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• vii • Introduction (Frankenstein) • (1985) • essay by Maurice Hindle
• xliv • Note on the Text (Frankenstein) • essay by uncredited
• xlix • Suggested Further Reading (Frankenstein) • essay by uncredited (variant of Suggested Further Reading (Bibliography on Frankenstein and Mary Shelley) 1985)
• liii • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: A Chronology • (1985) • essay by uncredited
• 1 •  Frankenstein • [Frankenstein] • interior artwork by uncredited
• 5 • Author's Introduction to the Standard Novels Edition (1831) • (1992) • essay by Mary Shelley (variant of Introduction (Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus) 1831)
• 11 • Preface (by P. B. Shelley, 1818) (Frankenstein) • (1992) • essay by Percy Bysshe Shelley (variant of Preface (Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus) 1818) [as by P. B. Shelley]
• 13 • Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus • [Frankenstein] • (1818) • novel by Mary Shelley
• 217 • Appendix A: Select Collation of the Texts of 1831 and 1818 (Frankenstein) • [Frankenstein] • (1992) • short fiction by Mary Shelley
• 227 • Appendix B: 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron • (1992) • short story by Lord George Gordon Byron (variant of Fragment of a Novel 1819) [as by Lord Byron]
• 233 • Appendix C: 'The Vampyre: A Tale' by Dr. John William Polidori • [Lord Ruthven] • (1992) • novelette by Dr. John William Polidori (variant of The Vampyre: A Tale 1819)
• 256 • Notes (Frankenstein) • (1985) • essay by Maurice Hindle