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Mary Shelley Victor Frankenstein and the monster Mary Shelley created still live, and the real horror is yet to come. ??? The design and purpose of this famous horror fiction have been seriously underrated for more than 180 years. Important opportunities to better understand and respond to a common and frequently harmful disorder are missed because the tools and demonstrations Shelley provides are ignored. Our business is to advertise the considerable unrecognized value to humanity that comes with the understanding of human conflict that Mary Shelley designed her frightening novel to develop. The many discrepancies or inconsistencies in the novel, which have been dismissed as errors or ignored as though unimportant, are not errors at all, but are design elements vital to the purpose proposed in the preface.???? The ways that the novel may be read differ so greatly that it is almost as though it is a book that can be read twice for the first time. The horror fiction or gothic tale reads front to back. The real horror and monsters appear as the book is read back to front and they will not go away. If you have read Frankenstein, here you may begin to see how differently it reads, when the preface is used to guide our understanding of? the novels design. Just click on the Frankenstein Exercise link below for a new way of reading the book at this site that can be useful and truly satisfying. Mary Shelleys exercise of untried resources of mind ?? In her introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley refers to the machinery of a story. The 1818 preface identifies several purposes the author has in mind and suggests that readers may have some difficulty with the novel as a result. If we examine the novel as though it were a machine and the preface as though it were an owners manual, many odd features of the novel make sense. Some parts of the novel we hardly notice or that dont make sense on the first reading are vital and, when set in motion, transform t