Description: "An entertaining and bracingly intelligent yarn." -- The New York Times Book Review "Most satisfying. . . . This fast-paced, most readable novel is charged with electricity and enchanting mischief." -- The Los Angeles Times "A rousing page turner. From its opening . . . to its last, gasp-inducing page, Ackroyd has imbued his book with enough 'electrical fluid' to animate a corpse." -- The Boston Globe "[ The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein ] will enhance your knowledge of the original version, and it may give you nightmares. . . . A tale told again and again, it still casts a spell." -- The Seattle Times "The novel has a subtle texture, swift prose, and the author's customary panache. . . . Ackroyd offers some tasty literary, biographical, historical and geographical snacks. . . . Casebook is partly about narrative itself, about points of view and the protean nature of truth." -- The Plain Dealer "A tribute to one of the great Gothic stories of all time. . . . [A] surprise ending . . . makes the reader reconsider the entire plot. It's a fascinating twist, updating the Frankenstein legend with a spritz of Freud." -- The Dallas Morning News "Acclaimed novelist and biographer Ackroyd has reimagined Shelley's book--and incorporated some real-life characters into the retelling. . . . It's not until the final pages of the novel that we learn the disturbing truth behind the experiments." -- The New York Post "Finely done. . . . With a few spooky grace notes." -- Austin American-Statesman "A modern retelling that intelligently restores the story's relevance. . . . It's the meaningfulness that Ackroyd has brought back to life that matters." -- San-Antonio Express News "Ackroyd's writing style and attention to detail complements Mary Shelley's classic novel and fuels an utterly believable vision. . . . This captivating tale would work in its own right, or read as a companion piece to amplify the themes and questions raised in Shelley's." -- Newark Star-Ledger "Thrilling. . . . Mary Shelley's Frankenstein gets a revamp with Ackroyd's new work." -- Northern Virginia Magazine "Explosive. . . . Richly chronicled. . . . Percy Bysshe Shelley pulses with vitality and idealism and creation." --Bookreporter.com "Ackroyd loves taking what we, the general reading public, think we know about great writers, only to twist that knowledge into new fictional shapes. . . He is the great pretzel-baker of contemporary fiction. And this is one of his tastiest, and twistiest, products so far." -- Financial Times [UK] "A brilliant jeu d'esprit. . . . Fiendishly clever. . . . The background is meticulously researched, with fascinating incidental detail." -- Daily Telegraph [UK] "Peter Akcroyd's new novel works on so many levels, it's difficult to know where to begin. As pacy thriller, it delivers assured, edge-of-seat, action. As historical fiction, it abounds in authentic detail. . . . As homage to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , it brings both invention and wit." -- London Evening Standard [UK]

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