{"product_id":"my-name-was-never-frankenstein-and-other-classic-adventure-tales-remixed-9780253036353","title":"My Name Was Never Frankenstein: And Other Classic Adventure Tales Remixed","description":"\u003cp\u003eYou know the names and the stories, but you've never seen them like this before! \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy Name Was Never Frankenstein: And Other Classic Adventure Tales Reanimated\u003c\/i\u003e brings your favorite characters back to life in new and exciting escapades. In this inventive collection, a stellar cast of writers uses classic adventure tales as a launch pad for an eclectic mix of prequels, alternate universes, spin-offs, and total reboots. Imagine Ahab is shipwrecked on an island of cannibals, or Mr. Hyde tells his side of the story, or the scarecrow from Oz struggles with the mystery of his existence. By turns wry and haunting, \u003ci\u003eMy Name Was Never Frankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e upends old territory and classic characters to reclaim them for a new generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachel Brittain is an alumna of Vanderbilt University, but currently lives and writes in Arkansas. Her short film, \"The Delivery Girl,\" has been screened at film festivals in Los Angeles and New York, and her novelette, \"End of the World Talk Show,\" is forthcoming in \u003ci\u003eHyperion and Theia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Patton Chapman is the author of the novella \u003ci\u003eBell and Bargain \u003c\/i\u003efrom Rose Metal Press. Her short fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eDiagram\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Collagist\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePrick of the Spindle\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She lives in Durham, NC and teaches at Elon University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Czyzniejewski's most recent collection of stories is \u003ci\u003eI Will Love You For the Rest of My Life: Breakup Stories \u003c\/i\u003e(Curbside Splendor, 2015). He is an associate professor of English at Missouri State University, where he serves as Editor-in-Chief of \u003ci\u003eMoon City Review\u003c\/i\u003e and Managing and Literary Editor for Moon City Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTony Eprile's novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Persistence of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the Koret Jewish Book prize. His stories--several of which are literary homages--have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePloughshares, Agni, Story Quarterly, GlimmerTrain, Post Road\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He teaches fiction in Lesley University's low-residency graduate program.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKelcey Parker Ervick spent many summers visiting her grandparents in Barnegat, NJ, gazing out at Old Barney, the distinctive red and white lighthouse across the bay. Some of the details and journal entries in her story are taken from \u003ci\u003eWomen Who Kept the Lights: An Illustrated History of Female Lighthouse Keepers\u003c\/i\u003e by Mary Louise Clifford and J. Candace Clifford, which she found at her grandparents' house and \"borrowed\" with a promise to write a story one day. She lives in South Bend, Indiana, an hour away from Michigan City Lighthouse, where Harriet Colfax kept the light for 43 years. She is pretty sure women lighthouse keepers are the most adventurous of us all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKathleen Founds has worked at a nursing home, a phone bank, a South Texas middle school, and a Midwestern technical college specializing in truck-driving certificates. She got her undergraduate degree at Stanford and her MFA at Syracuse. She teaches social justice themed English classes at Cabrillo College in Watsonville, CA, and writes while her toddler is napping. Her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Sun, Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker Online, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's Internet Tendency\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalon \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Booth Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. Her novel-in-stories, \u003ci\u003eWhen Mystical Creatures Attack!\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2014 University of Iowa Press John Simmons Short Fiction Award and was named a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBryan Furuness\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Episodes of Revie Bryson, \u003c\/i\u003ea novel. With Michael Martone, he co-edited the anthology, \u003ci\u003eWinesburg, Indiana. \u003c\/i\u003eHis stories can be found in \u003ci\u003eNew Stories from the Midwest\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBest American Nonrequired Reading, \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere. He lives in Indianapolis, where he teaches at Butler University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMolly Gutman is an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Nevada, Reno. You can find her stories and poems in \u003ci\u003eBlack Warrior Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMid-American Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHayden's Ferry review \u003c\/i\u003eOnline\u003ci\u003e, Psychopomp Magazine, The Pinch, \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePam Houston is the author of two collections of linked short stories, \u003ci\u003eCowboys Are My Weakness\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWaltzing the Cat.\u003c\/i\u003e Her stories have been selected for the 1999 volumes of \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories, The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize\u003c\/i\u003e, and she is a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eO, the Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, Bark\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMore, \u003c\/i\u003eand many other periodicals. A collection of autobiographical essays, \u003ci\u003eA Little More About Me \u003c\/i\u003e(W.W. Norton), was published in 1999, and a novel, \u003ci\u003eSight Hound\u003c\/i\u003e (W.W. Norton) in 2005. Houston has edited a collection of fiction, nonfiction and poetry for Ecco Press called \u003ci\u003eWomen on Hunting\u003c\/i\u003e, and written the text for a book of photographs called \u003ci\u003eMen Before Ten A.M.\u003c\/i\u003e (Beyond Words, 1996). Her novel, \u003ci\u003eContents May Have Shifted, \u003c\/i\u003ewas released in 2012 by W.W. Norton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKirsty Logan is the author of short story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Rental Heart and Other Fairytales\u003c\/i\u003e, awarded the Polari First Book Prize and the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection, and debut novel \u003ci\u003eThe Gracekeepers, \u003c\/i\u003e awarded a Lambda Literary Award. Her most recent book, \u003ci\u003eA Portable Shelter\u003c\/i\u003e, is a collection of linked short stories inspired by Scottish folktales and was published in a limited edition with custom woodblock illustrations. Her next novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Gloaming\u003c\/i\u003e, is out in May 2018. She is currently working on a collection of short horror stories, a TV pilot script, and a musical collaboration project.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGregory Maguire is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eConfessions of an Ugly Stepsister\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLost\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMirror Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e; and the Wicked Years, a series that includes \u003ci\u003eWicked\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSon of a Witch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Lion Among Men\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOut of Oz\u003c\/i\u003e. Now a beloved classic, \u003ci\u003eWicked\u003c\/i\u003e is the basis for a blockbuster Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. Maguire has lectured on art, literature, and culture both at home and abroad. He lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorey Mesler has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including \u003ci\u003ePoetry, Gargoyle, Five Points, Good Poems American Places, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEsquire\/Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e. He has published 9 novels, 4 short story collections, and 5 full-length poetry collections, and a dozen chapbooks. His novel, \u003ci\u003eMemphis Movie\u003c\/i\u003e, attracted kind words from Ann Beattie, Peter Coyote, and William Hjorstberg, among others. He's been nominated for the Pushcart many times, and 2 of his poems were chosen for Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. With his wife he runs a 142 year-old bookstore in Memphis. He can be found at https: \/\/coreymesler.wordpress.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Poore is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eReincarnation Blues\u003c\/i\u003e (Del Rey, 2017) and \u003ci\u003eUp Jumps the Devil \u003c\/i\u003e(Ecco, 2012). His short work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eThe Year's Best Science Fiction \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012. \u003c\/i\u003eHe lives with his wife, poet Janine Harrison, and daughter Jianna, in Highland, IN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdward Porter's short fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGlimmer Train, The Hudson Review, The Gettysburg Review, Colorado Review, Booth, Barrelhouse, Catamaran, Best New American Voices\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a PhD from the University of Houston. He has been a Madison, Macdowell, and Stegner Fellow, and taught creative writing at Milllsaps College. Currently he is a Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318613774610,"sku":"9780253036353","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0c5d8ab4-e58b-451f-be7d-d8d7018b4ad2.jpg?v=1727559251","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-name-was-never-frankenstein-and-other-classic-adventure-tales-remixed-9780253036353","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}