AfterShock Comics has a new series kicking off this spring that has me hugely excited with Mary Shelley: Monster Hunter. The new book comes from writers Adam Glass and Olivia Cuartero-Briggs, which is exciting enough, but they’re working with artist Hayden Sherman that has blown me away the last few years with his projects, including the recent Cold War series from AfterShock. The series is set for an April 17th, 2019 debut priced at $3.99 per issue.
“How could a twenty-year-old woman write the most famous horror work of all time? Easy, she actually lived it,” said writer Adam Glass. “I’m excited for everyone to see who Mary really was. Olivia and I did extensive research on the mother of modern horror and she was way ahead of her time, a true feminist pioneer.”
Plot Concept: For nearly two centuries, scholars have wondered how on earth Mary Shelley, a nineteen-year-old girl, was able to conjure one of the most frightening and enduring horror stories of all-time: Frankenstein.
But with the recent discovery of Mary Shelley’s secret memoir, the truth is finally revealed: Mary Shelley didn’t just write Frankenstein, she lived it. Traveling back to that historic Geneva winter of 1816, Mary, her fiancé Percy, sisters Claire and Fanny, and the celebrated poet Lord Byron, find themselves guests of the eerie Frankenstein Estate. The macabre and frightening events that follow lead Mary to both a gruesome and shocking discovery. Their mysterious host is not at all what they expected, and their intentions will change the course of Mary’s life forever.
