Books like Frankenstein by Jason Cobley

1818 novel by Mary Shelley about young scientist Victor Frankenstein who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox experiment.

H. G. Wells’ classic tales the narrator builds a machine, journeys 800,000 years ahead to a seemingly utopian future that hides a savage underground society.

A brilliant scientist invents a serum that grants invisibility, but the experiment turns him into a paranoid, murderous figure.

A young governess in a remote estate discovers that the souls of two children are threatened by the malevolent ghosts of a former governess and her lover.

Horace Walpole’s 1764 novel, the first Gothic fiction, blends ancient romance with modern suspense through catastrophes, ghosts, and identity revelations set in an Italian castle, establishing the genre’s dark, sensational style.

In Dean Koontz’s novel, the indestructible Dr. Frankenstein’s legacy lives on as his clone Victor Helios threatens a Montana town with a new, stem‑cell powered race of monsters.

A graphic novel that reimagines Victor Frankenstein’s tale through a noir lens, featuring a tattooed immortal and a hard‑boiled detective battling a serial killer with a sinister creator.

Dean Koontz reimagines Mary Shelley’s classic, following Victor Helios and his creations as New Orleans teeters on the brink of disaster and a new, formidable monster threatens the future of humanity.

La novela en la que se basó la película *Invasión* de Oliver Hirschbiegel, con Nicole Kidman y Daniel Craig. Santa Mira, un pequeño pueblo del norte de California. El doctor Miles Bennell recibe en su consulta a varios pacientes con una dolencia que no puede tratar: todos ellos insisten en que un familiar cercano -su tío, padre, hija, marido…- no es en realidad quien parece ser. Intrigado y desconcertado, Miles recorre el pueblo en compañía de Becky, su viejo amor de juventud, y de sus amigos Jack y Theodora Belicec, comprobando que una serie de peculiares fenómenos tienen lugar en los sótanos y armarios de las casas, mientras los vecinos duermen… El psiquiatra Mannie Kaufman, al que Miles acude en busca de ayuda, le asegura que no se trata más que de un caso de histeria colectiva, pero poco a poco la verdad se impondrá con irresistible contundencia. *Los ladrones de cuerpos* ha inspirado cuatro producciones cinematográficas dirigidas por Don Siegel (1956), Philip Kaufman (1978), Abel Ferrara (1994) y Oliver Hirschbiegel (2007), que junto con la potente emoción que transmite la historia original cimentaron la fama intemporal de esta clásica novela de culto. «La paranoia alcanza su grado máximo» (Stephen King). «Una historia escalofriante» (The New York Times). «Jack Finney tuvo una idea espeluznante: durante el sueño, el centinela del sentido común se adormece y permite que nuestros enemigos nos invadan y nos conquisten» (Time Magazine). «Un clásico» (San Francisco Examiner).

A scientist in Geneva brings together parts of dead bodies to create a monster that gains consciousness, only to develop self-hatred and a fierce hatred of its creator.

A daring expedition aboard a mysterious submarine reveals scientific secrets and tension between discovery and secrecy.

A Victorian re‑imagining of the Frankenstein myth, pairing scientist Victor Frankenstein with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley as they confront creation, mortality, and moral responsibility in 19th‑century London.