Monsters Collection 01

Four legendary tales of science, obsession, transformation, and terror become pieces of a larger story as Gatsis reimagines the foundational monsters of classic literature within a single shared world.Victor Frankenstein defies nature and creates life from death-only to recoil from the being he has brought into the world. Dr. Henry Jekyll searches for a means to separate humanity’s nobler instincts from its darkest impulses, unleashing the brutal Edward Hyde. A brilliant scientist discovers the secret of invisibility and learns that freedom from the eyes of society can also mean freedom from its restraints. And on a remote island, Doctor Moreau pushes experimentation beyond every boundary of morality, reshaping living creatures according to his own terrible vision of progress.But these are not isolated stories.Characters, discoveries, and consequences cross from one tale into another, revealing connections between experiments that were never meant to coexist. Familiar events take on new significance as the worlds of Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, and other foundations of Gothic and science-fiction literature are woven together into an expanding narrative.Written and illustrated by George Peter Gatsis, MONSTERS 01 brings together four complete graphic novels in one massive collection, combining faithful elements of the original literary classics with an ambitious new mythology that asks what might have happened if the great mad scientists-and the monsters they created-had inhabited the same world.The experiments have begun. The monsters are already among us. And their stories are only beginning to intersect.