.png)
Exciting News: Creature Wins the Shelley Finalist Award!
- Sea Crow Press
- Jan 5
- 1 min read
We’re thrilled to share that Creature: A Novel of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein by Amy Weldon, has been named a Shelley Finalist Award Winner in Historical Gothic Fiction by the Historical Fiction Company!
Weldon's inventive novel traces Mary Shelley’s extraordinary life, from her first spark of inspiration as a 19-year-old to the challenges of widowhood and motherhood, while intertwining the story of her iconic Creature. Blending historical realism, literary magic, and Gothic imagination, Creature offers a hauntingly beautiful exploration of creativity, grief, and the monsters we all confront.
In 2025, Creature won the Historical Fiction 5-Star Award for Highly Recommended.
About Creature
In 1816, a nineteen-year-old single mother wrote a book that transformed our vision of birth, bodies, and who we call "monsters." Creature: A Novel of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein is her story. From her first spark of inspiration to widowhood at age 24, through the deaths of four of her five children and her struggles to build a writing career, Creature braids Mary Shelley's little-known life journey with that of her most famous character: Victor Frankenstein's half-human Creature, who shadows her in alternating chapters as conscience, criminal, and friend. Traveling from London to Italy and into our own technological future, Creature blends historical realism and literary magic to show how a bookish, haunted girl learns to confront her monsters by bringing them to life.
Celebrate Mary Shelley’s story and her timeless legacy. Read Creature today!
