The Foundations of Fiction - Mad Scientists: Hear the stories that gave birth to the modern genre craze
About this audiobook
Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.
Success undoubtedly builds success and in literary terms we can more politely say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and the surest way to reach a hungry readership is to build on the fortune and flair of your literary colleagues.
In literary terms it seems you are never more than half a dozen stories away from a mad scientist. True or not it’s a given that they are amongst the most entertaining of protagonists and one of the go-to characters for authors down the ages.
In this volume we explore everything from the seemingly plausible to the obviously mad-cap and, of course, each narrative is driven by a character full of ideas but missing a button or two of common sense.
01 - Foundations of Fiction - Mad Scientists - An Introduction
2 - Herbert West - Re-Animator by H P Lovecraft
3 - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
4 - The Facts in the Case of Monsieur Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe
5 - Doctor Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne
6 - The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley
7 - A Thousand Deaths by Jack London
8 - A Diagnosis of Death by Ambrose Bierce
9 - Carnivorine by Lucy Hamilton Hooper
10 - Lost Hearts by M R James
11 - The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne
12 - The Blue Laboratory by L T Meade
13 - The Man Without a Body by Edward Page Mitchell
14 - The Moaning Lily by Emma Vane
15 - The Love Germ by Constance Cotterell
16 - Cool Air by H P Lovecraft
17 - The Freezing of London by Herbert C Ridout
18 - Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
