Free Frankenstein Audiobook from Audible for Pandemic Listening

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Dan Stevens In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, Audible is stepping forward to serve all those closed schools, kids, and stay-at-homes with free access to a broad assortment of titles, mostly works in the public domain of classic literature, fable and fairy tales and children’s stories. One of them available without requiring a password or login is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, narrated by Dan Stevens of Downton Abbey fame.

The free audiobooks are available at stories.audible.com.

Other classics include the likes of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, narrated by Thandie Newton of Westworld, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Jack London’s Call of the Wild , Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and children’s titles like Winnie The Pooh. and Beatrix Potter stories.

The intent is for learning opportunities for younger folks, but while you’re at home waiting for the Covid-19 epidemic to pass by your door, why not read up on a few classics.

According to the Audible site: “For as long as schools are closed, we’re open. Starting right now, young and old everywhere you go can quickly stream an amazing selection of stories, including titles in six distinctive languages, that will assist them to go on dreaming, studying.”

All stories in five collections are free to stream to desktop, laptop, phone or tablet.

If you want to listen to Mary Shelley’s Secret Memoirs for a free trial with a signup if you’re new to audiobooks. Free with Trial at Audible.

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Posted on March 21, 2020

Mary Shelley Memoirs Author Interview at Witch Haunt

Frankenstein Castle Karloff Halloween Haunt The Horror Authors Witch Haunt blog recently featured an interview guest post with “Secret Memoirs of Mary Shelley: Frankenstein Diaries” co-author Michael January on the release of the audiobook narrated by Heidi Gregory on Audible, and just in time for Halloween, discussing how the book defies genre.

While the Secret Memoirs is not a horror book, Mary Shelley is the reputed “mother” of horror and with the founding of the origins of Frankenstein, suitably timely. The Frankenstein castle has in modern times become a major spot in the world for celebrating Halloween. While the spectral figures of witches and ghouls have been haunting the thick woods for millennia, making their appearances in Grimm’s Tales and Gothic legends and Romantic Tales of Terror, the tradition of parties with costumes on All Hallows eve didn’t really take hold in Germany until the arrival of American soldiers stationed there after the Second World War, who brought some of the home customs with them.

Defining the genre of the Secret Memoirs has been a bit of a challenge, as it takes a unique approach to the Mary Shelley biography, at the same time a novel and a look at history through the eyes of a real life participant in it. It is to quote, “a romantic adventure in the Regency Period of contemporary Jane Austin, a young adult coming of age story, a history of post–Revolution Napoleonic France and the London publishing world, a family drama of personal tragedy, and an exploration of the heart and mind of a young woman seeking a connection to the mother who died in giving her birth, and the creative formation of a young writer of genius accomplishment.” The audio format with the voice of Mary Shelley telling her own story is an especially intimate way to experience the young lives of Mary, Clair and Shelley as they lived them.

With the 200^th anniversary of the first publishing of Frankenstein, the book world has filled with myriad biographies about Mary Shelley, and her mother Mary Wollstonecraft, examining the girl who wrote Frankenstein and academic examinations, even a biopic movie, but none as intimate and personal, told in her own words and experiences as she lived them.

How much is fact or fiction in the Secret Memoirs is outlined elsewhere here on Frankenstein Diaries. The book itself, ebook, paperback or audio book can be found here.

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Review Quote from the Historical Novel Society: “An entertaining ‘collaboration’, exhaustively researched, skillfully adapted…long on memorable characters that will make readers see the seminal classic Frankenstein in a new light.” Historical Novel Society

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Posted on October 5, 2018

The Voice of Mary Shelley’s Memoirs

Heidi Gregory, the voice of Mary Shelley, hails from Hampshire on the South Coast of England where she enjoyed youthful days in the coastal countryside. With a Master’s Degree in History and a degree in Classics Literature, she was a natural choice for recording the speaking voice of Mary Shelley. Mary was born in London, but all her family were from the south and west of England and Heidi’s voice quality adds a natural, comfortable tone to the telling of her story. It was a love for the book of Frankenstein and fascination with its author which attracted Heidi to portraying her in “The Secret Memoirs of Mary Shelley”.

Hsidi Gregory Records the Voice of Mary Shelley Memoirs

A professional British voice artist consistently praised for excellent performances, Heidi records narration for television and radio commercials, webinars and corporate presentations as well as her work in audiobooks. She has recorded audiobooks of children’s classics including “Aesop’s Fables”, and “The Secret Garden” receiving high acclaim. Her recordings of Grimm’s Fairy Tales like “Little Red Riding Hood”, ”Rumpelstiltskin”, “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” and “Hansel & Gretel“ hold a special connection to the story of Mary Shelley, the daughter of London publishers of Children’s Literature in which she was steeped in her youth.

Heidi lives in Houston, Texas with her husband Darren and three young boys, but returns home to the South of England every summer with her family.

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