Lydgate

by Richard Bruce Clay

A novel that borrows characters from Frankenstein and Middlemarch. Some chapters are told in the words of Tertius Lydgate, here dissuaded from his disastrous marriage to Rosamond Vincy by news of a strange, gigantic human specimen, found frozen in the icy polar regions... Other chapters are told by Frankenstein's creation, defrosted and revived by Lydgate - and horrified at his own continued existence. The rest are told by the idealistic Dorothea Casaubon, determined to convince the creature of his value to Lydgate's researches, and by estate manager Caleb Garth, similarly determined to talk some of the German Romanticism out of the creature and replace it with a bit of plain English common sense...

194 pages, Paperback

Published November 27, 2020

About the author

Author of the novels 'She's Alone' (2006 - dystopian science fiction), 'Both' (2010 - thriller, supernatural), 'Kingswinford Sunset' (2015 - thriller, supernatural), 'Lydgate' (2020 - science fiction/historical), 'The Croviss Girls' (2024 - thriller/supernatural), the short story 'The Cold' (2012 - science fiction) and the narrative poem 'Grene Woddenesse' (published 2015 in The PoW-WoW Book of Ghost Stories under the name 'Alex Chaplain')

'She's Alone', 'The Cold' and 'Kingswinford Sunset' are available internationally on Amazon Kindle.

Paperback copies of 'Kingswinford Sunset', of 'The Croviss Girls' and of 'Lydgate' are for sale at Saturday Books in Dudley.

Now and again, he reads from his work, very often with music that's more than just 'accompaniment'.