Publisher's Synopsis
While on summer holiday, Mina notices her friend Lucy is beginning to act strangely, expressing sensuous appetites considered shocking in late Victorian England. Mina soon learns the cause: recurring dreams of a sinister man ravishing Lucy in her sleep. But when Mina experiences these dreams too, and her own forbidden desires awaken, the women embark on an adventure of pleasure together-not realizing that their nocturnal seducer is Count Dracula, the Prince of Vampires.
A brilliant man of science consumed by the mystery of life, Victor Frankenstein is determined to 'correct' the failed human race by making a new one. He achieves his ambition and creates the New Adam. But his awakened creature, perfect in every other way, is lacking the one component Victor cannot replicate: the human conscience. Victor realizes his folly when his unrestrained creation, driven by an insatiable libido, turns against him.
Doctor Henry Jekyll discovers the formula that will divorce the evil side of the human creature from its better portion. Tempted to indulge his bodily appetites unfettered by moral restraint, Jekyll releases his inner demon: Mister Edward Hyde. But Jekyll learns that his repressed perversions go beyond the pursuit of sexual desires, as Hyde forces him to witness what depravities he commits in the guise of his unscrupulous alter-ego.
What might Bram Stoker, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Robert Louis Stevenson have written without Nineteenth Century mores inhibiting their pens? And what did they write to hint at sexual license lurking just beneath the surface of propriety and the printed page? Mina Harker's Diary explores the hidden eroticism of their famous novels, and that of six other classic horror stories of literature and cinema, to cast these familiar tales in a new and voluptuous light.
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