The origins of the 'mad scientist' character in fiction, with introduction and notes, given across a series of stories including work by Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Mary Shelley From the imaginations of Gothic short-story writers such as Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley and H.P. Lovecraft came one of the most complex of villains - the mad scientist. Promethean Horrors presents some of the greatest mad scientists ever created, as each cautionary tale explores the consequences of pushing nature too far.
