Issuu has a posted a seven page preview of Warren Ellis’ latest Apparat graphic novella Frankenstein’s Womb.

1816 was called ‘The Year Without A Summer.’ In the weird darkness of that July’s volcanic winter, Mary Wollestonecraft Godwin began writing Frankenstein on the shore of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. But that is not where Frankenstein began. It began 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…

Sounds pretty interesting! Head on over to check out the preview. Written by Warren Ellis, with art by Marek Oleksicki, the book is released this Wednesday, 5th August, so expect this to appear in Hypergeek’s Hot Picks this week!

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