is
created here, in lost moments in a ruined castle on a day never recorded.
The newest addition to Warren Ellis' Apparat line of original graphic
novels has arrived! Following up the huge successes of Crecy and
Aetheric Mechanics, Ellis turns his spark of mad genius to bring us a
fantastical tale in this all-new original graphic novel illustrated in
atmospheric perfection by newcomer Marek Oleksicki.
