This episode is brought to you by the Folio Society.

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They revisit our favourite stories and ask how they ought to feel through design, illustration and materials.

Frankenstein, the subject of this episode, is one of their carefully reimagined

titles. Frankenstein lives between fire and ice. It's about what happens when ambition outruns

restraint, when brilliance untetheres itself from responsibility. And two centuries on, it still has

that unsettling power.

From the cover to the introduction, the story is woven into every detail.

Deliberate, restrained, but quietly unsettling.

It's Frankenstein shaped with intention, holding its chill to the very last page and never quite thawing.

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slash the book club. That's folio, advancing towards me with superhuman speed.

I perceived, as the shape came nearer, sighted tremendous and abhorred, that it was the wretch whom I had created.

His countenance bespoke bitter anguish, combined with disdain and malignity, while its unearthly ugliness rendered it almost too horrible for human eyes.

But I scarcely observed this.

Rage and hatred had first deprived me of utterance, and I recovered only to overwhelm him

with words expressed of a furious detestation and contempt. Devil, I exclaimed, do you dare approach me?

And do not you fear the fierce vengeance of my arm, reeked on your miserable head? Begone, vile insect!

Or rather, stay that I may trample you to dust.

And oh, that I could with extinction of your miserable existence restore those victims

who you have so diabolically murdered.

I expected this reception, said the demon. All men hate the wretched. How then must I be hated, who am miserable

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