"Even now my heart fails within me when I recur to this rout of grim-visaged ideas."Mary Shelley was a genius ahead of her time. I love exploring her gothic tales; they're so masterfully crafted and fascinating. All three in this collection were wonderful and tragic.

This is a good little book: just three stories collected together, but they're all interesting.The first two are in the Gothic tradition: the title story, Transformation is a story of the squandering of youth's potential, of decadence and selfishness. A morality tale, but not overbearingly so. The scene of Guido on the desolate shore, meeting with the dwarf cast up from the stormy sea is very effective.The second story, The Mortal Immortal tells of the growing loneliness and despair felt by Winz...

I have arranged my takeaway thoughts into a haiku, though this is definitely one of those cases when I really wish I could have had just one more syllable at my disposal: "Pride in the momentDistorts, so that looking backYou're your own villain."

Another small book containing more short tales from Mary Shelley. I was reading something a while ago about the loss Mary suffered in her life, and her later works actually mirror her grief, notably in The Last Man and the collection of short stories in both The Pilgrims and here, in Transformation. Themes of loss, love, despair and sorrow are all too frequent in these books. She also had a heritage to live up to, both being the child of the radical philosopher William Godwin as well as the arch...

Mary Shelley is a wonderful storyteller with an exciting mind for horror. I'll personally make a point to read all of her work I can find.

Two fantastic short stories and one that was barely readable. The last story just faltered. Every time I thought we'd finally found a pace and was getting into the story, it would get bogged down in something that seemed irrelevant and ruined the flow. I've read the end three times and still can't discern what ultimately happened. But the first story was astounding and expertly crafted. The second was fantastic. It was the third that missed the mark.While Mary Shelley's "The Evil Eye" wasn't one...

This book contains three stories that vary greatly in standard. The first (and by far and away the best) of the stories is Transformation - this story is worth reading (I would rate this 4 star). The second, The Mortal Immortal, is interesting, but not a real page turner, I would rate this 3 stars. I found the last story, The Evil Eye, to be disappointing, I would only give this 1 star.

2.5 stars. I’ll be honest, I guess my expectations were a bit high. But I didn’t really like these that much. The last story was probably the best of all the three but none of them were particularly outstanding in my opinion. Regardless, pretty amazing that Mary Shelley managed stories such as this in a world that was dominated by male writers. That much is very impressive indeed.

Liked these stories. They reminded me of some of the Celtic fairy-tales.

I’ve been trying to find more of Mary Shelley’s stories and this collection was excellent. If there is one thing we can say about it is that she had a wild and quirky imagination. All three stories are well developed and have some interesting plot twists. ”He encontrado una cana. ¡Estúpido! ¿Me lamento por ello? Así es.” Si alguien sabe de alguna buena biografía de Mary Shelley, coméntenla. Entre más les daba vueltas a las tres historias de esta pequeña colección mas me abrumaba que todas tr...

I did wonder why the publishers decided to publish two such short short story collections instead of combing them into one reasonable sized books. I must say I prefered the stories in the Pilgrims, if only for having more women characters. I enjoyed the first two stories which were nice melancohly gothic tales but not so much the third which was more of a standard historical story. The first story as about a man who swapped bodies with a hideous dward, the second about a man who had unwittingly

This collection brings together three little-known short stories by Mary Shelley, the revered author of Frankenstein. Each is a fantastic example of her writing prowess, and the ways in which she pioneered the science-fiction and horror genres.The title story, Transformation, draws on classic fables and the work of Shakespeare to create a brilliantly timeless and evocative moral tale. In it, we follow a man, spurned by his great love and exiled from his homeland, who makes a deal with a strange,...

Dear Mary, I gave you a second chance, but it is blatantly obvious that, alas, this is not working out. It's not you - it's me.

Beautiful prose, creepy beautiful

Mary Shelley is best known for "Frankenstein" and, to a lesser extent, her end-of-days novel "The Last Man". However, apart from a number of other novels, she also wrote several short stories, often with a supernatural or fantastic theme. Three of these are included in this attractive paperback edition published by Hesperus Classics. The title piece - "Transformation" - describes the narrator's Faustian pact with a devilish dwarf, and is rich in Gothic tropes. "The Mortal Immortal" features a ha...

Byron had been dead for I think seven years and Mary Shelley said to herself "I do miss that freaky son of a bitch" and she sat down and wrote this

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I spotted the slim Alma 101 edition of Mary Shelley's Transformation and Other Stories in the library. I was unaware of these tales beforehand, and thus wrestled the tiny book out from the very packed-full shelf accordingly. I adore Frankenstein, and have been so keen to pick up more of Shelley's work for years, but rarely find it.The three stories collected here are great. They are science-fiction-esque; normally, this is a genre which I do not enjoy, but Shelley does it so well. Her tales are

I picked this up in a swap at my local used bookstore. I'd never heard of these short stories so I was intrigued. They really weren't developed and never rose to the exquisite beauty of Frankenstein. Transformation (1831) was a kind of simplistic morality tale, though I did enjoy her comparing the noise of the sea to kids getting out of school: "What a noise this ocean makes. Schoolboys bursting from their prison are not louder than these waves set free" (p. 14). Things never change. The Mortal

**spoilers**I was expecting three first-rate tales to enjoy by candlelight on a cold winter's night. As I read, I remembered that Shelley wrote before the advent of the full-blown Victorian ghost story, with all its atmospheric trappings. These tales are in the mode of Horace Walpole and the "gothic" weirdness of pre-Victorian literature. Think of them as dark Romantic. They aren't Frankenstein, but, if read in the right spirit, they are enjoyable.They include some wonderful set-pieces, like the...