Part One

Of Creatures and Monsters

“The Vampyre” (1819), John William Polidori

“Fragment” (1819), Lord Byron

Excerpt from Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein (1823), Richard Brinsley Peake

“The Monster Made by Man” (1825), Anonymous

Excerpt from The Mummy! (1827), Jane Webb

“Goblin Market” (1862), Christina Rossetti

Part Two

Byronic Heroes and Sympathetic Monsters

“Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman” (1826), Mary Shelley

“The Mortal Immortal” (1833), Mary Shelley

Excerpt from Wuthering Heights (1847), Emily Brontë

Excerpt from Mary Barton (1848), Elizabeth Gaskell

Excerpt from Great Expectations (1861), Charles Dickens

Excerpt from The Sport of the Gods (1902), Paul Laurence Dunbar

Part Three

Mad Science!!!

“The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” (1845), Edgar Allen Poe

Excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), Robert Louis Stevenson

“The Monster-Maker” (1887), W. C. Morrow

Excerpt from The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), H. G. Wells

“A Thousand Deaths” (1899), Jack London

“The Third Drug” (1908), Edith Nesbit

Part Four

From Automatons to Robots

“The New Frankenstein” (1838), Anonymous (attributed to William Maginn)

Excerpt from The Steam Man of the Prairies (1868), Edward S. Ellis

“The New Mother” (1882), Lucy Lane Clifford

“The Dancing Partner” (1893), Jerome K. Jerome

“A Wife Manufactured to Order” (1895), Alice W. Fuller

“The Lady Automaton” (1901), E. E. Kellett