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Based on the original motion picture Frankenstein, some of the best-known authors of the fantastic and the mysterious explore the legend of Mary Shelley's classic monster.

From Brian Aldiss's eerie look at a mysterious creature hidden for centuries, to S.P. Somtow's tale of passion and dismemberment in Thailand, to Katherine Dunn's examination of a bizarre affair--here are spectacular new Frankenstein stories transcending time and place.

Table of Contents:

• 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
• 39 - The Creature on the Couch - novelette by Michael Bishop
• 69 - Fortitude - 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 - 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 Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic 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

Some of the world's best-known authors of the fantastic and the mysterious explore the classic legend of the werewolf.

From Mel Gilden's gripping fable of a small town with werewolf fever, to Nancy Collins's tale of a young boy unaware of the evil within him, to Stuart Kaminsky's wolfman in Moscow--here are spectacular new werewolf stories transcending time and place.

Table of Contents:

• The Ultimate Werewolf - interior artwork by Michael David Biegel
• 1 - Crying "Wolf!" - essay by Harlan Ellison
• 7 - Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W - (1974) - novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 49 - Wolf, Iron, and Moth - short story by Philip José Farmer?
• 63 - Angels' Moon - short story by Kathe Koja
• 75 - Unleashed - short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• 91 - The Mark of the Beast - short story by Kim Antieau
• 107 - At War with the Wolf Man - short story by Jerome Charyn
• 119 - Day of the Wolf - short story by Craig Shaw Gardner
• 135 - Moonlight on the Gazebo - short story by Mel Gilden
• 151 - Raymond - short story by Nancy A. Collins
• 167 - There's a Wolf in My Time Machine - [Svetz] - (1971) - short story by Larry Niven
• 187 - South of Oregon City - novelette by Pat Murphy
• 213 - Special Makeup - short story by Kevin J. Anderson
• 227 - Pure Silver - novelette by A. C. Crispin and Kathleen O'Malley
• 249 - Close Shave - short story by Brad Linaweaver
• 263 - Partners - short story by Robert J. Randisi
• 277 - Ancient Evil - short story by Bill Pronzini
• 291 - And the Moon Shines Full and Bright - short story by Brad Strickland
• 311 - Full Moon Over Moscow - short story by Stuart M. Kaminsky
• 327 - Wolf Watch - short story by Robert Weinberg [as by Robert E. Weinberg]
• 341 - The Werewolf Gambit - (1957) - short story by Robert Silverberg
• 349 - Selected Filmography (The Ultimate Werewolf) - essay by Leonard Wolf