The Workshop of Filthy Creation
Winner, Best Horror in the 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award
Shortlisted for the 2022 Rubery Prize
Hardback / 270 pages
by Richard Gadz
In the autumn of 1879, an intelligent, artificially-created being—outwardly a young woman called Maria—arrives in London under the protection of biologist Professor George Hobson. Hobson gathers a few close friends and reveals her existence, explaining that she is the final result of a research programme undertaken by a dynasty of unethical scientists, the von Frakkens—all now dead.
Thrilling and evocative, fantastical and grotesque, The Workshop of Filthy Creation uses a Frankenstein-ian thread to stitch together elements of real scientific history with the darkest parts of Victorian London and speculation on the nature of human life.
‘Brings the squalor of Victorian London to life’ -Lisa Tuttle, The Guardian
‘Lives and thrives on the thrill of the narrative’ -Phantasmagoria Magazine
‘An instant classic’ -Horrorbound
Winner, Best Horror in the 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award
Shortlisted for the 2022 Rubery Prize
Hardback / 270 pages
by Richard Gadz
In the autumn of 1879, an intelligent, artificially-created being—outwardly a young woman called Maria—arrives in London under the protection of biologist Professor George Hobson. Hobson gathers a few close friends and reveals her existence, explaining that she is the final result of a research programme undertaken by a dynasty of unethical scientists, the von Frakkens—all now dead.
Thrilling and evocative, fantastical and grotesque, The Workshop of Filthy Creation uses a Frankenstein-ian thread to stitch together elements of real scientific history with the darkest parts of Victorian London and speculation on the nature of human life.
‘Brings the squalor of Victorian London to life’ -Lisa Tuttle, The Guardian
‘Lives and thrives on the thrill of the narrative’ -Phantasmagoria Magazine
‘An instant classic’ -Horrorbound
Winner, Best Horror in the 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award
Shortlisted for the 2022 Rubery Prize
Hardback / 270 pages
by Richard Gadz
In the autumn of 1879, an intelligent, artificially-created being—outwardly a young woman called Maria—arrives in London under the protection of biologist Professor George Hobson. Hobson gathers a few close friends and reveals her existence, explaining that she is the final result of a research programme undertaken by a dynasty of unethical scientists, the von Frakkens—all now dead.
Thrilling and evocative, fantastical and grotesque, The Workshop of Filthy Creation uses a Frankenstein-ian thread to stitch together elements of real scientific history with the darkest parts of Victorian London and speculation on the nature of human life.
‘Brings the squalor of Victorian London to life’ -Lisa Tuttle, The Guardian
‘Lives and thrives on the thrill of the narrative’ -Phantasmagoria Magazine
‘An instant classic’ -Horrorbound