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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
AUG. 28, 2025 (PORTLAND, OR) — Mad Cave Studios is proud to announce the print edition of Comixology Original, MARY SHELLEY: THE ETERNAL DREAM—a stirring new edition, arriving in English for the first time. This expressively illustrated fictional account follows the life of Mary Shelley, the groundbreaking writer whose imagination birthed one of literature’s most enduring figures: Frankenstein’s monster, with cameos from Romantic-era artists and writers woven throughout.
Written by Naples native Alessandro Di Virgilio (BeccoGiallo, Star Comics, Noise Press) and illustrated by Manuela Santoni (Girl R-Evolution, Storie Proprio Buffe), with translation by Lucy Lenzi and editing by Stefano A. Cresti and Sarah Brunstad, Mary Shelley: The Eternal Dream blends biography and fiction in a haunting narrative told through the eyes of Shelley’s infamous creation.
The extraordinary life of the woman who created one of fiction’s most enduring characters: Frankenstein’s monster. Born at the turn of the 19th century to the famous philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft (forerunner of the feminist movement) and William Godwin (novelist and radical politician), Mary Shelley lived a life in constant flight from social conformity. Her struggle birthed a pop culture phenomenon. Now in print for the first time in English, Mary Shelley: The Eternal Dream chronicles Shelley’s relationships with other important artists and writers, including her eventual husband Percy Shelley, and the “butterfly effect” of love, hardship, tragedy, and inspiration that led to the creation of the infamous monster. |
