The Great God Pan

A young scientist builds a living man from corpses and then abandons him, with terrible consequences for both. Mary Shelley's novel is the starting point of sci-fi horror, here in a clean, carefully typeset edition.

Mary Shelley

A respected doctor drinks his own chemical formula and unleashes a second self with no conscience. Stevenson's short novel turns a lab experiment into one of the most famous monsters in fiction.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A shipwrecked man lands on an island where a banished surgeon carves animals into half-human creatures. Wells's novel is a classic of body horror and a hard look at science without limits.

H. G. Wells

A bandaged stranger arrives at a village inn, hiding the secret of a formula that made him invisible and slowly unhinged. Wells shows how a brilliant discovery can turn a man into a menace.

H. G. Wells

A medical student obsessed with defeating death injects fresh corpses with his serum, and every success is worse than the last. Lovecraft's six-part story is the ancestor of every zombie lab tale.

H. P. Lovecraft