The Ultimate Frankenstein (Anthology)

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Publication: The Ultimate Frankenstein Publication Record # 209233 [Edit] Editors: Megan Miller, David Keller, Byron Preiss, John Betancourt
Date: 1991-10-00
ISBN: 0-440-50352-3 [978-0-440-50352-1] Publisher: Dell
Price: $10.00
Pages: viii+327
Format: tp?
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Container Title: The Ultimate Frankenstein • [The Ultimate] • (1991) • anthology by Megan Miller and David Keller and Byron Preiss and John Gregory Betancourt [as by Megan Miller and David Keller and Byron Preiss and John Betancourt] Cover: Bruce Jensen
Notes:
“October 1991”
First printing as per number line 10—1.
Cover artist is credited on the back cover.
“Illustrations by C.B. Mordan” on back cover; there is one sketch on each story’s title page
All stories are original to this edition except for the Vonnegut piece
$13.00 in Canada
OCLC 24425695

Contents (view Concise Listing)

The Ultimate Frankenstein • interior artwork by C. B. Mordan
1 • Introduction: The Lord’s Apprentice (The Ultimate Frankenstein) • essay by Isaac Asimov
9 • Near-Flesh • short story by Katherine Dunn
25 • Summertime Was Nearly Over • short story by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss] 39 • The Creature on the Couch • novelette by Michael Bishop
69 • Fortitude • (1968) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
89 • Monsters of the Midway • short story by Mike Resnick
95 • Dreams • short story by F. Paul Wilson
109 • Evil, Be My Good • (1990) • short story by Philip José Farmer
125 • A Writ of Habeas Corpus • short story by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
143 • The State Versus Adam Shelley • short story by Benjamin M. Schutz
157 • Chui Chai • short story by S. P. Somtow
175 • I, Monster • short story by Loren D. Estleman
189 • This Icy Region My Heart Encircles • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem
205 • Mad at the Academy • short story by Esther M. Friesner
221 • Last Call for the Sons of Shock • short story by David J. Schow
239 • Victor • short story by Karen Haber
249 • Part Five • novelette by Garfield Reeves-Stevens
271 • Frankie Baby • short story by Joyce Harrington
283 • Pity the Monsters • [Newford] • short story by Charles de Lint
301 • The Last Supper and a Falafel to Go • short story by George Alec Effinger
317 • Selected Filmography (The Ultimate Frankenstein) • essay by Leonard Wolf

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